Phil MisiowiecNov 19, 2022

How freakin' cool. A #meteor was picked up by EarthCam's CN Tower webcam in #Toronto.

Several hours before it hit, David Rankin at NASA's Catalina Sky Survey spotted the object, and Michael Busch started a thread: https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/109368965024525842.

As the night unfolded: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/c8ff042_probable_impactor/95129080

EarthCam archives about a day's worth of video, so you can still catch it here: https://www.earthcam.com/world/canada/toronto/cntower/?cam=towerview. Tap Archive, select the 3-4AM clip and scroll to the 3:25:56 mark. #astronomy #space

Michael Busch (@[email protected])

For any asteroid observers who may have telescopes available right now: The new discovery #C8FF042 would be good to observe in the next 140 minutes - https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/object/C8FF042

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Show threadMichael BuschNov 20, 2022
@galactic_surfer All credit goes to the Catalina Sky Survey and at least eight separate groups that very rapidly did follow-up observations and tracked the meteorites down to Lake Ontario.
Show threadMichael Busch
@galactic_surfer @astrokiwi Here's the Minor Planet Electronic Circular listing most of the people who observed 2022 WJ1 while it was still in the sky: https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K22/K22W69.html .
MPEC 2022-W69 : 2022 WJ1

We are the official body that deals with astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.

Nov 20, 2022 at 4:44pmWeb