Western’s all-sky cameras capture bright fireball event

Fireball (brightest light) observed by the CA000P Global Meteor Network camera in Bowmanville, Ontario. Additional streaks are lens reflections. (Photo by Miguel Preciado) A bright fireball was observed by a network of all-sky cameras across southern Ontario at 11:37pm on Sunday, April 17, 2022. Analysis of the video data suggests that fragments of the meteor are likely to have made it to the ground near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe, just north of the town of Argyle. Western University's physics and astronomy department runs an all-sky camera network that constantly monitors the sky for meteors. Denis Vida, who specializes in the study of meteors, confirmed that more than a dozen all-sky cameras of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) captured the event north of Toronto late Sunday evening as did a number of citizen scientist-operated cameras from the Global Meteor Network (GMN). "This fireball was particularly significant because it was moving slowly, was on an asteroidal orbit and ended very low in the atmosphere.