Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton [VIDEO]
Scientists are today searching for remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky in western Canada before breaking into pieces.
Alan Hildebrand, a University of Calgary planetary scientist, called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade.
Video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball over Saskatoon which became larger and brighter before disappearing as it neared the ground.
Mr Hildebrand said that he received about 300 e-mail reports from witnesses to the event.
“It would be something like a billion-watt light bulb,” said Mr Hildebrand, who also co-ordinates meteor sightings with the Canadian Space Agency.
Tammy Evans was woken up by her 10-year-old daughter who ran into the bedroom of their home in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, last Thursday. “She said there was a flash of light, the house shook twice and it sounded like dinosaurs were walking,” Ms Evans, a nurse, said.
Mr Hildebrand said he suspected that the meteor had broken up into pieces and added that he planned to investigate an area around Macklin, Saskatchewan, near the Alberta border.
Rick Huziak, an amateur astronomer in Saskatoon, helped to operate a camera on top of the University of Saskatchewan physics building that captured video of the meteor.
“It was quite spectacular. The ground lights up all over the place,” he said.
Huziak said most meteors burn up completely after entering the Earth’s atmosphere, but one in a thousand actually drop meteorites that hit the ground.
The biggest meteorite fall occurred north east of Edmonton, Canada, near the town of Bruderheim in 1960. More than 700 fragments were recovered that totalled 300kg.
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Comment by Death.Row on November 26, 2008 at 10:28am -
ETOWN !
thats how we do it up here
straight crazy s***
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Comment by Randy L. Idler on November 25, 2008 at 5:34pm -
marv$ta said it best
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Comment by Henry_corp on November 25, 2008 at 1:20pm -
i saw that s*** from here in melbourne florida
i knew i was seein s*** lol that s*** was bright ..... listen if one of them thangs hits an we all gotta die look i wanna know ahead of time.... cuz im fin to f*** some thin an im fin to jump on one of them nasa s**** an wait that s*** out thats real talk n****
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Comment by JON on November 25, 2008 at 8:58am -
lmao its goku from dragon ball z
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Comment by bruce on November 25, 2008 at 8:45am -
its not fake.
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Comment by Lord Grapnel on November 25, 2008 at 7:54am -
'em scientists f***'n wi' ur heads, t'was my one-headlight, one-sitta home made glyder, took it for a tes' flyt over wes' canada, call it lucifer's joy ride, wild ass hell.So don' be scared Kuklinski boy, Mama gon' spank ya scared ass if u s*** 'n 'em new pants.
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Comment by lionhart28 on November 25, 2008 at 6:15am -
E.T come backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Home
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Comment by cheo187 on November 25, 2008 at 6:01am -
THE END IS ALL MOST HERE OH SHITTTTT
WE ALL NEED TO PRAY REAL TALK
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Comment by anthony on November 25, 2008 at 5:23am -
OMG!!! I JUST SAW THIS S*** ON THE NEWS !! IT WASN'T KNOW F***** METEOR IT WAS A $100,000 NASA TOOL BELT THAT ONE OF THE ENGINEERS DROP IN SPACE WHILE REPAIRING THE SHIP DURIN A FLIGHT MISSION!! SOME GUY CALLED IN TO THE NEWS STATION CLAIMING HE SAW IT THRU HIS DAMN MICROSCOPE WHILE STANDING ON THE ROOF OF HIS F***** HOUSE!!!
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Comment by anthony on November 25, 2008 at 5:17am
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HONESTLY I BEEN WATCHIN CNN TO FOX TO CBS ALL THE NEWS CHANNELS AND NOT ONE OF THEM IS TALKIN ABOUT IT OR EVEN SHOWING IT ON ANY OF THERE REPORTS I DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT ON THE PLAY BY PLAY NEWS SCREEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE SO I THINK THIS IS FAKE TO BE HONEST!!! BUT IT IS KINDA INTERESTING !!!
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