Astronomers looking for volunteers to help search for possible fallen meteorite in Ontario

TORONTO - Science buffs in central Ontario may be able to score a celestial souvenir after researchers at the University of Western Ontario reported that a blazing meteor captured on video may have fallen to Earth this week along the shore of Georgian Bay.

On Wednesday night at 10:59 p.m. EST, the university's Physics and Astronomy Department's network of all-sky cameras - stationed across southern Ontario - picked up images of a large fireball streaking across the sky.

Brown and Edwards are now trying to find people who are willing to help search for the meteorite or meteorites.

"If you find something, it's technically yours as long as you didn't pick it up off somebody else's property," Edwards said.

"But we certainly would be interested if somebody does find something if they donate it for a little while to the university so we could do some studies on it."

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Perhaps some of our Canadian ATSers that are in Ontario would like to join in the search for possible fragments of this bolide, which is why I'm posting this topic, as well as to inform.

If you do, let us know how you get on

Edit - anyone know what I need to do to get an external image to be displayed in the thread?

[edit on 11-3-2008 by C.H.U.D.]