New fireball over western Canada
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A fireball was spotted hurtling through the skies over Calgary in the early hours of Monday morning. Or we should we say a new fireball because shortly before Christmas, another fiery meteor blazed across western skies.
It’s now popularly known as Milley’s Meteor after University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley who found the first pieces on land in western Saskatchewan, inspiring a poem from p2pnet reader Anthony Tymstra.
Says the Lethbridge Herald »»»
A Calgary volunteer with the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre captured about six seconds of video of a fireball that was witnessed by several people in the Lethbridge area at 5:45 a.m. Monday.
Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre, and Canada Research Chair in Planetary Science at the University of Calgary, said reports continued to come in from Calgary residents Tuesday, one of whom captured the video. Hildebrand was part of the team that found chunks of a meteorite which landed near Lloydminster Nov. 20.
“The image starts in the east-southeast and goes towards the south,” Hildebrand said.
“I would guess it was 200 to 300 kilometres from here judging from its elevation in the sky. It was a shallow trajectory. He recorded six seconds of it before it went behind a cloud, so it was at least that long, and being shallow it could easily have been 10 or 20 seconds. Some of the witnesses in town here said they saw the whole thing, and they said it was not much longer than 10 seconds.
inspiring a poem – Ode to Ellen Milley’s meteor, December 2, 2008
Lethbridge Herald – Monday fireball caught on video , January 6, 2009
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:39 am
huh?
this has to be a joke!
The Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre?!?
if they have pamphlets on ‘how to avoid a fireball’ Ive seen it all! =P
January 8th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Jeez, the comment text here is a little on the small side!
Good vid, though.