Anti Pleasure

So, I’m a few days late in reporting this but OH MY… apparently there was a fireball that lit up the WHOLE sky across Alberta and Saskatchewan. It was a 10 TONNE asteroid and it debris and chunks are scattered between both provinces. Observers say the fireball looked as if it was 100-300 feet, the tail end of it. It was a strikingly large streak across the sky, some people have said.

Alan Hildebrand (Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre) said in a press release issued by the university Tuesday:

“Many witnesses reported seeing a cluster of red fragments continuing downwards in the sky after the fireball exploded. These represent the rocks slowing down that will eventually fall to the ground as meteorites.”

Supposedly, the asteroid hit the earth at 14 KM per second, which is slow, so there could be meteorites found in Western Saskatchewan. 

Not only do we have to worry about us destroying our planet, but asteroids from outer space, meteorite showers, eep! Well, hopefully not.  

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