Camera-equipped intercom successfully records 'the moment of meteorite impact' and captures the loud impact sound
A doorbell camera installed at a home in Prince Edward Island, Canada captured the falling of a meteorite that hit Earth in July 2024.
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On July 25, 2024, Joe Vereidam and Laura Kelly, a couple from Prince Edward Island, returned home from walking their dog and found some kind of debris scattered on their front porch.
So Velidham and his team checked the video recorded by the Ring doorbell at the home, which you can see below.
Rocks came flying out of nowhere.
The rock fell in front of the entrance and broke into pieces with a loud crash.
It was also reported that the falling rocks created a small crater about 2cm in diameter at the entrance to Veladam's home.
Using magnets and other tools, Velidam and his team collected the scattered fragments, weighing about 7 grams. They then reported the series of videos and fragment samples to the University of Alberta's Meteorite Reporting System, where Professor Chris Hurd of the Faculty of Science analyzed the video footage and fragment samples.
Hurd identified the rocks as a meteorite impact, and detailed analysis revealed that the meteorite was a chondrite , a type of meteorite made up mainly of silicate minerals, and that it had been traveling at speeds of up to 200km per hour just before the impact.
According to NASA, about 43 tons of meteorites fall to Earth every day, most of which fall into the oceans, which cover about 70% of the Earth's surface.
'This is the first time that a meteorite has been captured on both video and audio,' said Hurd. 'I was standing there for two minutes before the meteorite hit. If it had hit me directly, I would have been seriously injured.'
On January 13, 2025, the International Meteorological Society named the meteorite the ' Charlottetown Meteorite ' after the place where it fell.
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