Cameras record fireball in Western Washington skies

SEATTLE — Cameras captured a fireball plummeting by means of Western Washington skies Monday night time.

The timecode on the video exhibits it occurred shortly after 11 p.m.

Corey Clark mentioned his digicam is in South Seattle and the digicam is pointed north.

Clark was not the one one who reported seeing the meteor.

It was additionally recorded by Daniel Cohen’s sprint digicam whereas he was driving together with his spouse on the northbound Interstate 5 offramp close to Mountlake Terrace.

William K. Smith of Tacoma tweeted that his safety digicam additionally recorded the fireball.

“A fireball is one other time period for a really shiny meteor, usually brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the identical magnitude of the planet Venus as seen within the morning or night sky,” based on the American Meteor Society. “A bolide is a particular sort of fireball which explodes in a shiny terminal flash at its finish, usually with seen fragmentation.”

The meteor isn’t the primary that has been noticed over Western Washington. On Oct. 13, 2022, one was noticed at 10:18 p.m.

AMS asks those that see such an occasion to report it to them with as many particulars as attainable, corresponding to brightness, size throughout the sky, colour, and the way lengthy it lasted.

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