Bright meteorite

[rocketman]

Anyone else see the meteorite go by at 12:10 this morning? Lit up my whole backyard!

[Pilgrim]

It seemed like the bedroom lit up but I thought it was a dream or maybe lightning. I think I also heard a low rumble. I guess people saw it all over the state.

[alaskyn66]

Caught the flash on camera ( pointing East)

http://imgur.com/gallery/mF1FWJo

At 12:11:35

[terracore]

Isn't there something that humans can build to detect and track these incoming space rocks?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

terracore,
Perhaps something like our telescopes on Mauna Kea & Haleakala?

ATLAS, which is two telescopes 100 miles apart on the Big Island and Maui, scans the entire sky every two nights for asteroids that could impact Earth. It can spot small asteroids half a day before they arrive at Earth and could point to larger asteroids days before.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/24/world/nas...index.html

[Pilgrim]

Alaskyn - cool! It woke up your pet cat, I'm guessing.

Yeah Terracore, I heard they have those thingys too but they're falling to ruin due to unprotected science.

[randomq]

If the secret corporate military crews had been allowed to repair their space laser war machines, we could have shot this alien attack vessel down. Now dozens of cows will be probed! Why do you think they built the mountain right next to Parker Ranch anyway?

[TomK]

"the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog"

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The meteor was about the size of a softball!

[geochem]

Interesting video - sorry I missed it. Maybe a stupid question: is there any video from the summit cameras? or have they all been shut down for the duration?

[TomK]

geochem - the cameras are operating. You can see the flash of the fireball in the Gemini cameras although no real detail as it's so bright the detectors become saturated:

https://www.gemini.edu/sciops/telescopes...tlong.html

(click on the views for 20190724)

One CFHT camera also caught the fireball over the Gemini dome:

https://www.facebook.com/cfhtelescope/vi...369180656/