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Video: Skydiver almost gets hit by meteorite

According to geologist Hans Amundsen—of the Natural History Museum in Oslo—you’re looking at the first ever film of a meteorite falling through its dark flight stage. The lucky guy who filmed it was skydiver Anders Helstrup, who survived the encounter unscathed. The chances of this happening, according to the scientist, are “much less likely than…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Apr 3

Watch a huge asteroid crash into the Moon

Of course, rocks and asteroids crash into the moon all the time (there’s a reason it’s so cratered.) But there’s something about seeing it in action — and at this size — that’s pretty amazing. So how big was the crash? So big that researchers say the flash it created was very, very briefly was…

io9 Ria Misra Feb 24

A Rocket, a Meteor and the Milky Way, All in One Overwhelming Image

Pictures of rockets, meteors and the Milky Way are all amazing. But one with all three makes for an overwhelming image indeed. This amazing picture shows the night sky over Doi Inthanon National Park in Thailand. Within it, you can see the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, hovering surreally. But there’s more: just…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Feb 12

The 101 Best Astronomical Events to Watch Out For in 2014

As 2013 draws to a close, we once again cast our thoughts to all things astronomical for the coming year. For the last half decade, I’ve been constructing this list of all things astronomical for the following 365 days, lovingly distilling the events transpiring worldwide down to a 101 “best events of the year.” Here…

io9 David Dickinson – Universe Today Dec 26

Russians just found a giant space boulder from the Chelyabinsk meteor

The Russians keep hunting for fragments of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. This space boulder—the largest piece so far—has just been found by divers deep in the Chebarkul Lake, about 930 miles east of Moscow. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 The meteor weighed 1,256 pounds (570 kilograms) before the balance broke. The analysis of the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 16

Watch the fireball that exploded over Ohio last night

Last night, a meteoroid hit Earth’s atmosphere over Ohio, exploding in a fiery flash of light. Space Weather reports that the meteor was traveling at 114,000 mph when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere at 11:33 pm EDT. The explosion was captured by a NASA all-sky camera in Hiram, Ohio, and was reportedly visible from at…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 28

For morning viewing: 3 timelapses of last week’s Perseid meteor shower

Last weekend’s Perseid display may go down as the most spectacular meteor shower of 2013. Did you miss it? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Here to wrest you from the clutches of Monday morning indolence are three arresting timelapses of the shower, each under 90 seconds long. The first comes from photographer P-M Hedén,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 19

Missing The Beautiful Perseid Meteor Shower Was Dumb Of You

Look there were a lot of options. NASA streamed the shower with commentary, local astronomer associations were posting pictures, and there’s always . . . what’s that place? Oh right. Outside. You could have gone and watched. But no. It was a Saturday night and you were busy. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-will-stream-the-perseid-meteor-shower-live-until-3-1093920662 Luckily Kai Gradert has you covered.…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman Aug 18

Incredible Footage Shows a Perseid Meteor Exploding

Personally, I’ve never seen anything like this, and photographer and digital artist Michael K. Chung said he couldn’t believe what he saw when he was processing images he took for a timelapse of the Perseid meteor shower. It appears he captured a meteor explosion and the resulting expansion of a shock wave or debris ring.…

io9 Nancy Atkinson – Universe Today Aug 16

Some 2014 Olympic Gold Medals Will Have a Russian Meteorite In Them

Winning a gold medal is one of the highest achievements in sports, the beautiful round medallion rewards years of hard work and confirms an athlete’s status as the very best. Russia is going to sweeten the deal a bit in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (no, they’re not wrapping chocolate inside), with extra medals that…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 25

Watch Bill Nye Explain How We Could Stop an Asteroid with Laser Bees

Because Bill Nye explains the world better than even experiencing it yourself, here’s our childhood maestro of science explaining how we could possibly stop an asteroid from destroying Earth. Giant bombs, huge rockets and even freaking lasers probably can’t stop it. And even if they could stop it, we might not be able to build…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 23

A Meteor Streaked Across the East Coast of the United States and No One Has a Damn Picture Of It Yet

At around 8 o’clock tonight, a meteor that’s been described as “huuuuge green” and “very bright” and “blueish” and “glowing green” and “pretty big” and “very slow and bright green” was spotted across the east coast of the United States from NYC to DC to Baltimore to West Virginia to Boston and basically any big…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 22

Basically No One in Russia Thought That Meteor Was a Meteor

Last month, a giant meteor exploded over Russia. Ground zero was the Ural city of Chelyabinsk, where 1500 people were injured and thousands of buildings were damaged. About half the city’s million people saw the meteor, but most of them didn’t know it was a meteor at all. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 A recent opinion poll from Moscow’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn Mar 1

What’s the difference between a comet, asteroid, meteor, meteoroid and meteorite?

