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Exploding meteor: Bright bolide lights up Friday night sky from Chilliwack to Nanaimo to Seattle
A bolide, or exploding meteor, similar to this one was spotted in the night sky over the Lower Mainland and Western Washington on Friday night.
Photograph by: NASA , The Province
Tina Robertson was just trying to catch a stray cat out in front of her property when she heard it.
“It freaked me right out,” she said.
Then she looked up to see a “big ball of fire.”
“It was moving like hell,” she said. “It was big, but not as big as that one in Russia.”
What she and other witnesses as far afield as Seattle and Nanaimo seem to have seen around 6:50 p.m. Friday was a type of meteor known as a bolide. Bolides are as bright as a full moon; they’re a meteor that doesn’t just burn up as it travels through the atmosphere, it explodes.
(Hat tip to Seattle Twitter user Reb Roush for pointing us all to the term.)
Robertson’s partner Wilf Krickhan was loading up firewood in a bobcat behind the house when he saw the blue-green bolide flash across the sky.
“It freaked me right out,” she said.
Then she looked up to see a “big ball of fire.”
“It was moving like hell,” she said. “It was big, but not as big as that one in Russia.”
What she and other witnesses as far afield as Seattle and Nanaimo seem to have seen around 6:50 p.m. Friday was a type of meteor known as a bolide. Bolides are as bright as a full moon; they’re a meteor that doesn’t just burn up as it travels through the atmosphere, it explodes.
(Hat tip to Seattle Twitter user Reb Roush for pointing us all to the term.)
Robertson’s partner Wilf Krickhan was loading up firewood in a bobcat behind the house when he saw the blue-green bolide flash across the sky.
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