Canada Ping!
Posted on 05/04/2014 6:12:04 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
TORONTO – Dozens of people from Toronto, Oshawa, Peterborough, and surrounding areas reported seeing a bright fireball in the sky Sunday afternoon followed by a loud sonic boom.
Twitter soon exploded with several accounts of the event.
The American Meteor Society received several reports from Toronto, Ajax, Caledon, Port Perry, and Richmond Hill.
“I have watched meteor showers before, but I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. My first thought was that it was a jet on fire and blowing up, but I had time while watching it to decide it must be a meteor,” wrote one person who identified herself as Denise P. on the society’s fireball reporting page.
Jay Callaghan, who lives in Peterborough told Global News, “The kids were outside and heard it. I just came in and was in house when the room shook (I have a brick house so I knew it wasn’t a gust a wind). My first reaction was to check the house, then the latest earthquake data online. Once I saw the Twitter comments on a bright flash, loud boom I knew exactly what it was.”
Not only were there eyewitness reports, but many reported hearing it and feeling houses shake.
(Excerpt) Read more at globalnews.ca ...
Canada Ping!
Bummer.
I rolled off my Toronto project last week.
Cool!
don’t laugh too hard.
One day one of these things is going to hit a populated area.
Meteor crater in AZ in only 50k old.
Probably less, I really don’t think the earth is that old.
It’s almost a shame about Toronto. One of my very good buddies got posted there by Air Canada, so for now I hope they’re spared heh.
Yeah I remember wondering in grade school how they could be so sure that meteors didn’t hit the Earth anymore when looking at the moon you can see the huge craters from 180,000 miles a way.
The best answer I ever got from a science teacher was to answer my question with the question; “If we knew a meteor was going to hit the Earth why would we want to know?”
Mayor taking a “treatment” ???
They told us the Moon was there to shield us from meteors.
Riiiiiight...
Yeah. Well, I guess you told me ...
I promise, from this day forward, to live in mortal fear of being squashed by a meteor.
Life is serious business: no one gets out alive.
Tonight I’m sleeping under my bed. :^)
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It’s my greatest fear that a huge meteorite will slam into Ottawa and do no damage.
That was an alien spy starship skipping thru our atmosphere.
Invasion may start soon.
Between ~1965 and 1985 that would have been WAY bad...
We all saw the absolutely FASTEST thing we had ever observed in our lives travel across the sky: from horizon to horizon (on the near dead-flat prairie) it went through in 90 SECONDS tops!
No sound, nothing but its trail across the sky (I DO have photos).
Damndest thing I ever did see. Including the “dancing stars” in the sky that night at Quartzite. With my Mom.
We need to start a chicken little, Global Bolides movement to parallel the Global Warming movement.Imagine all that research money, dedicated to saving the earth!
(Actually what was classifued as a meteorite over Toronto was merely the return of Kal-El from the planet Krypton)
One day one of these things is going to hit a populated area.
Meteor crater in AZ in only 50k old.
If it hits Detroit, will we know it?
An impact on Detroit would be regarded as an ‘upgrade’.
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