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Astronomy => In the Media... => Topic started by: Rick on Nov 22, 2008, 14:14:44

Title: Fireball over Edmonton, Canada
Post by: Rick on Nov 22, 2008, 14:14:44
Fireball over Edmonton, Canada: http://tinyurl.com/5ptvpo

Some more videos: http://www.mahalo.com/Canada_Meteor_Video

A newspaper report: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/11/21/7494091.html

...and another: http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081120/EDM_meteor_081120/20081120/?hub=EdmontonHome
Title: Re: Fireball over Edmonton, Canada
Post by: Carole on Nov 22, 2008, 21:10:50
Wow, that's a big one.

Carole
Title: The BBC's take on the event...
Post by: Rick on Nov 23, 2008, 10:21:24
Meteor lights up Canada's skies

Footage of a large meteor streaking across western Canada has been broadcast on Canadian television.

The video filmed from a local police car on patrol, showed a small light turning into a massive and blindingly bright fireball as it fell from the sky and appeared to hit the Earth in the distance.

Scientists are now searching for its remains.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7744207.stm
Title: Re: Fireball over Edmonton, Canada
Post by: Rick on Nov 25, 2008, 15:10:04
...and it made APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081125.html
Title: Re: Fireball over Edmonton, Canada
Post by: Mike on Nov 25, 2008, 16:24:15
I wonder where it ended up. That must have been a large chunk of rock.
Title: Re: Fireball over Edmonton, Canada
Post by: Rick on Nov 25, 2008, 16:55:56
They're looking quite hard, it seems, but there's at least some speculation that it was so bright because it was friable and icy, and that therefore nothing may have survived to reach the ground.
Title: Re: Fireball over Edmonton, Canada
Post by: MarkS on Nov 25, 2008, 19:33:26

They think it might be a lost tool bag. 
Heide dropped it and shouted "Look out below ..."