Meteor lights up the skies over Alberta [Video]

It only lasted a few seconds, but it lit up social media Wednesday morning.

A meteor, streaking across the sky around 6:30 a.m., sent many Albertans scrambling to see if it was caught on their dashcams and home security cameras.

Gary Boyle, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, tells Global News the Earth is hit by tonnes of meteors every day but most are “just fine grains of sand, brought in by Earth’s gravity, and (they) vaporize.”

Boyle, who is also known as “The Backyard Astronomer,” said the flash that lit up the sky Wednesday morning “looks like it was a large piece that hit the atmosphere and broke apart in little pieces.”

“They come in all shapes and sizes,” Boyle said. “The small ones are mostly vaporized (when) we see a streak in the sky.”

However, in order to survive its entry into Earth’s atmosphere, Boyle …