[meteorite-list] Fireball Lights Up Canada

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Dec 9 12:05:13 2005
Message-ID: <200512091703.jB9H3Sa15413_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/meteor-whitehorse-08122005.html

Fireball lights up Yukon morning
CBC News (Canada)
December 8, 2005
 
Commuters coming into Whitehorse were treated to some free fireworks
Thursday morning, as a meteoroid streaked across the sky.

Witnesses saw a bright fireball streak west to east across the sky just
north of the territorial capital at about 8:30 a.m.

"It was blue-white, neon-like and very bright, and lasted about four
seconds," said CBC reporter Doris Bill, who saw the light streak across
the sky as she drove in to work .

The meteoroid left a grey contrail across the sky that slowly broke up
in the upper atmosphere. There were no reports of any sonic boom.

In January of 2000, a 150-tonne meteoroid lit the skies over Whitehorse,
and exploded over a lake about 100 kilometres south of the city. The
Tagish Lake meteor produced a treasure of information about a rare kind
of meteorite.

Thursday's meteoroid likely burned up far above Earth's surface.
Received on Fri 09 Dec 2005 12:03:28 PM PST