Machholz meteors?

During the last two sessions I've seen meteors travelling from south to north. Each time in parallel to the path made by Machholz from Lepus to Cassiopeia.

I don't know if we've passed near to or through the trail of Machholz though with a perihelion of 1.2 AU and the fact that a comet releases non-visible particles at much greater distances than the coma then it is possible that we are picking up some particles from the comet.

Of course, Machholz is not the only comet that has such a highly inclined orbit.

Anyone else seen these meteors or have any thoughts.

By the way, I still meet people in this area who have lived here all their lives and have not once seen a meteor. I see at least one during every session! And a fantastic fireball last November too. Lime green, sparking and I can swear I could hear a dull rumble and fizzing too.

Just as you mention it, I say a lovely Bootid fireball on Wednesday night at around 11:34pm. I was driving in the car with my fiancée when we both saw it right in front of our vision/direction of travel. It was about magnitude -3, bright yellow/white, very little trace of tail (though the windshield and concentration on driving probably diminished any tail seen.). It travelled about 12 degrees, and I'd say 10 degrees to the left of Arcturus, heading down to the horizon.

Really nice!

Seanie.

James,
If you have starry night, download the latest data and you can see the orbit if you zoom out enough to see the inner solarsystem.
The comet came close, but not really close, the Earth didnt cross/intercept the comets orbit.