Lighting up the sky: Canada’s history of meteorites Florian said meteors can come from any direction.“We get stuff falling on the Earth every single day — tons of it — but again, just being in the right place and right time to see something like this and getting these really large ones that create a very loud bang, you know, it’s reminiscent of what happened to Chelyabinsk in Russia,” he said.That bright fireball on Feb.
15, 2013 lit up the morning sky, several times brighter than the sun, casting moving shadows as it crossed the sky.Against the enormous stresses as it entered the atmosphere, the massive piece of rock began to break apart 30 kilometres above earth, sending out a sonic boom that shattered windows and injured nearly 1,000.