Additional coverage from The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta
Posted on 11/22/2008 7:58:28 PM PST by rabscuttle385
From Edmonton to Edgeley, Sask., and points in between, people reported that the brilliant fireball streaking across western Canadian skies on Thursday seemed mighty close.
Hundreds flooded phone lines at police stations and media outlets with accounts of a multicoloured meteor.
No meteorite fragments have been found yet, but some of the witnesses who said they saw something fall are likely right, said Dr. Christopher Herd, a University of Alberta earth and atmospheric sciences professor.
Herd was getting reports of the meteor touching down in all parts of Alberta.
"It's a massive fireball; it's one of the brightest that we've seen in the area. And it almost certainly dropped meteorites, it looks somewhere around the Alberta-Saskatchewan border," he said.
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I wonder if my fam in Edmonton saw this. I may have to ask them.
Perhaps a piece of space junk returning home?
Scary but cool.
Too fast and steep to be space junk.
Cosmic ZOT!
This is why UFO reports are, to put it mildly, horse feathers. Real flying objects tend to get noticed, and noticed by a lot of people.
WHOA!!!
Hey, I better hurry and go out and get some ice cream or something!
this is HUGH and SERIES !!
Some galaxies really only 10 feet away, but are very tiny
(from Late Night with David Letterman's Top 10 Recent Scientific Discoveries #7)
Follow up on Canada Meteor PING.
It was Michael Jackson going on tour.
I had a good friend visiting at my house on Friday who saw this thing as she was driving on Thursday night. She described it exactly like the photo. It was really an awesome sight!
Bump for later Sunday reading
Good ones, thanks.
This was a "bolide".
UFOs, an Entirely different phenomenon.LOL.
SASKATCHEWAN FIREBALL: Amazing Video!
Spaceweather | Nov 20th, 2008
Posted on 11/21/2008 11:30:07 AM PST by TaraP
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