Meteor entry caught on police dash cam

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[Master-Debater131]

Theres been a few of these lately.  Lots of fireballs getting caught on camera

 

 

 

Starts to make you think we need to do a far better job at tracking NEOs than we do now.

[Top Gun]

The vast majority of meteors that create fireballs like this range from the size of a small pebble to maybe a meter or two across.  Not only would it be impossible to track them, there'd be no reason to anyway.

[Master-Debater131]

True, but there also are sizable NEOs that can cause real damage if they hit us. 

 

Tracking the small stuff doesnt matter, outside of knowing if it poses a risk to satellites, but the larger stuff should be tracked and monitored so we dont get something like Tunguska over the East Coast.

[wacky1980]

it only seems like there's more of them, because there are so many unattended / security / monitoring cameras rolling at any given time. meteor entries of that magnitude brightness, that don't make impact, happen quite frequently. here's an image to add perspective:

 

 

several meteorites hit the earth each year. many more never make it to the ground, and burn up in the atmosphere. for the most part, they all produce these awesome fireballs. i've personally seen two of them like this in my lifetime; one when i was a kid rounding up the dairy cows before sunrise (it was bright enough to make a flash, even though the sun was almost up), and another during the super bowl in like 2005 or '06 that shook windows in the next town over.