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In the first video we see footage of a fireball generated by a large meteor recently sighted careening over the skies of western Canada. Impressively bright! Since we get only a brief glimpse of the action we've also included another amazing video, below, of a meteor streaking over Guadalajara. It's a common misconception that the heat generated from meteors impacting the atmosphere is due to friction. In fact it's due to a thermodynamic process known as adiabatic compression. Let's see how this works.
12.3.2008 at 12:40am - Comment by bondomani saw a meteor sunday night 11/30/08 looking east from boulder co. it looked like the one you have filmed over edmonton. that is it came down at an angle almost perpendicular and it was at least that big or bigger(from my perspective] with a tail and it turned reddish just as it disappeared over the horizon. i was wandering if anyone else saw this one
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