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What was that in the sky?

What was that in the sky?

A bright meteor was seen from the Bay Area on Wednesday evening at twilight. 

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Image credit: https://bgr.com/2018/12/20/streak-in-sky-california-sighting/

A bright meteor was seen from the Bay Area on Wednesday evening at twilight. 
The meteor was just below our CAMS camera fields. We did detect a flash at 01:34:48 UT (17:34:48 PST) in one of our cameras at Lick Observatory aiming west-south-west -- CAMS stands for Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance, led by SETI Institute senior research scientist Peter Jenniskens.

There's a very nice compilation of videos and photos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiNPYwtUYMo

Many people reported this meteor to the American Meteor Society: https://amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_reports?event=PENDING

The meteor was relatively slow and there may have been a meteorite fall over the Pacific Ocean. 

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