Did You See the Meteor? Fill Out the Fireball Report!

Great balls of fire!

Did you know there was an official form for meteor sightings?

If you saw the big fireball streaking across the sky Oct. 17, you, too, can be a citizen scientist and record your data point on a form maintained by the American Meteor Society.

The society is for both amateur and professional astronomers, and the data you report is helpful, the society says.

"Your report is important, it alerts us to potentially scientifically significant events that occur, and contributes to the general database of knowledge about meteors."

See what volunteer website manager Mike Hankey gathered within a few hours of the meteor sighting, including an interactive map of the reports.

 

Share, in the comments below, what you thought you were seeing and where you were.

 

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