A doorbell camera has captured the remarkable moment a meteorite struck the ground outside a home, scattering dust and producing audible impact sounds—a historic first, according to University of Alberta scientist Chris Herd.
In July 2024, Laura Kelly and her partner Joe discovered the rock outside their home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, marking the province's first recorded meteorite fall.
The meteorite left a small dent in the walkway and the rock was confirmed to be ordinary chondrite, the most common type of space rock to strike Earth.
The festive holidays brought an out-of-this-world experience for one Stratford family.
The Butlers, who live on Birmingham Road, heard a strange bang at 10.30pm on Boxing Day.
Next morning when they went outside, Paul Butler was baffled to find his mum and dad's car, left safely on his drive within a secure courtyard and well away from the road, had a cracked windscreen.
Events took an even weirder turn when Paul's youngest son Nathan found a strange-looking rock on the ground near the car.
About two centimetres long, it's jet black with shiny bits and doesn't look like any other rocks they've ever seen.
This video shows a superb bolide recorded over Spain on January 9, at 22:08 local time (equivalent to 21:08 universal time). It was brighter than the full Moon. The fireball was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks.
The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 67,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Palencia and León (northern Spain). It began at an altitude of about 86 km over the locality of Lomas (province of Palencia), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 23 km over the locality of Joara (province of León).
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
