Tiny Fireballs May One Day Reveal Unseen Asteroids

image courtesy of Howard Edin, Oklahoma City Astronomy Club

as Nola Taylor Redd wrote for EOS “The longtime unsolved problem is that nobody knows when and where hazardous objects might impact the Earth. By using meteor science, we may be able to make a guess.”

The tiny fireball that flew over Japan in 2017 came from an asteroid that could threaten Earth in 10 million years or so. Scientists are trying to use these little meteors to hunt larger objects. READ MORE