Photographer Yuichi Takasaka shot this amazing photo of the fireball in Canada’s northern territory of Yellowknife on March 7.
Photo Credit: Yuichi Takasaka

More meteors sightings not strange

Unusually bright meteors described a looking like fireballs have been reported in different parts of Canada in recent weeks, but scientists don’t think that anything unusual is going on.

NASA reports that the nightly rate of fireballs increases 10 to 30 per cent at this time of year, but scientists don’t really know why. Robert Hawkes, a solar system astrophysicist at Mount Allison University in eastern Canada thinks clear weather and the fact the fireballs occurred early in the morning meant they were visible to more people.

People are now easily able to record the sightings on their phones and may be on the lookout after seeing photos of initial sightings.

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