Videos captured a fireball flashing across the Toronto skyline before hitting the ground near Niagara Falls

• A fireball lit up a neighborhood and overtook Toronto early Saturday morning.

• The object was expected to strike the Earth, the sixth time in history that this has occurred.

• The European Space Agency said the technology for detecting small objects is improving.

A vibrant fireball flashing across the night sky early Saturday flew over the skyline of Toronto, Canada before hitting the ground near Niagara Falls.

The fireball has been captured in several videos, including One which showed him passing by the CN Tower in the city.

other videocaught on a security camera at the front door of the house, it showed the fireball lighting up the entire sky above the neighborhood before gliding past.

The European Space Agency He said this event marks only the sixth time in history that the impact of a space object on Earth has been successfully predicted. The agency said that while most asteroids hitting Earth are only discovered after the fact from evidence like craters, the number of times a space rock is discovered before it hits is the same. to grow up.

In fact, all six discoveries have been made since 2008, according to the European Space Agency, which said continued improvements in sky-scanning telescopes could make it more common to spot smaller, Earth more often.

On the other hand, large asteroids are easier to spot.

Amateur and professional astronomers predicted Saturday’s fireball in the preceding hours. The Minor Planet CenterWhich Monitor asteroidssaid a fast moving object was detected by Light mountain lemon near Tucson, Arizona which triggered an “imminent impact warning”.

The MPC said seven observers were able to identify the object before it entered Earth’s atmosphere at around 3:27 a.m. ET above Brantford, Ontario. The object was less than 1 meter in size, according to the European Space Agency.

The term fireball is used to refer to exceptionally bright meteors, commonly called shooting stars, that can be seen over a large area. According to NASA.

said Mike Hanke of the American Meteorological Society New York Times Possible meteorites – debris from a space object – could be detected from Saturday’s event near Niagara Falls.

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