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Cameras captured "fireball" in the sky


Date: 28-Oct-08
Author: University of Western Ontario

For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a region north of Guelph, Ont. that may total as much as a few hundred grams in mass.

The Physics and Astronomy Department at Western has a network of all-sky cameras in southern Ontario that scan the sky monitoring for meteors.

On Wednesday, October 15 at 5:28 a.m., all seven cameras of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network recorded a bright, slow fireball in the predawn sky.


An all-sky camera in Collingwood, Ontario, captured the brilliant fireball that crossed the predawn sky on 15 October 2008.  Courtesy: University of Western Ontario
 
Associate Professor Peter Brown and Phil McCausland, a postdoctoral researcher in Planetary Science, are hoping to enlist the help of local residents in recovering one or more possible meteorites that may have crashed.

Full story: Western cameras capture "fireball" in the sky

 

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