If you happened to be looking skyward over Metro Vancouver on Thursday afternoon, you may have been lucky enough to catch a shooting star so bright it was visible in broad daylight.
Motorist Al Dinis caught the bright flash on his dashcam as he was eastbound on Marine Way at North Fraser Way in Burnaby, around 1:30 p.m.
Dinis most likely saw a meteor — a lump of space rock that’s been captured by earth’s gravitational force, says Rachel Wang, an astronomer at Vancouver’s HR MacMillan Space Centre. “When they enter Earth’s atmosphere and then they start burning up and if they become really bright they’re fireballs, or normally we call them shooting stars,” she said.