5 Incredible Meteor Impacts Caught On Camera

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5 Incredible Meteor Impacts Caught On Camera
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All Comments (21)
  • @Cydonia2020
    ‘Meteor’ and ‘comet’ are not interchangeable words.
  • @PeterHonig.
    FYI:
    METEOROID - When traveling through space.
    METEOR - When glowing in our atmosphere.
    METEORITE - When laying on the surface of a planet.
  • @traildoggy
    I was riding with friend late one night and a meteor streaked across the sky and lit everything up as brightly as a lightening strike does, but it lasted 3 or 4 seconds. It started sort of greenish then quickly went blue white and VERY bright all at once. We all agreed that it was the craziest thing we'd ever seen in the sky.
  • Chelyabinsk was INCREDIBLE. I'm surprised you didn't include one of the videos which show the shockwave hitting and how loud the explosion was. It was deafening and absolutely terrifying.
  • @catkeys6911
    The velocity of those things is really something to see. I mean, we've all seen jets going maybe 500 mph +/- slowly crossing the vast sky. Then, when you see a meteor that's much farther away go streaking across the sky like that you can really get an idea of what that kind of speed looks like. It's moving way, way faster than anything else you're ever likely to see in your lifetime. Luckily, it's that speed and our atmosphere that saves Earth from catastrophic damage.
  • When I was young (late 70s, early 80s), I had a paper route. On weekends I had to start it at about 4am. Oddly enough, I saw plenty of meteors, including one that crossed half of the sky. At that age, it scared the life out of me. Since then, I have had night time jobs like delivering pizza, and have seen numerous larger-sized meteors including one that had pieces breaking off, and left a nice trail.
  • @MrFahdoush
    I’ve witnessed the same back in the 90’s in Tunisia .. unfortunately I didn’t have a camera to record it … but until today I still remember the the brightness and even the sound
  • @cloud9847
    the thing that actually scares me a little is that these videos highlight the 'warning' we'll get more than likely if a 'big one' hits us. We won't know it until we see lights in the sky and then it's over.
    These videos are chilling lol.
  • @ffggddss
    4m 27s: "... was about 490 Joules, which equals 9.5 kilotons of TNT."
    – You've dropped a dozen orders of magnitude in that conversion. And 490J for this sort of event is ridiculously tiny.
    That's about the energy released by a 10 kg stone dropped from a height of 5m. Or a bowling ball (16 lb ≈ 7.3 kg) from a height of 7m.

    So let's go with the TNT figure. A yield of 9.5 kT of TNT is more like 490 TJ (terajoules) – that's 490,000,000,000,000 Joules! That sounds more like it.


    Fred
  • 0:23 Chelyabinsk is hardly the second largest city in Russia. It’s #7. St. Petersburg is #2, behind Moscow.
  • I witnessed something breaking up over my hometown in Perth Western Australia about 10 years ago. It didnt light the night up like these did but it was a spectacular sight as it streaked across the sky and broke up into several bits
  • @kristib4002
    Amazing captures!
    I’m really curious about something I’ve been watching over Ontario Canada since I awoke this morn at around 6am. It’s now 11am and I’m still watching whatever it is. So far I’ve seen around a dozen objects with distinctive trails behind them which seem to dissipate, assuming it’s when they hit our atmosphere. No fireballs, I actually can only see the trails travelling through the sky. Is it possibly a meteor shower? Seems the only logical explanation although I didn’t think you could see those during the day!
  • @Acheron666
    We had one explode over my town in Scotland a few years ago.
    I heard a loud bang and thought I’d just heard a bad car crash, as I live not far from a busy dual carriageway.
    It was only when my parents called me and mentioned they heard a really loud bang that I realised it had to have been something else causing it, as they live 5 miles away from me.
    It was on the news the next day that a meteor had broken up over my town.
  • On September 8th, 1994 (My father’s 70th birthday) I and some friends were driving home to Midland, Texas from Dallas. We drove through the night and around 2 am a brilliant fireball meteor streaked across the sky in front of us. It lit up the dark night with vivid blues and reds and yellows and purples and whites. It was breathtakingly beautiful and we were astonished at it’s massive size. I never heard an explosion or felt a shock wave, surprisingly.
  • It was either 1997 or 1998 (think 1998), we had a HUGE meteor storm - as in, the sky in the Chesapeake Bay area was lit up for many hours from the fireballs and smaller meteorites. IIRC, we passed through the tail of a comet. I cannot find footage from that event, though. Does anyone have a link to such footage or is this just something that'll have to remain a vague memory?
  • @flashkirby101
    Absolutely jaw dropping to see this happen. I remember I was driving to work at like 6 in the morning around 2 years ago and it was still pitch black outside being that early. And I just stopped at a stop sign and saw a very bright green ball of flame falling South a few miles in front of me. I couldn't believe my eyes. Then I lost sight of it. I don't know if disintegrated, flew through clouds or what but I can't remember what happened to it.
  • In the late 70s at about 2am I witnessed a large fireball coming almost directly at me at a very low angle it appeared to be about a mile or two away and moving very slowly, it was mostly orange but at the front it was green. We looked for it the next day but could not find a trace but it appeared to have landed at the polo grounds in thermal near palm springs.
  • @megahurts2
    Totally saw the Idaho one in person.

    That was epic.
  • @doudymac
    The scariest thing would be seeing a fireball getting bigger and bigger and not seeing a streak. Coming straight at you... 😯
  • @c.carmody
    I wanted to see more about the spots where each one hit.
    I saw a meteor one night in the distance, but it happened so fast, I was thinking Did I see a star move? or did I see something in our atmosphere? Later I realized it must have been a meteor burning up as it fell through the air.