Green Fireball

“Goodness, Gracious, Green Balls Of Fire!”, might have been an appropriate theme song title for the 1998 Leonid meteor shower . Many observers , like astrophotographer Steve Dunn watching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, reported that a lot of the characteristically bright Leonid meteors had a greenish tint. Around 6:00 AM EST on November 17, he photographed this dazzling Leonid fireball leaving a striking green-to-white trail against a background of stars in the constellation Coma Berenices . Dunn comments that he considers himself a green novice observer, but is now anticipating next November's appearance of the Leonids shower .