Lower than two weeks after a brilliant fireball lit up the sky above the Nice Lakes, scattering space pebbles on their shores, one other spectacular meteor impressed skywatchers within the Northeast.
The streak of sunshine that sliced by way of the sky on Thursday (Dec. 1) at about 7:30 p.m. EST (0030 GMT on Dec. 2), was seen by not less than 737 witnesses throughout the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and South and North Carolina in keeping with the American Meteor Society (opens in new tab) (AMS). Sightings in Canada’s Ontario province have been additionally reported.
Fairly just a few doorbell cameras in addition to meteocams (cameras aimed skyward to seize fireballs) captured the meteor, prompting their homeowners to proudly share the footage with the AMS in addition to on Twitter.
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“Simply watched a beautiful inexperienced & orange bolide zoom to Earth east of Granville — anybody else see a meteor tonight in japanese Ohio?” Twitter user Jeff Gill (opens in new tab) shared shortly after the occasion.
His tweet elicited fairly just a few responses from different fortunate witnesses.
Phil Haddad from Pittsburgh was even luckier, catching the fireball on his doorbell digicam.
“I don’t usually tweet, however once I do it’s as a result of I captured a meteor on my doorbell cam #pittsburgh #meteor,” he mentioned, sharing the footage (opens in new tab) proudly on Twitter.
One other Twitter person, Robert Tinney from Cleveland, responded by sharing his doorbell cam (opens in new tab) footage.
No additional details about the character of this space rock, which AMS labeled 9579-2022, has been made obtainable up to now, together with whether or not any of it may have reached the bottom.
On Nov. 19, fragments of a 3-foot (1 meter) space rock fell in the identical area on the shores of Lake Ontario. Astronomers detected that space rock three hours earlier than it entered Earth’s environment and have been in a position to calculate the place it would hit the bottom. The rock was solely the sixth ever detected earlier than smashing into our planet.
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