5 Incredible Meteor Impacts Caught On Camera

5 Incredible Meteor Impacts Caught On Camera

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[PeterHonig.]

FYI:
METEOROID - When traveling through space.
METEOR - When glowing in our atmosphere.
METEORITE - When laying on the surface of a planet.

[Cydonia]

‘Meteor’ and ‘comet’ are not interchangeable words.

[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.

[denverdubois]

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.

[craigsheffield]

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.

[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

[catkeys]

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.

[nordwind]

Chelyabinsk is 7th largest city not second, - second largest is St Petersburg

[jonaskessler]

0:23 Chelyabinsk is hardly the second largest city in Russia. It’s #7. St. Petersburg is #2, behind Moscow.

[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

[cloud]

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.

[Acheron]

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.

[coryBsinger]

Humanity has no idea how fragile our existence is.

[brianpadgett]

4:23 Sorry if someone commented on this before, I don't see it. I know most people don't care about joules or kilotons, but if you're going to quote them, maybe make sure they're accurate. The explosive force of TNT was around 9.5 kilotons, which is nearly 40 trillion (US) joules, not 490 joules. You're off by 9 orders of magnitude.

[flashkirby]

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.

[kellycoleman]

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.

[joekeating]

Chelyabinsk is not the second largest city in Russia...or the third largest....or the eighth largest...

[doudymac]

The scariest thing would be seeing a fireball getting bigger and bigger and not seeing a streak. Coming straight at you... 😯

[elwoodroadsmusic]

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

[jonathanday]

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?