With its longer, cooler nights, Autumn is an excellent time of year for stargazing, taking in a half-dozen meteor showers (including a potential meteor storm and fireball swarm), and possibly even spotting an alien visitor passing through our solar system.

Everyone was talking about it this weekend, a large meteor exploding over the Houston area and sending pieces of space rock toward the ground. It happened Saturday, March 21, at 4:39 p.m. Central Time when the meteor slammed into Earth’s atmosphere.