Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
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Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#2The 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.
Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#3Source paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2105
Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#4The 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.
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#5Scene one of a Steven Spielberg movie.
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#6"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...
Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#7Scene 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!
Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#8"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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network
* https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...
Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#9"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...
This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.
Re: Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
#10The 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.
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