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by hodgesrmon 1/25/25, 2:45 PMwith 54 comments

by xattton 1/25/25, 4:51 PM

The guy who owns the house is a theologian scholar (1). Message from above, perhaps?

Original CBC article is here (2).

by whamlastxmason 1/25/25, 3:41 PM

by oidaron 1/25/25, 3:22 PM

I figured there would be a hand full of instances of people dying from meteorites falls, but they have only ever bruised a person: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-person-ever-h...

by wileydragonflyon 1/25/25, 3:25 PM

All I ever caught on my cameras was someone coked out of their mind crashing into my backyard and carefully making an escape at 3am.

by j-boson 1/25/25, 5:52 PM

Why is CNN DRM locking a video that doesn't belong to them?

by fortran77on 1/25/25, 3:23 PM

Well, actually it caught a meteor striking, leaving behind a meteorite.

by pizzafeelsrighton 1/25/25, 3:16 PM

That would definitely do damage to somebody's skull.

Airspeed, drag, and terminal velocity and all that I would assume it's going subsonic and appears to be quite brittle.

The angle also appears to be consistent with what I've seen other impacts produce in the 40 degrees.

The lack of sonic boom and camera catching it I am curious if this happens on the daily with nominal observation.

by lifeisstillgoodon 1/25/25, 4:38 PM

This has made my day - just a tiny reminder we live on a ball Of rock plummeting through space - awesome !

by andrewfromxon 1/25/25, 2:59 PM

that's insane! What is the speed its going?

by winkon 1/25/25, 4:42 PM

I would have thought the stone tile would have shattered.

by HelloUsernameon 1/25/25, 6:21 PM

Several times posted this week:

by I_dream_of_Gen1on 1/25/25, 5:07 PM

like, really old news...

Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home's front walkway