Doorbell cameras aren’t just for busting home invaders and porch pirates. A Ring camera captured the sound of a meteorite crash-landing near a house in Prince Edward Island, Canada, marking the first time this interstellar noise had been recorded alongside video footage.
A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio recording of a meteorite crash. It came by chance from a doorbell camera, recorded last July near the front steps of a home in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.
The meteorite was a run-of-the-mill stony chondrite that traveled to Earth from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it would have been traveling at least 125 mph (200 km/h) right before it struck, he said. Space rocks are constantly hitting ...
Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.
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,
Herd believes the meteorite that struck Velaidum's property came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The meteorite traveled through the cold depths of space at thousands of miles an hour and encountered hot temperatures through Earth's ...
Researchers from Bern have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite in Oman. It is the second such find in which the Natural History Museum in Bern has
Herd believes the meteorite that struck Velaidum's property came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The meteorite traveled through the cold depths of space at thousands of miles an ...
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.
The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier
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.
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.