Were you lucky enough to see a meteor streaking across the Edmonton sky on Monday evening? If not, the Global Edmonton's SkyTracker camera on top of Manulife Place was and caught the shooting star as it happened.
Reports of a meteor over the capital region started coming in shorting after 5:00 p.m.
The Global Edmonton SkyTracker camera was facing southwest, with the High Level Bridge in the bottom left hand corner of the shot. At 5:08 p.m. a fire ball can be seen for about 45 seconds over the south horizon before it either burned out, or was covered by clouds near the horizon.
Comment: Yes, the Geminid meteor shower is active at present. But it is well worth remembering what can come out of the sky without any warning at all, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor from February 2013:
For more on the very high probability of Earth soon being on the receiving end of a major cometary bombardment, and why, see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Comets and Catastrophe series:
Parked outside waiting for someone I noticed a large bright object travelling towards the ground at speed, it appears blue-ish in colour and is trailing before disappearing behind the houses.
Comment: Other meteor fireballs observed over Ireland and the United Kingdom in November include:
T.J. Del Santo wivb.com Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:50 UTC
It was more a matter of luck than anything else, but it was an amazing 1-2 seconds caught live on television Sunday morning at about 8:17 a.m. A fireball raced across the deep blue sky over Providence, and I watched it as it happened. Look just above the smoke stack about 3 seconds into the video.
To see the fireball, enlarge the video to fill your screen.
Our Hurricane Barrier Cam was pointed to the west. For perspective, the I-Way Bridge is on the right, Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's Hospitals are in the center of the screen. I circled the streak of light in red below. You can see it behind the exhaust from the smoke stack. In the inset, you can see the pieces of the burning debris that fell off of the object.
Fireball recorded on 5 Dec. 2015 at 21:43 UT in the framework of the SMART Project (www.meteoroides.net). The bolide penetrated the atmosphere till an ending height of about 18 km. A small fraction of the meteoroid survived, and the resulting meteorite fell into the Mediterranean Sea.
Josep Trigo youtube.com Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:25 UTC
A very bright bolide appeared on Nov. 28th, 2015 at 19h07m08s TUC was recorded by Folgueroles SPMN station operated by Pep Pujols (Agrupació Astronòmica d'Osona). Trajectory reconstruction from other 4 stations was made by Dr. J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez (CSIC-IEEC) giving clues on the fragile nature of the meteoroid producing this bright fireball that disrupted abruptly at a height of 80 km. More details in Dec. 4th, 2015 IEEC press release
Comment: Yes, the Geminid meteor shower is active at present. But it is well worth remembering what can come out of the sky without any warning at all, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor from February 2013:
For more on the very high probability of Earth soon being on the receiving end of a major cometary bombardment, and why, see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Comets and Catastrophe series:
and Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 by Pierre Lescaudron
and Laura Knight-Jadczyk