Indeed, the Taurid debris stream contains noticeably larger fragments than those shed by other comets, which is why in certain years this rather elderly meteor stream delivers a few unusually bright meteors known as "fireballs." The Taurids are actually divided into the Northern Taurids and the Southern Taurids, an example of what happens to a meteor stream when it grows old.
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