Meteor crashes to Canda. What's that all aboot?

eSDee · 11-23-2008, 07:25 PM

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...rFTQwD94KAVV00

Quote:

Witnesses: Large meteor streaks across
Canada sky
1 day ago

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Scientists say they hope to find remnants of a
meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before falling to earth in western Canada.
University of Calgary planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade. Widely broadcast video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball Thursday
night over Saskatoon that became larger and brighter before disappearing as it neared the ground.

Hildebrand said Friday that he received about 300 email reports from witnesses.
"It would be something like a billion-watt light bulb," said Hildebrand, who also co-ordinates meteor sightings with the Canadian Space Agency. Tammy Evans was wakened by her 10-year-old daughter who ran into the bedroom. "She said there was a flash of light, the house shook twice and it sounded like dinosaurs
were walking," Evans said.

Hildebrand suspects it broke up into pieces and he plans to investigate around Macklin, Saskatchewan near the Alberta border. Rick Huziak, an amateur astronomer in Saskatoon, helped operate a camera on top of the
University of Saskatchewan physics building that captured video of the meteor.
"It was quite spectacular. The ground lights up all over the place," he said.
Martin Beech, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Regina, said meteorites are valuable to learning about the history of the solar system.
"Picking up a meteorite is almost equivalent to doing a space exploration mission between
Mars and Jupiter," he said.

Pretty crazy. Wish I could have seen it.

Video of meteor from cop car dash cam (from Break.com, a NSFW site):

http://www.break.com/index/police-da...es-canada.html

Thesifer · 11-23-2008, 08:08 PM

Was Kal-El onboard?

GuruX · 11-23-2008, 10:23 PM

All I know is that the sky lit up a fair bit over the course of 5 seconds or so. I didn't actually see the fireball, but it sure did catch me off-guard nonetheless.

Thesifer · 11-23-2008, 10:43 PM

That would actually be kinda freaky.

Kevster · 11-25-2008, 10:29 PM

Just curious, where's Canda?

Maarchk · 11-26-2008, 09:56 AM

Just curious, how does someone know that it sounded like dinosaurs? Did the meteor say "Rawr, I'm a dinosaur"?

Thesifer · 11-26-2008, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Maarchk

Just curious, how does someone know that it sounded like dinosaurs? Did the meteor say "Rawr, I'm a dinosaur"?

Well she is a ten year old, so I'm sure she imagined what a but of dinosaurs would sound like, and it sounded like that!

ArkiStan · 11-26-2008, 10:36 PM

I heard that inside the meteor was riding a squid that had elbows.

zenbooty · 11-30-2008, 12:42 AM

Here's video of the event, captured by a police car camera that was riding by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw

Scary to think that if that thing were 30 or 40 feet in diameter instead of the 10 that was estimated, Edmonton would probably no longer be on the map.

eSDee · 11-30-2008, 03:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenbooty

Here's video of the event, captured by a police car camera that was riding by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw

Scary to think that if that thing were 30 or 40 feet in diameter instead of the 10 that was estimated, Edmonton would probably no longer be on the map.

I must be in your ignore list Zen, because I posted that video in the original post!

Thesifer · 11-30-2008, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eSDee

I must be in your ignore list Zen, because I posted that video in the original post!

He must have just overlooked it, because I think I might have as well

zenbooty · 11-30-2008, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eSDee

I must be in your ignore list Zen, because I posted that video in the original post!

Whoops. Yeah, I didn't see that bottom link.

Thesifer · 11-30-2008, 01:58 AM

That's pretty awesome looking though!

ShawnLee · 11-30-2008, 07:13 PM

Man - Canda has all the fun. That was pretty cool.

11-23-2008, 08:08 PM	#2
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11-23-2008, 10:23 PM	#3
GuruX Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Calgary Alberta Canada Posts: 2,369	All I know is that the sky lit up a fair bit over the course of 5 seconds or so. I didn't actually see the fireball, but it sure did catch me off-guard nonetheless. __________________ I reject your reality and substitute my own. - Adam Savage

11-25-2008, 10:29 PM	#5
Kevster Admiral Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: NorCal Posts: 6,089	Just curious, where's Canda? __________________ I think over again My small adventures, my fears. The small ones that seemed so big, For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, the only thing: To live to see the great day that dawns, And the light that fills the world. -old Inuit song

11-26-2008, 09:56 AM	#6
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ArkiStan Admiral Join Date: May 2000 Location: Recession Central Posts: 5,757	I heard that inside the meteor was riding a squid that had elbows. __________________ Please keep sigs 25kb or smaller.

11-23-2008, 10:43 PM	#4
Thesifer Vice Admiral Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oklahoma - Just Recently moved from San Diego Posts: 4,102	That would actually be kinda freaky.

11-30-2008, 12:42 AM	#9
zenbooty Admiral Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Prime Material Plane Posts: 7,486	Here's video of the event, captured by a police car camera that was riding by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw Scary to think that if that thing were 30 or 40 feet in diameter instead of the 10 that was estimated, Edmonton would probably no longer be on the map. __________________ Common sense is what tells you the Earth is flat.

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Thesifer Vice Admiral Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oklahoma - Just Recently moved from San Diego Posts: 4,102	That's pretty awesome looking though!

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