(meteorobs) Daylight fireball over Canada and N.E. U.S.

[Robert Lunsford]

The American Meteor Society has received over 30 reports of this event and I anticipate that many more will be received in the next day or two. Summaries of these reports can be viewed on the 2014 AMS fireball table at: 

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2014/1062

Clear Skies!

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

---- dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de wrote: 
> About two hours ago a daylight fireball about as bright as the Sun has
> been widely seen over the wider Toronto area, with reports also from the
> northeastern U.S. and numerous photographs of a white contrail in the blue
> sky afterwards. See
> http://skyweek.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-3-mai-2014/#Mai5
> for links to three report collections and then some individual reports as
> well. Wonder whether there are *any* all-sky daylight cameras operating in
> the region that may have caught the bolide as such.
> 
> Daniel