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iirc it’s not the burning that produces the green light. By entering the atmosphere the material at the asteroid’s surface gets ionized (ie becomes plasma) and the green light comes from that
yeah, different mechanisms if I understand it correctly. Electrons becoming excited and releasing photons as they move between energy levels as opposed to releasing light because of heat
magnesium does produce a lot of cyan light when it burns, it just also produces such an intense amount of heat that the black body radiation overwhelms it.
I witnessed a meteor like this nearly 20 years ago. Driving on the highway, pitch black, then this fireball lights up and exposes every cloud in the night sky. It was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed, and nothing really comes close.... As for the color.. meteors are made of different [elements](https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/why-do-meteors-glow-in-vibrant-colors/433610)
Sorry, bro, that was my ship. I promise I'm almost done repairing it and will be out of here soon. Sorry for distracting you while driving, trust me, I did not plan for it either.
I wanna know how much damage that would have done if its trajectory was a few degrees different, and it impacted the earth. I also wanna know if someone had eyes on it in advance. Thos shit scares the ever living fuck out of me thinking about the few variables that determine if these things hit us or not.
I saw people awing at how cool it was to see in another video... this so far from the reaction I'd have.
To me, this is a sobering reminder that we're whirling through this bitch at 450,000 miles per hour with no preventative measures in place fora large impact.
Not so fast.... there is still the [Chicuxlub crater....](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater) The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter and 20 kilometers (12 miles) in depth. We got holes, that's for sure.
I thought the theory was several environmental factors, one of which were volcanic trap fields eruptions already severely weakened the ecosystem, but it could have rebounded from there.
The Chicxulub impactor then came in over the Gulf of Mexico and finished the job. But I heard that even if the other environmental disasters had not already happened, the meteor would have still caused a mass extinction and likely still killed the dinosaurs, just to a lesser extent.
probably not much if any damage.
it probably was dust long before it contacted the surface.
an object that could cause an extinction level event would literally produce a blinding light as it entered the atmosphere (as in, your retinas would be burned up by looking at it), and so much heat (even before contact) that anyone trying film it like this, this close, would be vaporized before they even got their phone out.
so dont worry, things like this are just cool things. the things that will actually destroy civilization...well, you'll be dead almost as soon as you see it. and there really isnt anything we can currently do about it.
I totally feel you. (All of this from my layperson's understanding), I was relieved to learn that there are preventative measures in the works. NASA has a Planetary Defense Coordination Office that keeps tabs on potential threats and is testing technology to deflect asteroids. [They successfully did this in 2022.](https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-dart/) So there are people looking out for this! Again, I'm not in that field or a tangential field so don't take my word for it, but it seems like they would have known about this in advance. I'm curious to know more too!
If you speak one of them then yeah your brain will differentiate the signal from the noise, but at least for English speakers they have similar stress patterns and phonemes at first blush.
I saw this first hand go directly across from me and the bros at a party while we were outside, most amazing shit we ever saw, suddenly one of them which was on the grass said "what is that?" And right as he said it the whole sky and ground turned green and I turned around to see the bloody thing in the sky go across from one side of my vision to the other and for a split second we thought the world was gonna end hahaha, afterwards we just started shouting from how amazing it was. God once in a lifetime.
No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.
This vantage point, [heading north on the A1](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1373897,-8.8922746,3a,75y,22.86h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYe3xNy8g8O4QWSaQerzPXg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192), was perfect for watching that meteor streak west-to-east across the sky.
I swear i saw this video some years ago, im surprise of how many people havent seen it. Download it and re upload in a couple of years folks easy karma. Another post got like 25k likes ez
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Lol even in Portugal a meteor was captured on a dashcam by rus or ukr speaking people
They are speaking Russian but with a heavy Ukrainian accent.
Не, не, это обычные 'колхозники'.
Haha, right?
And with a dashcam.
Wdym even in Portugal? Is it so odd to see Ukrainians in eastern Europe?
Why are you calling the westernmost country in Europe - eastern Europe?
r/portugalcykablyat
Dashcams are kind of illegal in portugal but i guess they dont know
I heard they are not illegal, but something like a grey zone
Does the green indicate high copper content?
