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Sound of meteorite striking Earth caught on doorbell camera

www.bbc.com Sound of meteorite striking Earth caught on doorbell camera

Experts from the University of Alberta believe this is the first time audio of a meteorite fall is recorded.

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One of the perks of having so darn many cameras everywhere - we get to capture rarely recorded events like this regularly.
- American doorbell cams are the new Russian dashcam. Only main difference is that American doorbell cams are directly connected to the cloud/police.
- I know you are speaking in general about rare things but this specific instance it said it was an historic first. That’s wild
  
  What's truly wild is a news source providing the video at the top of the story without any overlays, talking heads or extraneous crap. Astonishing.
- And yet still no ghost, aliens, yeti, etc.
  
  If only people realized how they need to betray their intellectual integrity to believe in any of those.
- People used to think the notion of rocks falling out of a clear blue sky was bullshit. And here we are.
  
  I was expecting it to sound like a bullet
It sounds like gravel being thrown on a hard surface.

Saved you a click.
- Sounds like a meteor hit Earth, saved you a click
  
  thank you guy
- It also is able to be seen hitting the ground, so I'm not sure why they chose to only mention the audio.
  
  Because this is possibly the first known time we have recorded audio of a meteorite hitting the ground, but it's not the first time we have recorded the vision of a meteorite hitting the ground.
I'm surprised it didn't make a bigger hole in their bricks.
- Most meteors that reach all the way to the surface are really small. Bigger impacts are rare, buy not impossible.
  
  still i bet it would absolutely suck to get hit by that
Meteorite goes Bish!
Imagine that causing your death. Wild.
Terrifying
Hopefully, we will not need a Ripley soon.
Are we sure that isn't something that fell off of an airplane?
- tested as ordinary chondrite, the most common type of space rock to strike Earth.
- The article is three short paragraphs and has the answer at the bottom.
  If people cannot be bothered to read beyond headlines we are truly fucked.
  
  brother, we are truely fucked. you can remove the "if"
- You mean like the front falling off?

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