[meteorite-list] Light in Night Sky in Canada Lights Up Switchboard

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <200703121559.l2CFxN716541_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/190806

Light in night sky lights up switchboard
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
March 11, 2007

Bright flashes of light streaking across the sky Sunday night
had some Greater Toronto residents calling police to find out
what was going on.

Police switchboards in Toronto, York and Durham Regions
reported receiving several calls from people who had observed
a fireball in the night sky between 8 and 8:30 p.m.

The mysterious object was likely a meteoroid - or shooting star -
which leaves a trail of light, called a meteor, as it burns and
breaks up while falling from space through the Earth's atmosphere,
police said.

There is no word yet on whether anyone has found a meteorite-what
is left of the object if and when it hits the Earth's surface.

 
Received on Mon 12 Mar 2007 11:59:23 AM PDT