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A meteorite could be seen in the sky over the Niagara region Saturday morning (@SarahGorsline/Twitter).
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Residents in the Niagara region are being told to keep an eye out for pieces of meteorite that plunged into the area last weekend.

Those living in the Golden Horseshoe could see the meteorite lighting up the sky around 3:25 a.m. on Saturday morning.

Peter Brown, a physicist at Western University, says his research group believes small pieces of the meteorite fell onto the south shore of Lake Ontario near Grimsby and Vineland, and larger pieces landed north of St. Catharines.

Brown says the meteorite weighed about 500 kilograms and was less than a metre in diametre when it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

Those living in the area could hear the sonic boom the meteorite caused as it was moving about 40 times the speed of sound before it broke up in the atmosphere.

Kim Tait, a mineralogy, meteorite and gem curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, says a group of researchers looked around the area for the space rocks last weekend, but they couldn’t find anything because of the snowy weather.

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