South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom, the cause of which was a falling meteorite.

Fireballs Aotearoa, a group interested in meteorites, said a sonic boom was widely reported as the object came in overhead. Although most of its mass burned up in the fireball stage, it was believed a ...

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Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio ...

eologist Chris Herd confirmed that this could be the first documented meteorite fall with sound. On Prince Edward Island in Canada, a camera may have captured the first-ever footage of space ...

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Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The footage is ...

The meteorite likely broke off from an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, Herd said. The rock can be seen briefly in only one frame of the video, indicating its speed, the University of Alberta said.

A Meteorite Strike Was Captured on Video by a Canadian Home's Doorbell Camera NEW YORK (AP) — A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as ...