Meteor Caught On Film

Pretty rare these kinda things are captured on video, especially one of this magnitude.. cool stuff

Video captures massive meteor as it lights up sky in Canada:

UPI.."The night sky exploded with light as a beautifully bright meteor made its way to earth Thursday night, and scientists are chomping at the bit to get their hands on it.

'Picking up a meteorite is almost equivalent to doing a space exploration mission between Mars and Jupiter,' Martin Beech, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Regina, told the Associated Press.

The unique part of this particular meteor is that its passage through the night sky was caught on video.

The dashboard camera on a Canadian police vehicle caught the luminescent event (see video to right). The bright meteor appears at the top of the screen, and as it gets closer, the once black sky goes nearly white.

Tammy Evans was wakened by her 10-year-old daughter who ran into the bedroom.

'She said there was a flash of light, the house shook twice and it sounded like dinosaurs were walking,' Evans said.

Cattle farmer Trevor Crisp told The Canadian Press he was outside when he witnessed the spectacle."

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