Meteorite 1

Gather around kids, story time.


I saw my first meteorite when I was in my first year of college.
I definitely won't forget what I saw.

On September 25 at 9:03 p.m. EST I was sitting in the passenger seat of my friends car travelling towards Kitchener, Ontario on the 401.
We were just enjoying the drive, not even carrying a conversation.
A light flickers from the sky. It was bright enough to trigger your human instinct to immediately pay attention to your surroundings.

This flicker of light grew quickly.
It was night time, but the light became so bright that it was over 100 times brighter then a full moon.
It was in the sky long enough for me to be concerned about the other drivers being distracted on the 401.

Only once before have I seen a natural occuring light that has made the night look brighter then the daytime (a lightening strike).

The next day, I researched what we saw and had no luck with my searchings.
But alas, the following week I saw "The Daily Planet" talking about the most recent meteorite, the one that I saw.
The meteorite that I saw was the most recorded meteorite in history.
It just so happened to fall above Western University's astronomy program where they had  7 All-Sky cameras capture the meteorite.