WOW! Around 3:45am I was sitting on my back porch step and a spectacular burn of blue streaked from east to west just below Orion. It was about the width of a pencil and lasted about 4 seconds. Anyone else see this??

Quite by accident, I stumbled across an article in National Geographic about the annual Taurid meteor shower having unusually high numbers of fireballs this year. This shower runs from early to mid-November, which likely makes the meteor this observer saw one of those. The fact that it was seen near Orion, at about 3:45am, it's apparently remarkable brilliance, all make me think this is one of those Taurid "fireball" meteors referenced in the NG article.

Read the whole article at the link below:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1104_051104_fireballs.html

At this same time when this post was orginally posted, my mom came home from the store and she said she saw a blueish/orange object streak across the sky that was real bright. A few days later, I heard about these meteorites.

Polish Fireball Network ( amatours) started to collect daily data from
obserwation stations in few citys is Poland

one of the last great picture is in attachment or in the link here to see
http://pfn.pkim.org/files/foto/-15pfn.jpg

you can see ewery day results of thier work on this web page
http://pfn.pkim.org/?q=pl/node/73

If you are interesting in they work for more informations write to Arkadiusz
nospam____olech@camk.edu.pl

There are many Polish meteor network stations and they do fascinating and admirable work. I wish that clubs within the US had a similar network of sorts, but I also realize that it would be difficult to find enough dedicated people to do an effective job. Oh, well!

OH! Jon, remember that meteorites are what remain from a bright meteor AFTER the material has landed. There are distinctions between meteoroids (particles in space that MAY become meteors), meteors (objects that enter the atmosphere and ionize air molecules to glow brightly), and meteorites that fall to the ground.