In 2010 the Spanish Meteor Net-
work (SPMN) started a special program to obtain very
precise orbital information on 2P/Encke meteoroids
that is currently the focus of
the author master thesis
[1, 2]. The orbital similitude is a clear evidence
on the
connection between comets and meteor streams. The
continuous sublimation of the ice-rich regions in
cometary nuclei produces outgassing capable to re-
lease cm to
m-sized particles from cometary nuclei.
This is the main way to produce meteoroid streams
showers [3,4,5]. Another feasible physical process to
produce cometary debris in heliocentric orbit is the
disruption of a comet that explains the formation of
about ten meteoroid streams [6,7,8]. This second
pathway produces far larger particles that sometimes
can even be in the meter scale and can explain very
bright bolides associated with some meteor showers
[8]. Unfortunately, large bolides are rare events so in
order to study them a continuous sky monitoring is
required which is the only way to collect information
on the dynamic origin and physical behavior of large
bolides penetrating Earth’s at
mosphere. So far we have
described different cases related to the Taurid complex
[1,2]. Several Near Earth Objects (NEOs) have been
dynamically associated w
ith the Taurid complex
clearly suggesting that the progressive disruption of a
larger cometary progenitor is the source of this com-
plex of bodies [9, 10]. In the current abstract we focus
in a Taurid fireball named SPMN 201112 recorded on
November 20
th
, 2012 at 2h16m15.6s UTC
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