The Canadian Press
EDMONTON–A fireball that lit up the evening sky over parts of Alberta on Wednesday was a meteor.
Frank Florian, an astronomer at the TELUS World of Science in Edmonton, said the meteor streaked across the northeast part of the province.
Corbet Kratko said he captured an image of the ribbon of fire with his dashboard camera as he was driving in the city.
In Fort McMurray, homeowner Khristine Scott Lavery had video of the meteor that was taken by a camera attached to her doorbell.
She said her childen took the video to school yesterday for show-and-tell.
There were some reports of people hearing loud bangs after seeing the flash.
Florian said while the meteor looked like it was nearby, looks can be deceiving.
“Even though they’re quite bright and they look like they’re relatively close, they can be many hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres away depending up on where you see them in the sky,” he noted.
Florian said the challenge now will be to figure out where any meteorite fragments may have ended up.
“There definitely is pieces left of this object somewhere in northern Alberta,” he remarked.
