EDIS Number: CO-20120222-34266-CAN
Date / time: 22/02/2012 12:44:11 [UTC]
Event: Event into space
Area: North-America
Country: Canada
State/County: Province of Saskatchewan
Location: [North Battleford area]
Number of Deads: N/A
Number of Injured: N/A
Number of Infected: N/A
Number of Missing: N/A
Number of Affected: N/A
Number of Evacuated: N/A
Damage level: N/A
Description:
A meteor that lit up the night sky of western Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta Tuesday night likely landed in the North Battleford area. Those who saw the meteor as it passed through the Earth's atmosphere about 9:45 p.m. described it as a streak or a bright flash of light across the sky. "I get up, I look east and there was a great ball of fire coming out of the sky. It was kind of an orange-yellow on the first part of the ball and then it had a green-reddish tail on the end of it," eyewitness Shane Taylor said. Alan Hildebrand, a professor in the department of geoscience at the University of Calgary, confirmed the flash was a meteor. He says video of the meteor's path was captured in Calgary and Lucky Lake. Hildebrand says the chunk of asteroid broke up on impact with the Earth's surface and weighed about 100 kilograms.Event updates:
Situation Update No. 1 on 2012-02-23 at 04:20:46.
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