Canadian Cameras Capture Meteor Footage

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2008) — For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a region north of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, that may total as much as a few hundred grams in mass.

You can see video footage of the meteor here. (May require a video codec plug-in).

The footage looks strange because the cameras used fisheye lenses for maximum area of coverage.