Event: 20240824-031800

Many eyewitnesses in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and New York, along with citizens of the province of Ontario, have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright fireball seen on August 23 at 11:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time (24 August 2024 03:18 UTC). The event was also detected by cameras belonging to the NASA Fireball Network and the Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) and an analysis of the available data places first visibility of the meteor at an altitude of 62 miles above Rose City, Michigan. Moving southeast at 52,000 miles per hour, it managed to reach an altitude of 42 miles before disintegrating above County Highway F 24 near Stylus Lake.

Even though the fireball saturated the meteor cameras, it was not bright enough to be detected from space. The orbit of the object producing the meteor indicates that it was a fragment from a short period comet.

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Images and Video from NASA and Western University's Southern Ontario Meteor Network

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