Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

xnx•about 2 hours ago

Source paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2105

ButlerianJihad•about 3 hours ago

The real jackpot here is how this large chunk happened to impact a home belonging to an astute and prepared individual:

  He then immediately preserved and documented the entire scene using disposable gloves and aluminum foil to place the meteorite fragments in glass jars.

I can think of many diverse reactions to a meteor strike, but even NASA is singing the praises of this guy and his quick thinking.

alex1138•about 2 hours ago

"OW! STUPID METEORITE." flings it back into the air in hopes it'll reach space

alex1138•10 minutes ago

Hacker News, folks. Make a dumb joke? Get a downvote

Isn't it awesome to have the 500 karma requisite in having downvote powers?

fractallyte•about 1 hour ago

"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."

I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...

defrost•about 1 hour ago

Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now:

* https://dfn.gfo.rocks/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network

* https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...

anovikov•25 minutes ago

This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.

andrewstuart•about 2 hours ago

Scene one of a Steven Spielberg movie.

fractallyte•about 1 hour ago

Color Out of Space (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/)