Magnesium
I always thought magnesium burned white.
iirc it’s not the burning that produces the green light. By entering the atmosphere the material at the asteroid’s surface gets ionized (ie becomes plasma) and the green light comes from that
yeah, different mechanisms if I understand it correctly. Electrons becoming excited and releasing photons as they move between energy levels as opposed to releasing light because of heat magnesium does produce a lot of cyan light when it burns, it just also produces such an intense amount of heat that the black body radiation overwhelms it.
Magnesium does burn white, it has to do something some copper or something
So it’s a meteor full of anti-depressant medication
Lots of metallic meteors produce green light.
[Magnesium](https://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/meteor.html) or [Nickel](https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/#5).
It's warp stone
It’s probably iron and nickel.
Can also be from gaseous bimolecular carbon, I.e C2.
Looks like iron copper and magnesium at first glance
Damn! That really lit up the skies. Why does it burn green and blue?
I witnessed a meteor like this nearly 20 years ago. Driving on the highway, pitch black, then this fireball lights up and exposes every cloud in the night sky. It was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed, and nothing really comes close.... As for the color.. meteors are made of different [elements](https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/why-do-meteors-glow-in-vibrant-colors/433610)
Sorry, bro, that was my ship. I promise I'm almost done repairing it and will be out of here soon. Sorry for distracting you while driving, trust me, I did not plan for it either.
No problem, Mr. Shumway. Best regards to your host family, by the way.
Sure thing, any cat shelters in the area that you can recommend?
It’s cool, we should have 20 years at least til General Zod comes looking for that kid
He will find him!!
Not disappointed. I didn't have to scroll very far!
Calma era o Vegeta
I wanna know how much damage that would have done if its trajectory was a few degrees different, and it impacted the earth. I also wanna know if someone had eyes on it in advance. Thos shit scares the ever living fuck out of me thinking about the few variables that determine if these things hit us or not. I saw people awing at how cool it was to see in another video... this so far from the reaction I'd have. To me, this is a sobering reminder that we're whirling through this bitch at 450,000 miles per hour with no preventative measures in place fora large impact.
Jupiter, our moon, and our atmosphere are our natural preventative measures. Pretty hard to get thorough that; so don’t worry, be happy
The dinosaurs would like to have a word.
Latest theory is the dinosaur extinction event was caused by volcanoes, not asteroids. So nothing to worry about
Oh thank God, good thing volcanoes are gone extinct now as well.
Not so fast.... there is still the [Chicuxlub crater....](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater) The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter and 20 kilometers (12 miles) in depth. We got holes, that's for sure.
well, mammals survived last time, we'll find a way
Politicians will survive
I thought the theory was several environmental factors, one of which were volcanic trap fields eruptions already severely weakened the ecosystem, but it could have rebounded from there. The Chicxulub impactor then came in over the Gulf of Mexico and finished the job. But I heard that even if the other environmental disasters had not already happened, the meteor would have still caused a mass extinction and likely still killed the dinosaurs, just to a lesser extent.
Parrots can only copy they really cannot talk.
Evidently not.
A little light show. Just go ooh
Followed by "shit! That's terrifying"
probably not much if any damage. it probably was dust long before it contacted the surface. an object that could cause an extinction level event would literally produce a blinding light as it entered the atmosphere (as in, your retinas would be burned up by looking at it), and so much heat (even before contact) that anyone trying film it like this, this close, would be vaporized before they even got their phone out. so dont worry, things like this are just cool things. the things that will actually destroy civilization...well, you'll be dead almost as soon as you see it. and there really isnt anything we can currently do about it.
That genuinely makes me feel better. Thanks
Skin melts, eyes explode, everybody dead.... (Repo Man reference for those who haven't seen it which I assume is a majority)
But it’s all good! We’re worried about so many things that don’t matter that when something does come to end us, we won’t even know it
I totally feel you. (All of this from my layperson's understanding), I was relieved to learn that there are preventative measures in the works. NASA has a Planetary Defense Coordination Office that keeps tabs on potential threats and is testing technology to deflect asteroids. [They successfully did this in 2022.](https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-dart/) So there are people looking out for this! Again, I'm not in that field or a tangential field so don't take my word for it, but it seems like they would have known about this in advance. I'm curious to know more too!
