The real jackpot here is how this large chunk happened to impact a home belonging to an astute and prepared individual:
He then immediately preserved and documented the entire scene using disposable gloves and aluminum foil to place the meteorite fragments in glass jars.
I can think of many diverse reactions to a meteor strike, but even NASA is singing the praises of this guy and his quick thinking.
"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."
I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...
Source paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2105
The real jackpot here is how this large chunk happened to impact a home belonging to an astute and prepared individual:
I can think of many diverse reactions to a meteor strike, but even NASA is singing the praises of this guy and his quick thinking."OW! STUPID METEORITE." flings it back into the air in hopes it'll reach space
"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."
I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...
Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now:
* https://dfn.gfo.rocks/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network
* https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...
Scene one of a Steven Spielberg movie.
Color Out of Space (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/)
Evolution (2001) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/)
Both fun movies, in completely different ways!