“I have the expertise that I’ve looked at hundreds, if not thousands of these types of photos,” Herd said, noting that meteorites are coated with a black shell that forms when space rocks ...

This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory history” in July 2024 when a Ring doorbell camera captured footage of the space rock impacting just outside a door.

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The bit of falling space rock, caught on camera in July, was confirmed to be a meteorite by the University of Alberta, which said that the footage was the first of its kind. The video shows the ...