Event: 20241112-004828

Over 200 eyewitnesses in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, Delaware, and the Canadian province of Ontario have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright fireball seen at 7:48 PM Eastern Standard Time on Monday, November 11 (12 November 00:48 UTC). The event was recorded by several cameras belonging to the Southern Ontario Meteor Network and the NASA Fireball Network, as well as some publicly accessible cameras as far away as Long Island. Analysis of the available data places first visibility of the meteor at an altitude of 50 miles above Ischua, New York. It moved southwest at 67,000 miles per hour for roughly 65 miles before disintegrating 23 miles above the forest near Endeavor, Pennsylvania.

The orbit and light curve information suggest that this fireball was produced by a fragment of an asteroid weighing about 6 pounds and having a diameter of approximately 5 inches. It is not associated with the currently active Taurid meteor shower. At its peak, the fireball was about as bright as the Quarter Moon.

We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness reports.

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

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Event Data