Thanks for the video find. I once seen a falling star in the day time. It was a fire ball going across the blue sky and quickly burning out. It was cool to see though. I wonder what this meteor would have looked like in the day time.
I know I'm a sissy girl sometimes, but I just watched this movie like 4 days ago, so when I saw the meteor/asteroid/whatever, this was all I could think about:
When I phoned my girlfriend and got no answer, I thought it had already killed her
Underrated movie due to it coming out right around Armageddon. I remember it getting not great reviews, but being a more entertaining movie IMO. Not sure about the science behind it, but just the idea it proposes.
My brother mention that they are tracking a large meteor, that there's a 1/37 chance it's going to hit Earth in like 40+ years. It's supost to be bigger than the one they assumed wiped out the dinosaurs. I've been playing that idea in my head way too much lately.
lol that was hilarious! How have I never seen that?
That dashboard youtube atb posted was very sweet. I still haven't managed to see the one from the edmonton balcony (posted earlier from spaceweather.com).
Pretty sure that's not part of the meteor in queston. My understanding is that significant oxidation on the surface only happens if a meteorite is exposed to atmosphere for some time lying on the ground. I could be wrong, I am only an amateur enthusiast, but the pitting on surface also makes me wonder as the outside would normally be relatively smooth having been molten only moments before impact.
Bassikounou, ordinary chondrite (H5), S2, W0
Bassikounou, Hodh Ech Chargui, Mauretania. Fell October 16, 2006, 04:00hrs.
TKW: ~ 37kg, individual 308.00gm. (Classification submitted by B. Hofmann, NMBE, publication pending)
Organic and irregular specimen with a number of gorge shaped regmaglypts. This particular meteorite was collected the morning after the fall and shows no signs of terrestrial oxidation. The velvet textured fusion crust is dull black and embeds a number of blank spots where melted iron concretions formed small bumps protruding through the fusion crust.
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They were saying on the news that the rock was between 1.5 and 2m in diameter, and fragmented and burned up before impacting.. so no big crater, but there's probably tons of small pieces to be found. They mentioned where it came down too but I missed that part, something like around Lloydminster.
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They were saying on the news that the rock was between 1.5 and 2m in diameter, and fragmented and burned up before impacting.. so no big crater, but there's probably tons of small pieces to be found. They mentioned where it came down too but I missed that part, something like around Lloydminster.
I heard at one point that is was around Provost or Bodo, but that was unofficial at the time. Do either of those names sound familiar? They're a ways south of Lloyd near the Sask border.
When I phoned my girlfriend and got no answer, I thought it had already killed her 
