London Free Press
(REUTERS FILES/Russell Cheyne) Researchers are hoping to track down a large meteorite that streaked the sky and crashed in eastern Ontario Monday night. Many Canadians were looking upward during the Geminid meteor shower when a bright fireball was ...
University of Western astronomers get rare video of meteor's fall near Toronto
Toronto Star
The bright fireball travelled through the evening sky east of Toronto on Monday and was captured by a highly advanced video surveillance system from the university. Six cameras from Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network recorded a slow-moving ...
Researchers search for clues after meteoric fireball spotted over Ontario
Globe and Mail
Researchers at the ROM and University of Western Ontario are asking the public's help to find fragments of meteoric fireball that was seen in the southern Ontario sky Monday evening. UWO astronomers have released footage of the meteor, ...
Selwyn Fireball (Orangeville Camera)
YouTube
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario have released footage of a meteor, which was captured by its highly advanced video surveillance system, traveling through the evening sky east of Toronto on Monday evening (December 12, ...
| Meteorite Alert! Remote Cameras Capture Slow-Moving Fireball near Toronto Universe Today But in a meteorite-hunter alert, Peter Brown, the Director of Western's Centre for Planetary & Space Exploration said that data garnered from the remote cameras suggest that surviving fragments of the rock are likely, with a mass that may total as much ... Blazing meteor falls east of Toronto CBC.ca Ontario researchers want to hear from anyone who saw a basketball-sized fireball in the sky east of Toronto Monday night or has found fragments of the fallen meteorites. The meteor, described as a "slow-moving fireball, estimated to be no bigger than a ... |
| Cameras capture meteor on video just east of Toronto CTV.ca Astronomers say they've caught a rare cosmic snapshot of a fiery meteor hurtling through the sky just east of Toronto on Monday evening. Cameras belonging to the University of Western Ontario's meteor group first captured the fireball at 6:04 pm as it... |
Meteorite likely landed in eastern Ontario: Researchers
CNews Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:59 AM PST
Researchers are hoping to track down a large meteorite that streaked the sky and crashed in eastern Ontario Monday night
Did a meteorite fall in one Wading River resident`s backyard?
The Riverhead News-Review Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:30 PM PST
As the annual meteor shower of the Geminids peaked last night, one Wading River resident thought a giant space rock had landed in her Soundfront backyard. Doris Leech looked out her window about 7 a.m. Wednesday and saw a strange three-foot high, ten-foot wide object just east of the jetty near Wading River Creek. At [...]
Meteor crashed near Selwyn - THE LATEST
The Peterborough Examiner Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST
A blazing fireball roared over Peterborough Tuesday night and crashed somewhere north of Stoney Lake. You may not have seen it â the skies were overcast â but if you did, the meteorite team at the University of Western Ontario want to hear from you.[...]
Meteorite Alert! Remote Cameras Capture Slow-Moving Fireball near Toronto
Universe Today Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST
In newly released footage from the University of Western Ontario, a bright, slow-moving fireball was captured in the skies near Toronto, Canada on December 12, 2011 by remote cameras watching for meteors. Although this meteor looks huge as it burns up in Earthâs atmosphere, astronomers estimate the rock to have been no bigger than a [...]
Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged
SpaceDaily Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:22 PM PST
A piece of the Murchison meteorite on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Ernst Zinner will be studying roughly 100 grains of supernova dust he will extract from half a kilogram of the meteorite by dissolving the rest in acids.
