Video captures massive meteor as it lights up sky in Canada

New York Daily News ^ | November 23rd 2008 | Michael Sheridan

[Lorianne]

amazing video

[Ronzo]

Cool.

[Doogle]

very hot

[genefromjersey]

I saw something very similar in November of 1950,while riding in the back of a truck and looking north. I thought there had been a nuclear attack !

Later on,after reading a lot of science fiction,I wondered if the meteor had contained “contra-terrene matter” (positrons instead of electrons,etc.)

The color of the “fireball” was almost exactly like that produced by the nuclear test at Eniwitok (sp?)a year or two later.

[BenLurkin]

Cosmonauts Chang and Wong returning unhappily from a training flight preparing for a surprise moon landing?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Cosmonauts Chang and Wong returning unhappily from a training flight preparing for a surprise moon landing?

ROTFL!

[LiberConservative]

Cool. If it were me in the car I might have gotten into an accident ... or had an accident.

[Izzy Dunne]

the house shook twice and it sounded like dinosaurs were walking," Evans said.

Yeah, because the time that I saw dinosaurs walking, it sounded just like this.

[Sola Veritas]

Wow....If I had seen that I would have thought it to be a ballistic missle. I wonder if there was any explosive sound that happened when it broke up?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I lost my meteor. Thanks for finding it.

[Lorianne]

That wasn’t any toolbag crashing to earth!

[CaribouCrossing]

Wow! On the evening of November 14th, between 7 and 7:30 p.m., we saw one of the largest meteors we’ve ever seen as we were driving back to our cabin. The one we saw actually looked like a brilliant green burst before falling through the atmosphere. It was really something to see and I don’t know how many times we said, “wow, oh wow!” LOL

[Bernard Marx]

Wow....If I had seen that I would have thought it to be a ballistic missle. I wonder if there was any explosive sound that happened when it broke up?

That's exactly what I thought when I saw one headed right for Salt Lake City one evening back in the Cold War days of the early 1960s. It was twilight and the street lights had just come on. The thing grew brighter and brighter until the lights turned off again. I was waiting for the Soviet nuclear blast but instead the thing exploded silently in a huge fireball then disappeared.

We learned the next day a large meteorite had exploded over central Utah. I know teams were sent to search for remnants and can't recall if any were found. But for a few moments I thought WWW3 had started.

[ccmay]

Cosmonauts Chang and Wong returning unhappily from a training flight

Taikonauts.

[aberaussie]

Ha ha! My daughter and I saw a pretty amazing meteor on Tuesday, I think, and that’s what we wondered if it could be - the lost toolbag!

[seawolf101]

The Toolbag Has Landed!

[dusttoyou]

At a $100 Grand it must have been SnapOn.

[BlueStateBlues]

The average of 2 “Cool” and post 3 “Very hot”: Lukewarm!

[brytlea]

LOL I saw the video on Fox this morning after watching a show on Discover last night about Mammoths and a comet hitting the earth 13k years ago, and at the end the supposition was maybe this was much more common than we thought....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Photos here:

Massive fireball lights up the night sky

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A fireball shoots across downtown Edmonton in this image taken from video sent to CTV Edmonton by Andrew Bartlet, late Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A CTV map details the area of western Canada where the flash was reportedly visible.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[NormsRevenge]

60 kilometers per second.. that’s boogying.. cool stuff.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Oatka]

The thing grew brighter and brighter until the lights turned off again. I was waiting for the Soviet nuclear blast but instead the thing exploded silently in a huge fireball then disappeared. . . . But for a few moments I thought WWW3 had started.

I was just a kid in NYC in the late 40s or early 50s when I heard a low rumble, looked over towards New Jersey and saw a large mushroom cloud. I thought that Joe Stalin had started the Big One. Scared the yell out of me. It was "just" a ship that was loaded with ammunition - and I guess someone was clumsy. Nobody who knew for sure was left.

[OldNavyVet]

"... and at the end the supposition was maybe this was much more common than we thought...."

From "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones. page 218 ...

A trillion comets orbit the sun. The gravel that surrounds them appears, should it hit our atmosphere, as a shower of meteors. The Earth gains a ton in weight every hour from their dust. Two thousand asteroids big enough to destroy civilization orbit nearby.

[brytlea]

Yeah, I try not to think about it! ;)

[Alberta's Child]

Awesome.

One thing that I've always found pretty amazing about these things is that they seem so cataclysmic from the ground, but then most experts indicate that the object was actually pretty small. One guy quoted in the article says it was probably no larger than a grapefruit.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

> a show on Discover last night about Mammoths and a comet hitting the earth 13k years ago

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[Marine_Uncle]

Very impressive. Must have been one heck of a big chunk to be seen that large of an area.

[drtom]

The main reason for that is that the light phenomenon you see actually does not originate from the meteor itself (as in a glowing piece of rock) but from a cloud of ionized gas surrounding it. The kinetic energy of the meteor ionizes the gas around it, which in return produces the light when recombining.

This way a seemingly small object can produce a brilliant shine.