A police dash camera in Lisle, Ill., recorded a meteor flying through the night sky on Sunday, Feb. 5. (Lisle Police Department)This bright green fireball meteor streaked through the sky over Northern Illinois and southeast Wisconsin around 1:30 a.m. Central time and a lucky police officer in a Chicago suburb caught it on his dash cam. More than 200 people reported they saw the meteor, the American Meteor Society says, some from as far east as New York and as far south as Kentucky. Scientists can tell if a meteor produced meteorites based on the flash — the brighter the explosion, the larger the meteor must have been. A fireball is a bright meteor, defined by the American Meteor Society.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2017 15:44 UTC