We have an update to bring you regarding the fireball spotted over Renfrew County.
NASA Meteor Watch says over 150 eyewitnesses reported seeing the fireball across the mid-Atlantic, Northeastern part of the US and Canada around 7:30pm Tuesday night (December 7th).
Scientists say video data shows the object at an altitude of 55 miles (89 km) above the New York town of Rossie.
Moving west of north at 30,000 miles per hour (13.4 kilometers per second), the meteor traversed 36 miles (58 kilometers) through the upper atmosphere, crossing the U.S./Canada border before disintegrating 24 miles above the town of Lyn, near Brockville.
NASA Meteor Watch says at its peak, the fireball rivaled the 1st Quarter Moon in brightness.
Combining this information with the speed gives a mass of the object of around 7 pounds (3 kilograms) and a diameter of 5 inches (13 centimeters).
Information from NASA Meteor Watch suggests that this was a small asteroidal fragment, having a very low inclination and an apogee in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
NASA Meteor Watch says the fireball was not a member of the currently active Geminid meteor shower, which peaks on the night of December 13.
