SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -A fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of-3 or brighter when seen at the observer’s zenith. Objects causing fireball events can exceed one meter in size.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fireballs can develop two types of trails behind them: trains and smoke trails. A train is a glowing trail of ionized and excited air molecules left behind after the passage of the meteor. Most trains last only a few seconds, but on rare occasions a train may last up to several minutes.

Detailed explanation-3: -About one meteor in every thousand is seen to be brighter than the planet Venus. These are known as ‘fireballs’ and are generally associated with larger (centimetre sized) meteoroids which may survive their passage through the atmosphere to land on the Earth as meteorites.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fireballs signify that sickness or death or an epidemic or something is coming. A fireball is more of a sign of a sickness coming to the community or to the area, because they go all over. Indians see them on the lakes, they see them along prairies, and they see them in big fields.