Footage exhibits the meteor seen in a number of places in Ontario on Sunday night time.
Movies of a meteor streaking throughout the skies of southern Ontario have surfaced and small bits of the outer house rock might have made it to land, one astronomy professor says.
Peter Brown, a professor of astronomy at Western College and Canada Analysis Chair in Planetary Science, advised Ontario Chronicle Toronto in an electronic mail that the college’s meteor cameras picked up the fireball Sunday night time.
He mentioned the meteor’s path ended close to Allenwood Seashore, in Wasaga Seashore, on the shore of Georgian Bay.
“The fireball was moving off shore so it is likely any meteorites are in the lake,” he defined, including that the rock was transferring at a pace of over 20 kilometres a second and was final reported at a peak of 33 kilometres above land.
“However, we are doing some analysis of this event and it is (remotely) possible small meteorites might have made it to land if the upper winds were right, but we don’t know right now.”
The item, which Brown mentioned was in regards to the dimension of a softball, was additionally noticed in Brantford, the place resident Dereck Bowen filmed his personal video of the occasion.
Talking to Ontario Chronicle Toronto, Bowen mentioned he noticed the meteor together with his personal eyes then checked his doorbell cam which captured the footage.
“I kind of thought it was a firework,” he mentioned, noting the celestial present solely lasted just a few seconds.
Brown mentioned if any meteorites did make it to the bottom, they might probably be very onerous to search out as they might be small. He added that it’s going to take time to do a full evaluation of the occasion.
