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There's recent footage on Reddit ("rocks falling from the cliff" + /nextfu**glevel/ ) showing the enormous energies of a rock slide in Himachal Pradesh which was just brutal (people died, although footage does not depict that directly).

It was impossible not to think of it when seeing the above; you really wouldn't want to be anywhere near the impact site of a larger meteor if you could help it.

Did it get picked up on any seismometers?
All those "5 meteorites to pass by Earth this month" title makers never hit earth.

And those that hit earth don't seem to make any news before they strike.

> All those "5 meteorites to pass by Earth this month" title makers never hit earth.

100% of all meteorites hit the Earth, by definition.

I think you mean “meteor”.

By that definition, would a meteor that vaporizes in our atmosphere before impact just be considered a meteor?
Asteroid, meteor, meteorite, aerolite

I'd like to know if someone else knows other variations

Asteroid: rock in space

Meteor: asteroid in atmosphere (falling generally)

Meteorite: meteor which touched ground

Aerolite: rock in atmosphere (be it flying, falling, levitating or otherwise)

Comet: Icyspace rock, comma and ejecta are not strictly necessary

Meteoroid: rock in space smaller than asteroid.
The ones that we can see before they hit are very big. The ones that do hit are too small to be seen beforehand. There are a lot more of the smaller ones than the bigger ones.
It's roughly a logarithmic progression in size an frequency. So: 10x larger -> 10x rarer.

Tunguska-size impacts are roughly 1x century.

Distributions are pretty much random. God may or may not play dice with the Universe, but the Univers plays dice with Earth.

Those that make a title would make quite some damage if they did hit earth. Those that don't make a title may still be spectacular, but they're too small to be detected.
Too bad there wasn’t a bunch of people driving with car cameras like in Russia, which turned out to be very useful during their meteorite event.

This was also at 1am at night in a more rural area.

Maybe more video will come out as this news spreads and people check security cameras.

That's because no one can afford to drive in Oslo any more. Every road is a toll road and there are no parking spaces any more.
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That’s quite an exaggeration, though I understand how it can seem that way to some. Anyhow, it’s the middle of summer vacation, so lots if people are out of town. But more to the point, the meteor was visible over an area vastly bigger than Oslo. Even more to the point, dashcams aren’t that common in Norway, I think (though I have no data). In Russia, they are said to be very common as a defence from corrupt police and wrong claims of other drivers in case of accidents.
the first twitter video link in a comment above looks like dashcam footage?
Those car cams have done some absolutely historic data collection. Did you ever see the dashcam video of a driver panicking and hurriedly slamming their car into reverse when shells started falling in an eastern Ukrainian city? Still blows my mind to think of what we can all see now as if we're right there.
About 2 years ago there was a meteor around this size or maybe a little smaller that passed over Auckland, NZ.

I was sitting in my spa pool looking up at the stars around midnight and it passed over head. Took about 30 seconds and went from one side of the sky to the other an left a huge streak of fire.

There were a couple of posts on social media like “Did anyone see that giant fireball?” but no video footage or news about the event otherwise.

I always feel like nobody believes me when I tell them this.

Had a similar experience around 8 years ago over southern Germany.
I saw one a couple of months ago from Pakuranga! No sound, so it must've been far away, but at first I thought it must be a firework (bright white though, ending in a flash not an explosion). Could've been space junk not a meteor.
I had an identical experience while on the coast of the Mid-Atlantic US several years ago: a giant fireball flew over me for around half a minute, give or take. I was indoors looking at the sea at night through a large window. There was no sound I could hear from inside the room. I was so mesmerized by the meteor that it didn't occur to me to take my eyes off from it, you know, to grab my phone and record the whole thing. It all looked like a special effect in a big-budget movie, but in real life.

Now, I'm almost certain that mythological figures like Helios, who rides a "chariot of fire" in the sky, must be interpretations of similar meteor sightings in antiquity: https://www.google.com/search?q=helios+chariot+of+fire&tbm=i... -- a "chariot of fire" is pretty apt description, IMHO.

"Like Helios" maybe, but I think in Helios's case the 'chariot of fire' is carrying the Sun across the day's sky. As I recall from the myth, at night he sails (on water) from West to East to prepare for the next day. The story doesn't fit well with a fast-moving night-time meteor(ite).
You're right. Nonetheless, I do feel "chariot of fire" is an apt description that captures the magic of what I saw :-)
If the fireball took half a minute (or seemed to) it was probably reentering spacecraft debris, like an upper stage. These are slower than meteors and tend to be going nearly horizontally, which extends their lifetime.
That makes a lot of sense. Yes, it could have been spacecraft debris.
Did you hear anything?
I saw something similar decades ago. I believe you.
I was lucky enough to witness it too.

I was driving down my street and I saw the world in front of me light up from a fireball in the sky accompanied by a loud roar. I had no reference as to what this was – a missile? A plane going down? Surely it was travelling too fast for those though.

As it passed over to the East I waited with tensed shoulders for what was to come next, I assumed a large impact or explosion, but thankfully exhaled after a few seconds and simply silence was what came next.

Remarkable experience!

I saw the flash, and around three minutes later, heard the sound. It was impressive!

If I'm right about the time between the light and the sound, it was around ~60km/37mi away, but still clearly audible!

I missed out on the flash but the pressure wave rattled my front door like someone was trying to get in (and the dog was none too pleased about that).
I was wondering what the hell that was last night
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Anyone can report fireball sightings at the American Meteor Society website:

https://www.amsmeteors.org/

Looks like this could be the event:

https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/...

Finding the debris in that forest might result in a nice Sword I rekon.