With all the recent buzz over asteroid AD14, the meteor over Chelyabinsk, the fragments of meteorite recovered in Russia’s Ural mountains, and yesterday’s news that the fireball originated from our solar system’s asteroid belt, one can’t help but wonder: what’s the difference between all these -oids, -ors and -ites? Are they all just different words…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 27

Scientists Figured Out Where That Russian Meteor Came From

On February 15th, a meteor shook Russia as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere above the Urals. Now, scientists believe they know where in the universe it came from. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 Using as much data they could lay their hands on—from extensive dash-cam coverage, to CCTV footage, to a lucky observation made by the Meteosat-9 weather satellite—Jorge…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 27

We now know the origin of Russia’s meteor

The Chelyabinsk meteor may have snuck up on us by surprise, but it didn’t take long for a crack team of astronomers from Colombia to figure out where the damned thing came from and the path it took to get here. By sifting through the copious amounts of video footage available, and after performing some…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 26

What the Russian Meteorite’s Shockwave Really Felt Like on the Ground

As we get to know more and more about how powerful the meteorite that exploded over Russia really was, something still gets lost in translation. This video makes it abundantly clear how strong the blast was. The footage is collected from different locations throughout the Chelyabinsk city and shows how it really felt on the…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 21

Watch as Last Week’s Asteroid Decides to Fly by Instead of Destroying Us All

That little, white pixelated bean spinning around above might look more like a bad 80s video game than the near-messenger of quick and devastating apocalypse, but that’s what happens when you’re taking shots 74,000 miles away from your subject. What you’re seeing is, in fact, 2012 DA14 at a resolution of around 13 feet per…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg Feb 20

NASA releases first video of Asteroid DA14’s close encounter with Earth

NASA has released the first video observation of asteroid DA14’s record-setting flyby of Earth. The 45-meter-wide space rock sped past last Friday, coming at one point within 17,200 miles of the planet’s surface. That may seem like a wide berth (especially in light of the unanticipated arrival of the 17-meter-wide Chelyabinsk meteor earlier that same…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 20

Incredible details are emerging about Russia’s Chelyabinsk meteor

It’s been four days since an asteroid tore a hole in the sky over Chelyabinsk, scaring the crap out of the city’s inhabitants and pretty much everyone else around the globe. Details are finally starting to emerge about this jaw-dropping incident, so we’ve prepared a round-up of the preliminary findings. The asteroid made its low…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 19

Video: Skydiver almost gets hit by meteorite

Watch a huge asteroid crash into the Moon

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The 101 Best Astronomical Events to Watch Out For in 2014

Russians just found a giant space boulder from the Chelyabinsk meteor

Watch the fireball that exploded over Ohio last night

For morning viewing: 3 timelapses of last week’s Perseid meteor shower

Missing The Beautiful Perseid Meteor Shower Was Dumb Of You

Incredible Footage Shows a Perseid Meteor Exploding

Some 2014 Olympic Gold Medals Will Have a Russian Meteorite In Them

Watch Bill Nye Explain How We Could Stop an Asteroid with Laser Bees

A Meteor Streaked Across the East Coast of the United States and No One Has a Damn Picture Of It Yet

Basically No One in Russia Thought That Meteor Was a Meteor

What’s the difference between a comet, asteroid, meteor, meteoroid and meteorite?

Scientists Figured Out Where That Russian Meteor Came From

We now know the origin of Russia’s meteor

What the Russian Meteorite’s Shockwave Really Felt Like on the Ground

Watch as Last Week’s Asteroid Decides to Fly by Instead of Destroying Us All

NASA releases first video of Asteroid DA14’s close encounter with Earth

Incredible details are emerging about Russia’s Chelyabinsk meteor

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