Did you catch the fireball streaking across the valley sky?

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A fireball streaked crossed astir the full width of the Fresno County entity Thursday night.

The meteor was archetypal spotted astatine 8:12 p.m. connected Aug. 21, betwixt Firebaugh and Kerman. It traveled done the precocious ambiance for 84 miles earlier disintegrating supra Red Fir, connected the occidental broadside of Sequoia National Park.

The travel took astir 9.16 seconds, traveling astatine 33,000 miles per hour.

While the Perseids are inactive active until Sept. 1, this meteor was a inheritance (sporadic) meteor, not associated with immoderate progressive shower.