A meteorite crashing into the ground was caught on a home security camera. Neat!
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A meteorite crashing into the ground was caught on a home security camera. Neat!
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Uh, does home owners insurance cover meteor strikes? Just asking because WTF.
Does insurance cover anything anymore?
A friend of mine who collects meteorites went out after a meteor exploded over his neighborhood, and while searching around noticed a house with new damage to its shingles. Looking closer, he found a suspicious-looking rock right where it would have bounced from the damaged roof. So he went to the the house, and offered to pay for fixing the roof damage (plus extra for the meteorite) in exchange for getting to keep not only the meteorite, but also the damaged shingles. The combination of the meteorite and the damage that it did apparently significantly increases the value of the meteorite to collectors. So, the homeowner didn’t need it to be covered by insurance.
Since this recording included audio, I can’t help but wonder why it didn’t include any sound of the meteorite going through the air.
@4 guessing. Noting that it was nearly 100 grams and that it didn’t make a dent or a crack in the bricks it hit, I would say it was traveling fairly slowly, having been slowed by the atmosphere, and was;t making sound that could be picked up bu the crappy microphone on the doorbell. Either too quiet, or maybe too low a pitch. Guessing.
It seems that was in Canada. Before seeing that, I had this image of some lunkhead in this country wearing a maga hat trying to catch it in his baseball glove, LOL.
I have heard meteors hissing overhead a few times. The first time was when I was a kid with my dad at a baseball game. As I remember it was a large fireball that made a noise loud enough to attract people’s attention.
shermanj @ #6 — “PEI” to be precise, Prince Edward Island, in eastern Canada in the south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence near New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Of course somebody made this, for Billy Joel fans.
that meteorite could have hit someone! almost did!
the government has wasted money on DEI initiatives that take money away from projects that could prevent meteors from illegally entering North America. NASA needs to build a dome to keep out rogue space debris.
those meteorites, they’re eating the dogs, the meteorites that come in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating…they’re eating the pets of the people that live here!
musk and d.o.g.e. need to identify 4 trillion dollars to divert from bloated government programs to increase NASA funding to hire competent engineers to build the dome. trump needs to create a new cabinet position and assign the cast of the movie Armageddon to it, to oversee the project.
the only draw back i can see is that the dome will prevent anymore billionaires from going to space, forcing the rest of us to tolerate them here on Terra Firma.