Have you ever considered the odds of a fireball crashing through your roof and onto your pillow while you were sleeping?

Peter Brown has.

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Brown is Canada Research Chair at Ontario香蕉视频直播檚 Western University and has been a researcher in this field for 30 years. He said an opportunity like the one in Golden only presents itself so often.

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Despite the long odds, it香蕉视频直播檚 not the first time this has happened in 2021, with Brown citing a similar incident in Indonesia this past January where a meteor also came through a roof and hit a bed.

Meteorites offer an important look into the unknown of space, as they香蕉视频直播檙e the only material available on earth that comes from, well, not earth. Researchers are hoping that Golden area residents can help them track the route taken by this fireball. Anyone with dashcam footage or video of the fireball are encouraged to reach out.

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Brown says that if researchers are able to reconstruct an orbit pre-impact from the object, it can offer a clue as to where in the asteroid belt the rock came from. Detailed analysis on the ground can let them know the spatial context of the object, but not about it香蕉视频直播檚 orbit.

Brown says that while there香蕉视频直播檚 tens of thousands of meteorites, there are only orbits on a few dozen.

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Brown says Golden residents, particularly those in the north end of town, should keep their eyes peeled for similar meteorites, as there香蕉视频直播檚 a good chance further debris may be scattered.

Alan Hildebrand, a planetary scientist in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary and his collaborators had done a preliminary fireball trajectory solution, and had predicted the location of its fall. They were on the ground in Golden this weekend searching for more, said Hamilton.

While the search continues around Golden, Hamilton says she香蕉视频直播檚 had enough of the excitement.

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Hamilton has since loaned the rock to Western, saying that they personally came to pick it up and that they will be returning it on Nov. 30, after which she香蕉视频直播檚 not quite sure yet what she will do.

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