Stargazing Meteorite crash recorded on video in Canada

[jtbell]

...near someone's front door on Prince Edward Island.

 

[jedishrfu]

This video is in contrast to the Toyota Tacoma truck advertisement of a fake meteorite strike:

 

[Klystron]

Interesting video until the final sequence when the interviewer asks, "what are the odds?". Odds, or probability, of what event? A meteor landing on Earth from the asteroid belts? This event being recorded by a security camera then recognized as such?

 

[jedishrfu]

Examples

• Woman hit by meteor in 1954
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...rial-bruiser-shocked-alabama-woman-180973646/
  • https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/in-1954-a-woman-was-struck-by-the-sylacauga-meteorite-and-lived
• In 1992 Peekskill NY, a car was hit by a meteor
  • https://meteoritecar.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_meteorite
• Chelyabinsk meteor event that occurred in Russia on February 15, 2013
  • It exploded in an airburst around 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) above the ground near Chelyabinsk, Russia.
  • The energy released was roughly equivalent to a few hundred kilotons of TNT (estimates vary, but most commonly cited is around 400–500 kilotons). For comparison, that’s around 20–30 times more powerful than the atomic bombs detonated during World War II.

What are the odds?

• Some researchers have estimated that the odds of any individual being struck by a meteorite in their lifetime are 1 in 700,000 to 1 in several million.
• NASA has cited numbers in a similar ballpark, often around 1 in 1.6 million for a human lifetime.

Why So Rare?

• Although the Earth is constantly bombarded by tiny bits of space debris, most burn up in the atmosphere as meteors (the “shooting stars” you see).
• The number of meteorites that make it to Earth’s surface and are large enough to cause injury is extremely small.
• Earth’s surface is approximately 70% water, and vast areas are uninhabited, so the chance of a meteorite landing in a populated area—let alone striking a person—is minuscule.

 

[Nugatory]

Some researchers have estimated that the odds of any individual being struck by a meteorite in their lifetime are 1 in 700,000 to 1 in several million.

1 in 700,000 seems way high, as it suggests that about 10,000 of the 7 billion people now on earth will have experienced a meteorite strike at some point in their lives; more than one hundred such events per year worldwide. Or am I misunderstanding the statistic?

 

[Baluncore]

1 in 700,000 seems way high, as it suggests that about 10,000 of the 7 billion people now on earth will have experienced a meteorite strike at some point in their lives;

The estimate does seem a bit too high.

Half of the victims will no longer be living on the Earth, so will be missing from the statistics. The other half of the living victims, will not yet have been victimised. That may be why there appear to be very few victims on Earth today.

 

[russ_watters]

1 in 700,000 seems way high, as it suggests that about 10,000 of the 7 billion people now on earth will have experienced a meteorite strike at some point in their lives; more than one hundred such events per year worldwide. Or am I misunderstanding the statistic?

Agreed. With only one known human hit by a meteorite in the past 70 years, that would suggest odds below 1:8 billion. Current population is 8 billion.

Half of the victims will no longer be living on the Earth, so will be missing from the statistics. The other half of the living victims, will not yet have been victimised. That may be why there appear to be very few victims on Earth today.

"Very few victims"? Assuming that one known victim is now dead (she'd be 104 years old), there would be no living victims.

 

[Nugatory]

The other half of the living victims, will not yet have been victimised

It will take on the order of 100 per year on average just to get enough hits in before the people currently alive but not hit have died before they're hit.

 

[Astronuc]

I can see @davenn booking a trip to PEI.

 

[pinball1970]

I can see @davenn booking a trip to PEI.

It hurt my ears! Should have a volume warning

 

[davenn]

...near someone's front door on Prince Edward Island.

That is so very cool

thankyou for the link

That right there is the definition of a hammerstone. One that hits something manmade. ( building, road etc). That quickly bumps up the sale price substantially and then to add more value, it was video'ed to hit. Even more $$$$.
There's only one hassle, trying to get Canadian meteorites out if Canada is like trying to get the proverbial "blood out of a stone". It is done, but the paperwork etc is not fun, so my 2 fellow Canadian meteorite collectors tell me, after have gone through the process.

Dave