  The encounter of the meteoric material from 73P/Schmassmann--Wachmann~3
produced during the comet's 1995 outburst in May 2022 provides a rare and
valuable opportunity to understand a fragmenting comet. Here we explore various
ejection configurations and their impact on the meteor outburst detected in the
early hours of UT 2022 May 31. We show that the dust must have been ejected
$\sim4$ to $5\times$ faster than calculated by water-ice sublimation model to
best match the observed meteor activity. As only a small subset of particles
with a narrow range of cross-section is expected to have reached the Earth, the
large spread of meteor brightness likely indicates the presence of large but
porous meteoroids in the trail. Other effects such as an enhanced lunar sodium
tail and a visible glow from the meteoroid trail may have also occurred during
the encounter.
