Dashcam footage and all-sky cameras caught an amazing long-lived fireball meteor early Friday. At around 6:45 am EDT, Friday, October 7, a particularly resilient piece of space rock entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgian Bay, and blazed a bright trail across the sky.
Peter Brown, a meteor scientist at the University of Western Ontario, found that the university's network of all-sky cameras had captured a spectacular view of this meteor as it passed overhead.
Youtuber user DrClockSmasher also caught this one, as he was riding his motorcycle through northeast Metro Detroit.Long-lived (10 sec), bright fireball over Georgian Bay last night - captured on many of @westernu meteor cameras. @westernuScience #fireball pic.twitter.com/voCTeUO0ao— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) October 7, 2016
Another all-sky camera, this one from the E.C. Carr Astronomical Observatory, located between the Blue Mountains and Beaver Valley, near Georgian Bay, captured the event as well.
Video from @RASCTC observatory right under path of last night's bright fireball @westernu @westernuScience #fireball #meteor pic.twitter.com/hhStLFgQYg— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) October 7, 2016
