A bright meteor is called a fireball. This one creates a backdrop to clouds of smoke from an actual fire that – as of Saturday – had burned some 9,000 acres and was only 10% contained, according to Inciweb. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-fireball-bighorn-fire-tuscon-june-2020…
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2017 meteor was a ‘grazing fireball’
A team of researchers at Curtin University in Australia reports that a meteor that streaked across the Australian sky back in 2017 was a rare “grazing fireball.” The group has written a paper describing their observations and findings and have posted it on the arXiv preprint server. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-meteor-grazing-fireball.html…