Two meteorite dropping fireballs over Quebec in less than 20 days!

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If you’re a meteorite hunter and you live in Quebec (Canada), take holidays right now! In less than 20 days, two dramatic fireballs enlighted East Canadian skies, leaving potential meteorites behind…

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A first fireball on June 24th, 07h 55min UT…

At the end of the night, while twilight, on June 24th, 2025, 07h 55min UT (03h 55min EDT) a very bright meteor was observed, video recorded (see below), and reported by at least 30 persons (Event #3406-2025, Figure 3) and recorded by 5 DOMe (Detection and Observation of Meteors) and 5 GMN (Global Meteor Network) video stations (Figures 1 & 2). Calulated trajectory shows it had a South-West to North-East direction, starting North of Cornwall, and then passing just over Montreal in direction of Centre-du-Quebec.

Video by Dianne Moffatt (Eden, Pennsylvania, US, report #3406l-2025):

Figure 1- Pictures of the June 24<sup>th</sup>, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec captured by DOMe video stations. Credit: DOMe/Espace pour la Vie, Auriane Egal
Figure 1- Pictures of the June 24th, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada) captured by DOMe video stations. Credit: DOMe/Espace pour la Vie, Auriane Egal
Figure 2- Pictures of the June 24<sup>th</sup>, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec captured by GMN video stations. Credit: Robert Saint-Jean (CA0022, CA0035), Ken Whitnall (CA003D), (CA001R), (CA0031), GMN and Auriane Egal.
Figure 2- Pictures of the June 24th, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada) captured by GMN video stations. Credit: Robert Saint-Jean (CA0022, CA0035), Ken Whitnall (CA003D), (CA001R), (CA0031), GMN and Auriane Egal.
Figure 1- Map of observers who reported the June 24th, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada). The blue arrow is the automatically calculated trajectory of the meteoroid that was at the source of the meteoric event, and the yellow one is calculated from DOMe camera recordings. Credit: AMS, IMO
Figure 3- Map of observers who reported the June 24th, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada, Event #3406-2025). The blue arrow is the automatically calculated trajectory of the meteoroid that was at the source of the meteoric event, and the yellow one is calculated from DOMe camera recordings. Credit: AMS, IMO

…and a potential meteorites strewn field.

Denis Vida (University of Western Ontario) and his team used DOMe and GMN recordings of the fireball to calculate the theoritical meteorites strewn field (Figure 4). Several small sized meteorites (1 to 10 g) could be spread 1 km over the 8th row road, between Saint-Wenceslas and Lemieux (around which new calculations seems to narrow the strewn field). More massive fragments weighting up to 100 g could also have survived the atmospheric entry.

Figure 4- Meteorites strewn field associated to June 24<sup>th</sup>, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada), calculated by Denis Vida (UWO) from DOMe and GMN video recordings. Credit: Denis Vida, Auriane Egal

Figure 4- Meteorites strewn field associated to June 24th, 2025, 07h 55min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada), calculated by Denis Vida (UWO) from DOMe and GMN video recordings. Credit: Denis Vida, Auriane Egal

More information on June 24th, 2025 fireball and meteorite recovery on Espace pour la Vie (Planetarium of Montreal) blog

A second fireball on July 10th, 01h 43min UT…

Another dramatic fireball was observed and recorded by 3 DOMe cameras and 4 GMN video stations (Figure 5) a bit more than two weeks after, on July 10th, 2025, evening, at 01h 43min UT (21h 43min EDT on July 9th). A bit South of the previous one, it was also reported by 15 people (Figure 6, Event #3845-2025).

Figure 5- Pictures of the July 10<sup>th</sup>, 2025, 01h 34min UT fireball over Quebec captured by DOMe and GMN video stations. Credit: DOMe/Espace pour la Vie, Auriane Egal, Global Meteor Network (Luc Turbide, Robert Saint-Jean, Robert Véronneau)
Figure 5- Pictures of the July 10th, 2025, 01h 34min UT fireball over Quebec captured by DOMe and GMN video stations. Credit: DOMe/Espace pour la Vie, Auriane Egal, Global Meteor Network (Luc Turbide, Robert Saint-Jean, Robert Véronneau)
Figure 6- Map of observers who reported the July 10th, 2025, 01h 34min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada). The blue arrow is the automatically calculated trajectory of the meteoroid that was at the source of the meteoric event. Credit: AMS, IMO

Figure 6- Map of observers who reported the July 10th, 2025, 01h 34min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada, Event #3845-2025). The blue arrow is the automatically calculated trajectory of the meteoroid that was at the source of the meteoric event. Credit: AMS, IMO

…and another potential meteorites strewn field!

Denis Vida (University of Western Ontario) and his team used DOMe and GMN recordings of the fireball to calculate the theoritical meteorites strewn field, which extends West of Lac-Brome (Figure 7).

Figure 7- Meteorites strewn field associated to July 10<sup>th</sup>, 2025, 01h 34min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada), calculated by Denis Vida (UWO) from DOMe and GMN video recordings. Credit: Denis Vida, Auriane Egal
Figure 7- Meteorites strewn field associated to July 10th, 2025, 01h 34min UT fireball over Quebec (Canada), calculated by Denis Vida (UWO) from DOMe and GMN video recordings. Credit: Denis Vida, Auriane Egal

More information on July 10th, 2025 fireball and meteorite recovery on Espace pour la Vie (Planetarium of Montreal) blog

 

Last update: July 16th, 2025, 13h 05min UT

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