Northern U.S. meteor dazzles thousandsEarly Monday morning, thousands of people across multiple northern U.S. states watched a brilliant meteor streak across the sky. It then plunged into Lake Michigan.
The video above shows a bright green meteor caught early in the morning on February 6, 2017 by a Lisle, Illinois police car dash cam. It was just one of the 467 reports (and counting …) received so far by the American Meteor Society (AMS) about of a fireball event over Wisconsin and Illinois early Monday morning. The green fireball – or especially bright meteor, or bit of debris from space – flashed across Earth’s sky around 01:27 CST (07:27 UTC). Witnesses from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota and Ontario, Canada also reported the event. The AMS later said that the event they called #454-2017 was the 14th-largest meteor sighting they had recorded since beginning their work in 2005. Did you see it? Report your fireball sighting here The video below shows the meteor as recorded by the east camera on the roof of the Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences Building on the University of Wisconsin campus.
The next video is from Marcella Canfora:
See more videos via the American Meteor Society The next video, from the American Meteor Society’s YouTube page, shows the meteor’s trajectory and its plunge into Lake Michigan:
The American Meteor Society described how it drew this conclusion in an article titled Green Fireball over Wisconsin: Citizen Science at Work. The article’s author, Vincent Perlerin, wrote:
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Bottom line: Early in the morning on February 6, 2017, thousands of people across Wisconsin, Illinois and other northern U.S. states watched a brilliant meteor streak across the sky. The American Meteor Society later determined that the meteor – a piece of debris from outer space – plunged into Lake Michigan.
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