The hazards of living too close to an asteroid belt

[isomeme]

This video was taken from a police vehicle in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  They figure the rock involved was a couple of meters in diameter; there's a search on for fragments that may have reached the ground.

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[bioentropy]

They were talking on the local news this morning about our own lightshow here in Vancouver last night. I wonder if they could be related.

This is the best video I have seen of this kind of thing. Fantastic!

[chimpstop]

I remember when this story broke, last week, and was stunned how midnight dark it was there at just a little after 5 PM...but then again it is Canada and we are just a month out from Winter Solstice.

I've only seen a few good fireballs with my own eyes in my life: the first in the Anza Borrego Desert driving up the S-2 toward Bow Willow, actually still on the Imperial Highway Section of it in Imperial County, just before the drop down into the Chorizo Gorge complex. It burned up or impacted somewhere around the lowest point in the State Park.

The other was a piece of Space Junk from the back side of Metabolife's Distributor Relations Building at the original location, on a "smoke break" with our primary network Admin...he was smoking, I was just talking with him about our up coming extension into the new warehouse across town. We stopped as a Green Fireball shot over the summit of Mt. Soledad heading east and "winking out" somewhere over the Miramar Marine Airbase.

[christeos_pir]

I though 'pokce' was a kind of Korean soup? *ducks*

[isomeme]

Yes, this was taken from a Korean-soup delivery van, the sort one often encounters in Alberta.

((fixing it now))

[ihateswine]

i would've shit my drawers and crashed the car if i saw that