NEO: Fireball Detection Counts

	Started checking NASA's All Sky Fireball Network on Jan 20, 2017. It has detected 43,377 fireballs since that day. Most fireballs on one night? (559 - on 12/14/17) - the nightly median is 8. In the past 30 days there have been 274 fireballs detected.		current moon

8/21/26

9/19/26

8 fireballs detected last night.
  7 - sporadics (or untraceable)
  1 - September epsilon Perseid

Today there are:
  6 potentially active meteor showers.
  1 is a Major Meteor Shower. (☄)
  2 are near the predicted maximum. (✨)

     · Orionid ☄
     · September epsilon Perseid
     · Southern Taurid
     · September iota Cassiopeiid
     · September pi Orionid ✨
     · nu Eridanid ✨

Current numbers to ponder:
17,605 Near Earth Objects are currently being tracked.
     111 of those are Comets.
17,494 are Asteroids (and one Tesla Roadster).
            7,913 of these Near Earth Asteroids are 140 meters or larger.
               840 are larger than 1 kilometer.

           Of the Near Earth Asteroids:
           1,828 are considered Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.

In the NEO News:
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day