A Seattle man posted a video showing his property as the fireball appeared across the horizon Wednesday, flashing brightly as it descended through the atmosphere.
SEATTLE – A doorbell camera in Seattle captured a fireball as it flared across the evening sky.
Michael Snyder posted the video taken outside his home on social media showing his property as the fireball appeared across the horizon Wednesday, flashing brightly as it descended through the atmosphere., multiple people throughout Washington and Oregon reported seeing the fireball that evening.A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, according to the AMS. Most meteors are only the size of tiny pebbles.
Several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth’s atmosphere each day, the AMS states. The vast majority of these, however, occur over the oceans and uninhabited regions, and many are masked by daylight.
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