Toronto meteor

Blob · #1 (**permalink**) 12-March-2007, 11:51 PM

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Sunday March 11th at about 8 PM -People throughout the GTA witnessed a fireball moving across our sky towards the west. Police switchboards from the Regions of Durham, York and Toronto started to receive the calls of the curious and the concerned.

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Witness: 'Mammoth fireball' about 300 feet in diameter
Joe Arcuri from Deerfield was driving along the Thruway headed to work when he saw a fireball rise into the sky from the Oneida train explosion.

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NEOWatcher · #2 (**permalink**) 13-March-2007, 01:58 PM

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What does the train explosion have to do with all the meteor sightings?

I'm still trying to make sense of this:
For Robb Perrin, he was chopping wood in his back yard. "It was so intense you could actually see the blue light inside of it," said Perrin. "I'm on my way out to pick it up and maybe out 40 feet before it hits the ground it just turns into white dust. It just exploded and i was just immensely disappointed, I thought I was going to have a meteor."
I assume the "it" is the wood, it doesn't make sense if "it' was the meteor.
Plus, I wonder how off he was on his perception. The distance sounds unlikely to me.

Peter Wilson · #3 (**permalink**) 15-March-2007, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerdy Astronomer

But on such clear winter nights, it’s not uncommon for people to mistake the planet Venus for something far more exciting, he said.

“It’s the brightest object in the sky next to the sun and moon, so some people mistake (Venus) for a UFO,” he said from his home in Baden.

That is sooooooo lame.

People were reporting a blue, flaming meteor shooting off sparks, not a UFO

Blob · #4 (**permalink**) 15-March-2007, 10:14 PM

Hum,
according to reports, a meteorite may have landed in "a farmers' field west of Lindsay", about an hour from Newmarket, York region.

Latitude: 44.34624, Longitude: -78.88153

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