Fireball that streaked over Quebec was likely a meteorite

A physics professor at Dalhousie University says a bright fireball seen streaking across the northern skies of the Maritimes and Quebec earlier today was likely a meteorite.

Jim Drummond says what are typically called shooting stars are actually meteorites that are heating up as they burst through the Earth’s atmosphere.

Drummond says it’s a fairly common occurrence and those that are seen can be as small as a pea, depending upon what they are made of and how they come through the atmosphere.

A series of stills released by Nova Scotia Webcams show a “bright flash” and a “light in the sky.”

Rick Parker, who lives on Mattatall Lake near Wentworth, N.S., says he woke up just before 5 a.m. and saw a bright fireball light up the sky.  TRUNews