Meteor lights up the sky over St. Louis, southern IL

  • by Carmen Reese
  • in Science
  • — Nov 13, 2019
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The meteor sighting came amid the peak of the Taurid meteor shower, the collective name of two meteor streams that happen at the same time: the North Taurids and South Taurids, McClatchy news group reported. Most sightings were reported in Missouri, but people in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nevada, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wisconsin have also registered sightings with the scientific society.

Another shot of the meteor was captured on a door bell camera in a suburb of St. Louis. AMS compiled a video of some of the best looks at the fireball, including a view of it lighting up the sky near the landmark St Louis Gateway Arch.

A very small object traveling very fast through the atmosphere caused the stunning display, said Will Snyder, manager of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center. "We looked at each other and thought, 'What the heck was that?'" Many meteors exceed that velocity, Snyder said.

"The meteor moved to the northwest at 33,500 miles per hour, travelling some 70 miles through Earth's atmosphere before ablating 12 miles above the town of Bridgeport, northeast of Hermann". The meteor would need to be much bigger to make a crater. The Alpha Monocerotids are expected to light up the night sky on Thursday, Nov. 21, around 10:30 p.m.

If you caught sight of the dazzling meteor that blazed across the Missouri sky Monday night, you saw no ordinary shooting star - it was a fireball.

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