Fireball meteor above northeastern United States also seen in Hamilton
- Craig Clark
- 11 Nov 2020
A giant fireball flew over the night sky in the Northeastern United States on Sunday.
By Monday morning more than 300 people claimed to have seen the meteor including people as far north as Hamilton.
Hundreds of people spotted a meteor flashing over the U.S. Northeast on Sunday night, with reports from as far away as Lincoln, Ontario, the Montreal area, and Charleston, West Virginia ☄ pic.twitter.com/lWn2isCFwM
— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) November 10, 2020
Based on the time the meteoroid was spotted, it could have been part of the Comet 2P/Enchke that is the source of the fall’s Twin Taurid meteor shower, say The Weather Network.
The meteor shower is known for creating fireballs and usually peaks around November 11th.
Spectators of the fireball meteor in the U.S. said that it looked like a normal shooting star until it started to get much longer and brighter as it continued to fall.
One witness said it got close to the horizon or “about the height an overpass would be in your windshield from about 200 meters away” before the meteor broke up.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) said they received more than 300 calls reporting the meteor.
Me🙋♀️ I saw this! I literally stopped mid sentence to stare. Hardly had time to comprehend what I was seeing! So cool!!!! #HamOnt https://t.co/eOkOGlpMnU
— Laura Jay (@Laura_Jax) November 11, 2020
Most of the calls were from people in Connecticut and New York with a few from Canada.
Some people in Hamilton took to social media to share their story about the fireball they saw flying across the night sky.
The AMS said that the brighter the meteor the rarer the event. They also said that only one-third as many fireballs are “present for each successively brighter magnitude class, following an exceptional decrease.”
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