Cameras Capture 'Fireball' In The Sky: Meteor May Have Crashed In Ontario
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 20:21
in Astronomy & Space
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. Astronomers suspect the fireball dropped meteorites in a region north of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 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.