Meteor caught on tape

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:34 am

Last week there was a meteor that lit up the sky over western Canada. I unfortunatly missed it as I was at the hockey game but it was caught on the police dashboard camera in a community 15 minutes from where I live. If the link doesn't work, look under Edmonton Meteor and there are several different videos of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os9FrsVM ... re=related

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:10 pm

I didn't get to see this either - I was inside cooking supper - but I know many people who did and they all said it was brilliant.

street · Post by **street** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:03 pm

WOW!!!!! I read the reports, but that is the first video I'd seen.

Were any left over bits found?

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:05 pm

They found where it hit a few days ago. The first piece was found on frozen pond but it did not break throught the ice. One piece was just over 300g and another was 200g (it was on the local news last night but I can't find the video)

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/ ... &date=True

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:06 am

Amazing how the result of such a big fireball in the sky is only two pebbles at 200g and 300g. I can only imagine the size it must have been before it began to burn up - some say the original meteor was as big as a house!