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With so many bright fireballs lately, what's going on? (www.theweathernetwork.com)
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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

there is no way to know, for sure, about what is happening, simply due to a lack of records for comparison.

tl;dr: we don't know exactly why, but there's more this year, they're bigger, and more are reported (that probably due to more cameras and ease of reporting). Probably just a bumper crop this year.