The inhabitants of the North noticed a fiery meteor in the sky

According to The New York Times, residents of Ontario, Canada and some areas in the northern United States woke up to loud

booms early Saturday morning as a fireball lit up the night sky. Since then, several pictures of fireballs have appeared on social networks.

Later information about a luminous object in the skypublished by the European Space Agency Twitter account. “An object <1 meter appeared in the sky above Niagara Falls. For only the sixth time, global asteroid warning systems detected it before impact with Earth’s atmosphere,” ESA said.

According to the American Meteor Society, a "fireball in the sky" is any meteor that appears brighter than the planet Venus when seen in the morning or evening.

The meteor, which has been temporarily named #C8FF042,Astronomers noticed it when it was still in space and several hours "flight" from the Earth's atmosphere. The object was detected by detectors at the Mount Lemmon Survey Observatory, which is located at an altitude of 2,791 m above sea level in the Santa Catalina Mountains northeast of Tucson, Arizona, USA.

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