Niagara area residents asked to search for space rocks after meteorite crash

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Scientists are calling on people in Ontario’s Niagara region to keep an eye out for pieces of a meteorite that crashed down in the area this weekend.

The meteorite lit up the sky between Toronto and Hamilton early on Saturday morning and let off a sonic boom before it broke up in the atmosphere.

Such meteorites are collisional debris from larger asteroids in the main asteroid belt, said Brown, who is also a Western University physicist. It likely broke off millions of years ago from a larger asteroid and then drifted into the inner solar system before eventually colliding with our planet, he said.

Telescopes and asteroid-monitoring technology have improved in the last few years and enabled researchers to detect this meteorite before it hit, Brown said. Brown said his research group believes small pieces of the meteorite made it to the south shore of Lake Ontario, around Grimsby and Vineland, and larger pieces that could weigh several kilograms landed north of St. Catharines.

“Just with the weather conditions they didn’t have much luck finding anything. It’s quite a large area,” she said. “It’s sort of a needle in the haystack to be able to find it.”

 

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