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      Family sees meteorite hit ground
  
      Michael Power
  
      Yorkregion.com
  
      March 15, 2007
  
  
      What Richard Yip-Chuck saw fall into a farmer's field Sunday 
  
      evening looked like a long, white ball with orange sparks 
  
      shooting off the back.
  
  
      The Holland Landing resident was driving along Hwy. 7 with 
  
      his wife, Ele, and sons Kyle, 12, and 10-year-old Dylan, 
  
      when they saw what looked like a fireball plummet to earth.
  
  
  "There were sparks coming out of the back," Mr. Yip-Chuck 
      said. "It was wild."
  
  
      The bright flashes of light in the sky Sunday led to police 
  
      switchboards in Toronto, York and Durham regions lighting 
  
      up with people wondering what was happening.
  
  
      People called saying they had seen a fireball in the sky 
  
      between 8 and 8:30 p.m.
  
  
      The Yip-Chucks, who were returning from hockey games in 
  
      Lindsay where both sons play on the same team, saw the 
  
      meteorite hit a farmers' field west of Lindsay, about an 
  
      hour from Newmarket.
  
  
      His younger son, Dylan, thought the fireball might 
      
  
      have been a UFO, Mr. Yip-Chuck said.
  
  
  "He was freaking out, saying, 'We've got to get off the 
      road,'" he said. "But it was really cool, moving really 
      fast. Whatever was coming off it was really bright."
  
  
      The ball of light at first appeared to be a meteor, but 
  
      also seemed too large for a falling rock, said Mr. 
  
      Yip-Chuck's older son, Kyle.
  
  
      The ball looked to be about the size of a car, said Kyle, 
  
      who plays for the York Simcoe Express AAA hockey team.
  
      
  
      The meteorite was probably about the size of a fist, 
  
      given so many people in the GTA were able to see it, 
  
      said Paul Delaney, a professor of physics and astronomy 
  
      at York University.