Videos captured a fireball flashing across the Toronto skyline before hitting the ground near Niagara Falls

• A fireball lit up a neighborhood and overtook Toronto early Saturday morning.

• The object was predicted to hit Earth, the sixth time in history that this has happened.

• The European Space Agency said technology for detecting small objects was improving.

A vibrant fireball flashing across the night sky in the early hours of Saturday passed over the Toronto, Canada skyline before hitting the ground near Niagara Falls.

The fireball has been captured in several videos, including One which showed it passing near the CN Tower in the city.

else videotaken from a security camera at the home’s front door, showed the fireball lighting up the entire sky over the neighborhood before gliding past.

The European Space Agency He said that this event marks only the sixth time in history that the impact of a space object on Earth has been successfully predicted. The agency said that while most asteroids hitting Earth are only discovered after fact from evidence such as craters, the number of times a space rock is discovered before it hits is the same. grow.

In fact, all six of the discoveries have been made since 2008, according to the European Space Agency, which said continued improvement in sky-scanning telescopes is likely to make spotting smaller objects — which hit Earth more often — more common.

On the other hand, large asteroids are easier to spot.

Amateur and professional astronomers predicted Saturday’s fireball in the hours leading up to it. The Minor Planet CentreWhich Monitor asteroidssaid a fast-moving object was detected by Clear Mountain Lemon near Tucson, Arizona, which triggered an “imminent impact warning”.

The MPC said seven observatories were able to identify the object before it entered Earth’s atmosphere at about 3:27 a.m. ET over Brantford, Ontario. The object was less than 1 meter in size, according to the European Space Agency.

The term fireball is used to refer to exceptionally bright meteors, commonly called shooting stars, that can be seen over a wide area. According to NASA.

said Mike Hanke of the American Meteorological Society New York times Possible meteorites — debris from a space object — could be detected from Saturday’s event near Niagara Falls.

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