In a remarkable event captured on home security footage, a meteorite crashed onto the driveway of a Canadian couple's home, marking the first time both the visual and audio of such an impact have been recorded.
According to expert Chris Herd, it's an "ordinary chondrite," the most common kind of meteoriteHave you ever wondered what a meteorite hitting Earth sounds like?Last July, Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly,
A meteorite crash-landed on his home’s walkway. Hoping to confirm what he saw on his camera, Velaidum sent his home security video and pictures to Chris Herd, an expert in meteorites at the University of Alberta. Herd confirmed that it was indeed a meteorite and that it was a history-making moment.
A camera in Canada captured the moment a meteorite struck the sidewalk in front of a house. The owner, Joe Velaidum, narrowly avoided tragedy. Scientists emphasize that it's a unique recording. Joe Velaidum from Marshfield,
A home security camera captured the rare event. The homeowner narrowly escaped getting hit. “It probably would’ve ripped me in half.”
The researcher says the meteorite likely broke off from an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. We often see them speed across our. Skies, but in Canada, only about 70 meteorites have been recovered.
A man from Prince Edward Island returned home from walking his dogs to find a pile of dust-like debrison the walkway to his front door, which ended up being caused by a meteorite — and his Ring camera captured it hitting earth in a historic first.
An expert says the meteorite would have been traveling about 124 miles per hour when it smashed into the walkway.
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.
This is the first time the sound of a meteorite hitting Earth has been recorded, the University of Alberta said.
The meteorite landed in Prince Edward Island, caught with visual and sound on camera, and narrowly missing the cameras owner