[Canada] P.E.I. homeowner captures sound & video of meteorite strike on camera; scientists believe it's a first
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-meteorite-strike-first-audio-1.7430018
video: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6611907
'It probably would've ripped me in half'
* home security camera caught both video/audio of meteorite's impact
* believed to be first sight/sound of a meteorite striking the Earth
Research presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference challenges the extraterrestrial origin theory of a burst of sound waves detected in 2014, initially attributed to a meteor. Instead, the signals are believed to have been caused by a passing truck, as indicated by their directional changes aligning with nearby roadways.
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It's so cool that we can still find evidence for this half a billion years later.
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Teaching about meteor impacts here on Earth? I put this resource together for high school science teachers
https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/astronomy/planets/meteor-impacts/
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