Meteor caught on video in Alberta

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Ah yes, I remember the meteor. Kind of a funny story I suppose,

I was standing on the corner of Whyte and Gateway (in Edmonton) waiting for the light in order to transfer buses on the way home from university when suddenly the sky lit up. It really caught me off guard. Now, at first I wondered if this really happened. I looked around and wondered if anyone else had experienced this sudden flash of light. Life just seemed to go on as normal, so I attributed it to some sort of . After all, I hadn't ate yet that day, nor slept at all the night before, so I just passed it off as a temporary psychosis manifestation.

Later that night I learned that it really did happen.

"Then came the night of the first falling star. It was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star. Albin described it as leaving a greenish streak behind it that glowed for some seconds. Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles. It seemed to him that it fell to earth about one hundred miles east of him."

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl- ... ar-1-1.htm

Forewarned is forearmed.

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Some pieces have since been found. I guess it broke up on impact.

The rocks are black, and will be analyzed for their content.

It is amazing how these meteorites do not fall in heavily populated areas. the Alberta object ended up in a farmer's field!

When I read Macbeth's post I thought initially it had been seen in the sky above Europe before continuing on to North America. H.G. Wells' classic is still riveting after all these years.

I actually saw the flash. Don't know how many Calgarians saw it though.

There were a few, I missed seeing it because I live on the north side of the Bow Valley, but some here said they saw the fireball.