{"id":793684,"date":"2025-02-18T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793684"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:36:07","slug":"bright-green-fireball-streaks-over-alberta-and-saskatchewan-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793684","title":{"rendered":"Bright green fireball streaks over Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A bright green fireball was reported across Alberta and Saskatchewan at 02:43 UTC on February 16 (19:43 local time on February 15), with 41 people witnessing the event in both provinces. People from as far south as the Calgary area, north to Fort McKay, and east in the Grande Prairie region reported seeing the event.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball displayed multiple colors, according to Dillon P., one of the observers who reported the sighting to the American Meteor Society (AMS). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt went from a streak like a shooting star, then it exploded, becoming bigger and brighter in a greenish color,\u201d said Dillon. \u201cIt lasted longer than usual and filled the sky. I was on Highway 2 going north, and all the vehicles started to stop,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHlMYva7gxY\" data-id=\"vHlMYva7gxY\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMS event #950-2025 caught from Airdrie CA\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHlMYva7gxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Other reports indicate that the fireball also displayed colors such as orange, yellow, and red. \u201cGlowing white, yellow, and edged with red (night sky, so easy to see),\u201d remarked observer Edward B. from Chipman, Alberta, who also noted a concurrent sound accompanying the fireball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a sound burst, a flash of green, as if nitro slowed down the object, traveling in the opposite direction. Two bursts of ignition flared up bright green, like a highway green sign,\u201d said Edward.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Rm7WjbCNjU\" data-id=\"_Rm7WjbCNjU\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/_Rm7WjbCNjU\/hqdefault.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/_Rm7WjbCNjU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meteor visible from Sherwood Park, Alberta on February 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM.\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Rm7WjbCNjU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Reports indicate that the fireball underwent fragmentation, with some observers noting it immediately after the initial sighting. <\/p>\n<p>Frank Florian, Senior Manager of Planetarium and Space Sciences at TELUS World of Science Edmonton, estimated the size to be about 1 \u2013 2 m (3.3 \u2013 6.6 feet) in size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill fairly sizeable, which means that if it didn\u2019t disintegrate totally in the atmosphere on re-entry, it could have scattered some little bits of rock somewhere in Northern Alberta,\u201d Florian said.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:600px\" data-embed-height=\"546\"><p>Anybody else see this tonight?<br \/>byu\/unr3altac0 inEdmonton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This fireball could indicate the start of the \u2018fireball season\u2019 \u2014 a period when skywatchers can expect an uptick in the sighting of bright meteors.<\/p>\n<p>Fireball season is not linked to a specific meteor shower but rather seems to be associated with an increased density of sporadic meteoroids in Earth\u2019s path around this time \u2014 those that come from random directions in space, unlike shower meteors which all seem to originate from one point in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The increased activity could be due to Earth passing through areas of space with more debris or simply a statistical anomaly where larger meteoroids happen to enter our atmosphere more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>This period is particularly interesting because it doesn\u2019t rely on the predictable patterns of meteor showers, making each fireball sighting potentially unique.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Fireball event 2025-950 \u2013 AMS \u2013 February 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup> Saturday\u2019s fireball over Alberta could be first of many in coming months \u2013 CTV \u2013 February 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><!-- MOLONGUI AUTHORSHIP PLUGIN 5.0.14 --><br \/>\n<!-- https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/wordpress-plugin-post-authors --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2025\/02\/18\/bright-green-fireball-streaks-over-alberta-and-saskatchewan-canada\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright green fireball was reported across Alberta and Saskatchewan at 02:43 UTC on February 16 (19:43 local time on February 15), with 41 people witnessing the event in both&hellip; 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