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[Darren_Garrison]

@dtilque

There was a meteorite fall captured on video last year. On Prince Edward Island; hit someone’s walkway:

Here is a thread about that one.

Shallow Impact (the real movie of an asteroid strike)

(This was originally going to be a reply in the moon crater thread in FQ, but it started to look like a new thread…) A small meteorite fell in Canada in July of last year. The writeup for it was released yesterday and it is making the news because the impact was caught on video on a Ring camera. The actual impact point is blocked from view, but you see dust, and hear it. [Charlottetown Meteorite - First time the sound of a meteorite hitting the earth recorded] You can see the fall…