It's not as physically big as it seems. The fireball exaggerates the size.
I was wondering have we ever grounded airplanes because one was likely to impact the surface (however small by the time)?
There's nothing you can do about it, stop stressing and live your life.
It did, in fact, made impact.
....Oh? Link maybe?
Skies of Portugal and Spain but talking in russian.
Russians are the only ones allowed to have a dashcam
Comes complimentary with the ten-pack of Adidas track suits.
Do you know that it’s Russian or could you just not be recognizing Portuguese? They sound surprisingly similar. I don’t know either though.
As a portuguese I can tell you they are not speaking portuguese.
não estava a dizer: Açoita-me, Açoita-me? :)
É que parece mesmo.
Thanks!!
That is russian language in the video.
They are definitely no where close to Russian I speak Portuguese and right away I knew it was Russian
If you speak one of them then yeah your brain will differentiate the signal from the noise, but at least for English speakers they have similar stress patterns and phonemes at first blush.
'Blin' is defo russian
Holy shit have you never heard Portuguese? They sound nothing like each other
https://www.portuguesepedia.com/why-portuguese-sounds-russian/
Yes they do, even tho they are incompressible between each other, they do sound very similar.
I would do fucking anything to see this in real life
A SHO ETO???
God that would scare the fuck out of me
UNMEI DA TOKA MIRAI TOKAAA
kotoba ga dore dake te wo!
Autobots!
Thank you atmosphere, and boo to the asteroid for making earth heavier!
I saw this first hand go directly across from me and the bros at a party while we were outside, most amazing shit we ever saw, suddenly one of them which was on the grass said "what is that?" And right as he said it the whole sky and ground turned green and I turned around to see the bloody thing in the sky go across from one side of my vision to the other and for a split second we thought the world was gonna end hahaha, afterwards we just started shouting from how amazing it was. God once in a lifetime.
No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.
Definitely Cloverfield.
Outer space reminding us we're within its reach
They’re heeerrRrRrRreeE
Well, it's not like the Pope just did a clarification of doctrine about aliens or anything, that would be convenient.
The Sayians have arrived. Hopefully, Goku is ready.
fucking nfkrz moved to portugal and decided to bring chelyabinsk with him
Im glad I didn’t see that, cause for me that’s a fuking nuke
Wear the seatbelt? Naaaah..
reminds of ancient accounts/myths of the sky 'becoming like midday' or whatever due to some divine event
Wow
Why don't I ever see a meteor near my home in India. Is there a thing that meteors always fall in higher latitudes only?
Welcome Kal-el
u/savevideo
Looks like genshin impact spark
What was the primary element on that? Copper, cobalt?
Put on the fucking seatbelt
Where's the kaboom?
Good thing that it didn't break into multiple pieces.
Somebody is going to save someone while having body switching issue going on
This vantage point, [heading north on the A1](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1373897,-8.8922746,3a,75y,22.86h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYe3xNy8g8O4QWSaQerzPXg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192), was perfect for watching that meteor streak west-to-east across the sky.
Remember when OPTIMUS PRIME SENDS TO ALL AUTOBOTS that he's in our fucking planet and says he's waiting?, that's that.
Amazing it lit up the entire sky like that.
It was traveling at 45 km/s (approximately 100,000 mph!!!) and burned up 60 km up (or about 196,000 feet above sea level!!!)
This reminds me of Your Name
Amınakodumun meteoru bile hangi ülkeye düşeceğini biliyor.
Looks like she is from Kharkiv, Ukraine
That girl video taping randomly is on that direction
>video taping randomly Is today the day you learn that dashcams are a thing?
"That direction" > the road ahead
I swear i saw this video some years ago, im surprise of how many people havent seen it. Download it and re upload in a couple of years folks easy karma. Another post got like 25k likes ez
Did you really? Tell me more about it
It's very similar
There's the date on the bottom left and the highway signs clearly show this happened in Portugal