A bright fireball lit up dark midwinter skies above Illinois,Cinema Movies | Cinema Movies free | Cinema Movies latest 2022 Wisconsin and a handful of other states early Monday.
Videos show the green meteor moving slowly from southwest to northeast at around 2:30 a.m. ET Monday.
SEE ALSO: Dashcam catches mystery fireball lighting up sky over ScotlandAccording to reports posted on the American Meteor Society's (AMS) website, the fireball was accompanied by sound and some eyewitnesses even claim that a piece of the space rock made it all the way to the ground.
The AMS has received 222 reports about the fireball so far.
"I have never seen such a large and bright object coming through the sky," Sheila S. said in her report from Woodstock, Illinois. "I have seen meteors of the meteor showers every August in Seattle when I was living there, but they were tiny in comparison to what I saw tonight."
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable As is the case with many astronomical events these days, people have been posting videos of the Midwest meteor online.
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Meteors are small pieces of dust, rock and ice that slam into Earth's atmosphere. Because of the intense friction produced during those collisions, the meteor leaves a streak of light in its wake.
Small bits of ice and dust vaporize before ever reaching Earth's surface, but larger space rocks can sometimes produce a fragment that makes it all the way to the planet.
These leftover rocks are known as meteorites.
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