Meteor Flashes Across Toronto’s Night Sky Before Crashing Into Earth Near Niagara Falls

Trail from a meteor of the Perseid meteor showerMary ManleyThe “fireball” marks the sixth time in history that a space object’s impact on Earth has been predicted before touching down on land. The European Space Agency (ESA) shared a video of the meteor which resembled a shooting star that passed through on Saturday morning, lighting up the CN tower as it soared through the sky.A meteor, which resembled a shooting star, passed through the night sky of Toronto early on Saturday morning. The meteor, named #C8FF042, was detected hours before it entered the atmosphere, a rare chunk of time to receive such a notice of an object before it enters Earth’s sphere, said Sarah Rugheimer, an associate professor of astrophysics at York University.