Posted on 01/16/2025 11:00:42 AM PST by Red Badger
The impact was captured using a door camera.
Image credit: Compass Media/Joe Velaidum
For possibly the first time ever, a meteorite has been captured on video and audio as it struck the Earth, just outside one man's home.
Joe Velaidum, of Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada, was standing outside his home last July, before setting off for a walk with his dog. If he had lingered a little longer, he may have become the second person in history to have been confirmed to be hit by a meteorite.
"It is surreal to think about just rare and how close this encounter was. I was standing right at the point of impact, just minutes prior," Velaidum told Compass Media.
“My partner Laura and I decided to take the dogs for a quick walk. There was nothing unusual about that at all. Except that I stopped on the walkway to move a dog leash because the landscapers were scheduled to come and mow the lawn later that day, and the dog leash was on the grass. So I thought I would help. I never stop in that spot."
“In retrospect, if I had stayed in that exact spot for just a minute or two longer, I would certainly have been hit by a meteor and probably would have been killed. So, when I was innocently moving that dog lead, a meteor was hurling towards me."
Fortunately, Velaidum and his dogs were clear of the area when the meteorite struck, and he did not know anything was up until he returned from his walk and found strange dark debris on the floor. Checking his door camera, he found that there was footage of the moment the debris was deposited, and it looked an awful lot like a meteor impact. Astonishingly, in several frames of the video before impact, you can see the meteorite falling to Earth.
VIDEO AT LINK.............
After Laura's father suggested that the small explosion could be a meteorite impact, Velaidum diligently collected samples of the debris, sending around 7 grams (0.24 ounces) of it to Chris Herd, the University of Alberta's meteorite collection curator.
Though the Earth doesn't make a fuss about it, every day it is bombarded with around 44,000 kilograms (48.5 tons) of meteoritic material. Most of it burns up harmlessly in our atmosphere, but some material does make it to the ground, where its composition can be studied. Looking at the samples sent to him, and further samples he and Velaidum collected from the area, Herd determined that they were chondrite, the oldest known rocks whose components formed during the birth of the Solar System.
“It’s mind blowing to think that this hunk or rock travelled hundreds of millions of miles and landed on our front doorstep where I was standing, exactly, a few minutes prior," Velaidum added.
While the most common type of meteorite, the overall incident is extremely rare. Why? Well, it may just be the only time we have captured video and audio of a meteorite hitting the ground.
"It's not anything we've ever heard before," Herd told CBC News. "From a science perspective, it's new."
"No other meteorite fall has been documented like this, complete with sound,” he added in a University of Alberta statement. “It adds a whole new dimension to the natural history of the Island.”
According to Herd, the meteorite was likely traveling around 60,000 kilometers per hour (37,282 miles per hour) as it entered the atmosphere, before slowing down to a terminal velocity of around 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles per hour) before hitting the ground. Luckily for Velaidum, that came a few minutes after he had left the area.
Oh, never mind. I was thinking of MH370.
Never mind I was thinking of MH370.
Malaysia Flight 370 was sucked up by a rogue mini black hole so I guess it’s possible.
A meteor strike on MH 370 would be as plausible an explanation as any.
If a meteor hit the
Cockpit or nose section ,that would knock out the avionics and depressurized the aircraft.
I heard a meteorite once. I brushed it off as just the neighbors upstairs. In the morning I saw in the sky clouds that seemed like rocket trails, but there was nowhere that could have launched them. It was only after seeing the news that I got the complete story.
Recently saw a picture of a crater in Arizona caused by a meteor.
It was remarkable how close it came to hitting the Visitors’ Center.
What’s all that green stuff in his yard?
— A Texan
Put that Bible back on the shelf, Mr. Velaidum.
I guess I was expecting some kind of explosion.
With all of that open space to hit, it landed on the patio, either before the wall, or perhaps the wall itself. If it had hit the wall I would have expected the wall to sustain some damage from something moving at 124 MPH.
Did she get super powers from it?
It was. Meteor shower. Across several states.
Here it is breaking up : )
https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115
What was actually captured was the vapor trail of the bullet in of itself a difficult feat. Immediately behind the bullet is a virtual vacuum and water vapor will become visible due to condensation.
LOL !!! That’s what all of those people from yankee land and kommiefornica try to grow in their yards in the Hill Country !!! They never get it through their thick skulls there’s a reason why the Hill Country has Mesquite trees, Cacti, Juniper trees and scrub grass. THERE’S NOT ENOUGH WATER TO MAKE EVERYTHING INTO A flog course...
Anyone remember the mysterious “Blue Meteoroid” that landed in I think the 80’s?
Someone tried to put it in the freezer to save it of a collector till it was clear it was waste dump from an airliner.
LOL
Plus, the multitude of deer eat everything green.
No shortage of Bambi around Canyon Lake area. The trouble is that they’re skinny from over population.
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