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Cell phone videos shared by gobsmacked earthlings show what appeared to be a massive shooting star that broke into a cluster of smaller fireballs as the satellite disintegrated.
At its brightest point, the meteor was two times brighter than a full moon, experts say.
The fireball, actually a particularly bright meteor streaking through the night sky, was recorded in 335 reports collected by the American Meteor Society. The reports stretched from Ontario ...
A fireball spotted overhead in Ontario on November 19 was just the sixth object to be detected in space before entering Earth’s atmosphere, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.Security footage ...
The meteor was also referred to as the "Buzzard Coulee fireball", named after the area where searchers found the first fragments. [9] Buzzard Coulee is located approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the Battle River valley. The first pieces of the rock were found by Ellen Milley, a University of Calgary Master's student on November 27, 2008.
A bolide: a very bright meteor of an apparent magnitude of −14 or brighter. Fireball over the Bering Sea viewed from space (18 December 2018). The following is a list of bolides and fireballs seen on Earth in recent times.
The Czechoslovak–Polish fireball is sometimes compared to the 1972 Great Daylight Fireball [1] above Utah, the United States, and Alberta, Canada, which is the first scientifically observed and studied event of this type. [11] The 1972 fireball was more than a thousand times as massive and it got 40 km closer to Earth's surface. [1]
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