By Lisa Goudy
Moose Jaw resident Greg Wheler saw a meteor in the northern Moose Jaw skies close to 10 p.m. Monday night.
“It turned bright white with a blue centre and burned up as it flew east to west,” said Wheler in an email to the Times-Herald.
“It caught my eye through my living room window.”
Chris Beckett, volunteer and national observatory chairman of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Regina centre, said
the meteor sighting was most likely part of the tail end of the Quadrantid meteor shower that peaked last week.
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