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A fireball shows up on a camera on the roof of a building at the University of Wisconsin- Madison on February 1, 2016

(University of Wisconsin - Madison)

A fireball was seen in the sky over Michigan at 7:27 p.m. on February 1, 2016.

Fireball is the term used for a meteorite that has a brightness more than Venus.

The fireball was seen traveling from the Wisconsin sky to the Michigan sky.

Here is a video of the fireball from the roof of a building at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on February 1, 2016.

Richard Walker, astronomer from Longway Planetarium in Flint, says fireballs can be caused by space rocks rubbing against Earth's atmosphere. The friction causes the rock to heat up and glow.

Walker says it is hard to know the size of this recent fireball. It could be as tiny as a grain of sand to as large as a basketball, or even the size of a car. The larger fireballs can land on Earth, but there was no report of it hitting Earth in this case.

There was another fireball caught on camera two nights before. Here is the video from pilot Mike Grossman on January 30th, 2016 at 6:16PM near Laguardia Airport in New York.

NASA actually has a camera network set up only to look for fireballs all night long, every night.

Here is the final video of the fireball.

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MLive Chief Meteorologist Mark Torregrossa has been forecasting Michigan weather for more than 25 years. He's been chief meteorologist at three television news stations in Michigan, and he's an avid gardener and hunter. Email him at mtorregr@mlive.com and find him on Facebook at facebook.com/mark.torregrossa and Twitter @weathermanmark