Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/21/comet-explodes-over-europe-in-astonishing-explosion-video.html
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With all this camera footage, it should be possible to get a trajectory for the object and then trace its orbit backwards to see where it came from. (Don’t be Mars, don’t be Mars…)
And it will be terrific if they can recover some nice fresh meteoritic material - if any of it survived in recognisable form to reach the surface.
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Forget Mars. My money’s on Klendathu.
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Has anyone checked on the whereabouts of Marco Inaros?
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An astonishing explosion? Are there humdrum explosions? Mediocre explosions?
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*Adam Selene has entered the chat
Points to anyone who gets the reference 
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Fortunately, new observatories and other ground- and space-based technology will hopefully help astronomers spot the largest space boulders before a catastrophic big boom occurs.
“Fortunately” and “hopefully” are doing a lot of work in there!
I want to encourage anyone interested in actively mapping our galactic neighborhood, in search of the alarmingly high percentage of as-yet-undiscovered potentially catastrophic Near Earth Objects sneaking closer to us with every passing day–to look into the https://b612foundation.org/, dedicated to identifying threats early enough to give us time to deflect or otherwise deal with them.
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Where did those MCRN ships go?
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I really wanted the introduction of this post to say, “Comet explodes in astonishing explosion that exploded!”
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If they didn’t get the latest covid shot, we’ll be fine.
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Oh, c’mon – even though it’s on X, this is the footage you need to see. Shot of a lifetime.
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A bright flash is a bad sign for anything surviving, since it comes from material that isn’t. Meteors from comets are generally too icy to reach the ground. The ones that do are from asteroids instead, or occasionally bits blown off of other rocky worlds like Mars.
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guess Im nitpicking here, but Im pretty sure NEOs are not in the galactic neighborhood, but inside the inner solar system, hence the name.
thats kinda optimistic;
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I haven’t seen any confirmation it was a cometary fragment - has any source identified its origin yet?
Stony meteors often disintegrate at altitude due to aerodynamic pressure differences between the leading edge and the back of the object and they can produce quite large amounts of meteorites. Downside - trying to find stony meteorites in and amongst regular stones is - tricky.
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