Blazing fireball over Finland turns night into day

  • 7 years ago
At approximately 6:40 PM local time in Lapland Finland, a meteorite flew across the sky and crashed about 100 miles north in Inari. The fireball which blazed across the sky lit up the night so brightly that it seemed to turn into the afternoon. Tony Bateman who runs Aurora Service tours in Lapland felt his entire cottage shake. Bateman keeps a live feed running of his home in order to better catch the Northern Lights, in the footage you can see a fireball lighting up the night sky. The Meteorite was probably apart of the Leonid meteor shower which peaks around mid November each year.