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University of Western Ontario cameras capture "fireball"
On Wednesday, October 15 at 5:28 am,The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group's Physics and Astronomy department's all- sky cameras caught extremely rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The cameras showed visual of a bright, slow fireball in the sky. Astronomers suspect that the fireball dropped meteorites in a region north of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Scientists explain that the meteorite was a very slow fireball which questionably made it far into the earth's atmosphere. Most meteoroids burn up by the time they hit an altitude of 60 or 70 km from the ground. I'm not sure how this meteoroid made it that far down on Earth (37km) but it doesn't matter to me, since it wasn't that great of an impact.http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/41119/University_of_Western_Ontario_cameras_capture_fireball.html
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