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Meteor caught on film

Ixion

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Ixion
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This is not really anything controversial. I just thought it was cool and wanted to share. A bright "fireball" was caught on film by several people in Canada inadvertantly.

Here is the story in Scientific American:
Scientific American Story

And in Yahoo!

Yahoo!

I have seen some bright meteors before, but nothing this bright. To me, it is breathtaking!
 
A woman I work with saw that meteor when whe was driving, or at least saw everything around her brighten considerably, and this is 500 miles east of Edmonton. She said it was at about 6:30 p.m. our time, so it must have been the same one. Thanks for posting the video, now I can tell her I saw it, too. :)
 
I saw a bolide once in California during an overnight astronomy club outing. Nothing like this though. Very cool.
 
Ixion said:
This is not really anything controversial. I just thought it was cool and wanted to share. A bright "fireball" was caught on film by several people in Canada inadvertantly.

Here is the story in Scientific American:
Scientific American Story

And in Yahoo!

Yahoo!

I have seen some bright meteors before, but nothing this bright. To me, it is breathtaking!
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I saw one like it driving on California's I-5 about 3-4 years ago. It flashed too, and was white-green-yellow.

About the same size, but flatter trajectory.
 
I usually try to watch a few meteor showers during the year, and I sometimes sit on my balcony and watch the stars. I have seen tons of meteors, and a couple of fireballs. I have even seen one that was confirmed to land (a small ferrous meteorite) which left a red trail which seemed to hang in the air for several seconds. None of them were this bright though. The intensity of light in the video is what is astounding to me. I would love to have seen this one in person.
 
Ixion said:
I usually try to watch a few meteor showers during the year, and I sometimes sit on my balcony and watch the stars. I have seen tons of meteors, and a couple of fireballs. I have even seen one that was confirmed to land (a small ferrous meteorite) which left a red trail which seemed to hang in the air for several seconds. None of them were this bright though. The intensity of light in the video is what is astounding to me. I would love to have seen this one in person.
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I agree that it is astounding. I'm glad I got to see the one I saw.
 
I remember running in the Saudi desert just before dawn, when something like this went over- I suspect my sighting was re-entering debris rather than an actual meteor.

What's neat is that cameras are so ubiquitous that something like this is actually likely to be recorded. So where are all the recordings of Nessie etc that we might reasonably expect these days?
 
Michelle Lyon said:
I saw this on the news last night! Has anyone found the impact crater yet?
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I have third-hand information (someone told me that he heard it on the radio) that it was probably only the size of a grapefruit. If that's the case, there wouldn't be much of a crater, if any of it even reached Earth before burning up.
 
Working nights and being a smoker I see meteors all the time (usually twice a month) but I've never seen anything like this one. It reminds me of one I saw a few years ago that lasted for maybe .3-.6 seconds, not long, but was sufficiently longer than I'd seen previously and enough time for me to have a thought - "oh crap, looks like we're about to join the dinosaurs..."
 
One of the videos I saw was from a camera mounted on the dash of a police car. Since they know the direction of the road he was on, they should be able to get a pretty good estimate of the heading needed to find the impact spot. That should help narrow it down.

Steve S.
 
It has been found

As reported on LiveScience, A University of Calgary scientist and graduate student found the area where the meteor likely hit, as well as some meteorites to back their claim.

From the article:
University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural Alberta-Saskatchewan border, near the city of Lloydminster late Thursday.

They said there could be thousands of meteorite pieces strewn over a 7-square-mile area of mostly flat, barren land, with few inhabitants.
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