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RE: Toronto meteor

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What Richard Yip-Chuck saw fall into a farmer's field Sunday evening looked like a long, white ball with orange sparks shooting off the back.
The Holland Landing resident was driving along Hwy. 7 with his wife, Ele, and sons Kyle, 12, and 10-year-old Dylan, when they saw what looked like a fireball plummet to earth.

"There were sparks coming out of the back. It was wild" - Mr. Yip-Chuck.

The bright flashes of light in the sky Sunday led to police switchboards in Toronto, York and Durham regions lighting up with people wondering what was happening.
People called saying they had seen a fireball in the sky between 8 and 8:30 p.m.

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A bright streak across Sunday's night sky, perhaps with a greenish tinge, was probably meteorite.
What might have been a tad exceptional is the size of the rock, said Paul Delaney, a professor of physics and astronomy at York University.

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Cynthia Crowther had just lit a cigarette outside her Newmarket home when the sky suddenly caught fire.

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Was it a planet? A plane? A meteorite? Little green men? Whatever it was, residents across Waterloo Region saw something unusual in the night’s sky yesterday. Around 8 p.m., the calls started coming into police stations, describing a fiery display streaking across the horizon.

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Sunday March 11th at about 8 PM -People throughout the GTA witnessed a fireball moving across our sky towards the west. Police switchboards from the Regions of Durham, York and Toronto started to receive the calls of the curious and the concerned. Was it a plane in distress? A meteor shower? A UFO? Maybe even "space junk" such as a spent rocket booster finally making it back to Earth after years in orbit.

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Witness: 'Mammoth fireball' about 300 feet in diameter
Joe Arcuri from Deerfield was driving along the Thruway headed to work when he saw a fireball rise into the sky from the Oneida train explosion.

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A meteor lit up the skies over West Michigan early Sunday evening. Planetarium Director, Eric Schreur, who heads up the astronomy program at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum says this was *not* a UFO.

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The bright flash of light seen streaking across Toronto's sky last night was likely a meteoroid or piece of space debris, a University of Toronto professor says.
Police switchboards in Toronto, York and Durham regions received several calls from people who had seen a fireball in the sky between 8 and 8:30 p.m.
Police believed the mysterious object was likely a meteoroid - or shooting star - which leaves a trail of light as it burns and breaks up while falling from space through the Earth's atmosphere.

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-- Edited by Blobrana at 20:52, 2007-03-12