So, last night over western Canada, a meteor light up the sky in a blaze of light as it streaked down towards our planet. Thankfully, our atmosphere did it’s job, and provided quite a show, along with saving us from a monumental impact.

Jared passed me along a YouTube video taken from a police car’s dashboard camera in Edmonton, which so far seems to have the best view of the entire event. Quite cool. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw

Naturally, the Canadian media is all over it:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/20/alberta-meteor.html

I wish I saw this with my own eyes. I love stellar phenomena.

Still, kinda makes you wonder about how NASA says it is trying to keep an eye on potentially Earth-shattering (huh huh) chunks of rock. Did they see this one? Perhaps they did, and thought “Well, it’s only going to hit Canada… in the prairies… which is basically just a mix of farmland and snow-covered wasteland anyway…”

Jerks.