I once found a meteorite in a stream bed when I was a kid. I suspected it might be a meteorite and living a few blocks from Bradley college, I decided to bring it in and have them give it a look see, and they confirmed my suspicions. About a year later I was cleaning up one of my neighbor's yards for a few dollars, when I found another piece that looked almost exactly like it. I brought it home and put it against my other meteorite and my mind was blown as I saw that the 2 pieces fit together almost exactly. A few pieces were missing, but it was obvious that at one time they were together.
a super easy way to do it is just to fix magnets to the outlet of your gutter. It will accumulate micrometeorites (and industrial iron particlulates which are very common in cities) automatically.
The black surface (ablation crust) and the dimples (regmaglypts) are from melting while hurtling through the atmosphere at extreme speed. That’s an awesome find! I hope they have a written record of when and where it was found.
I often discuss astronomy with one of my lecturers. He's an avid amateur astronomer, and once bought a piece of a mars meteorite found in Morocco. It's only the size of a pebble, but it's worth 800 dollars. I've had the opportunity to hold it in my hands, and it felt so weird, holding a piece of a world millions of kilometers away that we haven't yet seen with our own eyes. You could see with which side it entered the atmosphere and you could see the slight hint of red inside as well. Really interesting and special!
that seems very very cheap. Only 227 of 73,000 classified meteorites are thought to be from mars. I have held soil samples collected during the 1969 moon landings though!
if you wanna find actual meteorites then glaciers and deserts are your best bet. Look for dark objects. Go to a desert, find a large area of erosional desert pavement and you are relatively likely to find one. Happy hunting.
Actually it's even more mind blowing. Most of our matter was created in collisions of neutron stars! Check out PBS Space Time: th-cam.com/video/MmgMboWunkI/w-d-xo.html
In the 1980's when we passed through Hallies(sp) Comet field, i sat out a large bole of water and the next morning ran a magnet through it and was able to pick up the pieces. Very cool!
it's worth noting that in urban environment you are likely to also pick up a significant ammount of industial iron particulates. I hope you got the chance to analyse your particles as having a suggested source would make a really interesting paper.
@@laellions I do this from time to time when we have other events and I get zip. I will say if I did not b4 that the only way I bot the pieces was using aagnet.
@@EToddRoss Sorry to hear about your strokes :(. That is fascinating though! If you get the chance to analyse particles, even under light microscope, it is definitely worth doing! You might even be able to get a research grant, as you can actually provide a specific body of origin for the micrometeorites! Pinpointing the exact bodies MMs originated from is basically impossible under normal circumstances. Best we can do usually is suggest the rough type of meteorite. Even that is problematic as MM composition often only reflects a single grain from the parent, due to their size. This could be a really cool, and potentially significant paper! Esp. Given that comet debris makes up only about 10% of MMs, and most of them are sub 50um.
@@EToddRoss if you ever do analyse those particles, I would love to take a look. I've just finished a paper on micrometeorites discovered in 20ka british post glacial sediment, so I would love there to be more data available. I could link my throw-away email address, if you are interested, even in just talking about MMs. 😊
I can save you the trouble. Just scoop up some dirt from the backyard and sell the individual grains as micrometeorites. Gullibility is so high right now you'll make a killing. You might even be able to sell regular rocks as small meteorites.
I know. A lecturer I often talk to has a Mars meteorite, bought off of ebay though. It's about the size of a small pebble, but it cost 800 dollar. Spacerocks are crazy expensive, more even if they're from important places (Mars, major asteroids, moon etc.)
I have a nice meteor here on my desk right now.. also when I was a lad in the late 50's we used to use the magnet out of phones to collect the iron in the soil in colorado because a teacher told us they might be small meteors.. that was the 2nd grade.. I do not know what happened to my collection from back then.. But wish I still had it today.. This was a good one guys.. I am gonna go collect iron like I did then as soon as spring arrives and the mud turns back to dirt.. Carry on..
@@googleeatsdicks well no ... just a little hot still.. actually it is very cool.. the whole story of finding it is strange to.. But that is for another place..
@@googleeatsdicks oh you party pooper! But you are right.. I think that is what he was getting at when he said that it was bright.. Well it maybe bright but it is a proven fact that I am no long as such.. and that I keep rocks on my desk.. Well now the world knows.. I am a not so brite rock collector..
@@googleeatsdicks Well I think so!.. in my limited capacity as an old fart.. But I have collected rock since I was a sprout.. It has paid off a few times for sure.. But the joy of doing it is tremendous if you are in the arizona or nevada area I still have some old hand made maps I would be willing to share with you.. I can no longer get down there anymore.. the gold and silver deposits I can not send because they are owned by individuals now and I have made agreement's But other rocks are to be had some very pretty and some semi precious..
When I was a kid, my dad gave me a meteorite that he had found at work. I marveled over the fact that this rock had been to places I'd never be, out in the vastness of space. Then a few days later he told me he thought he was mistaken and it was debris from welding. I don't have it anymore so I can' say for sure, but I do remember it having the melted exterior of a meteorite (memory can be faulty though).
As a kid i used to pick up meteorites all over the shale pit near our house and would sell them for like 5 bucks. Turns out they were were iron slag waste from when a train car crashed near us like 60 years ago. Little round lumps the size of marbles. Good thing they wernt actually worth anything considering i probably found a few hundred of them.
I knew a girl who found a meteorite the size of a softball, In her front yard. She told me she found it out there one day, never recognized the rock itself, but felt as if it just dropped outta the sky into her yard. It was indeed a space rock. It almost looked like a chunk of road or asphalt, but it didn't smell like tar. It smelled like Sulphur and burning metal. It had pits and holes on one side and like a bumpy melted surface on the other. The spot where it was picked up had some little pieces of itself scattered a couple inches around, and the grass looked like it had been chewed on or somebody maybe stamped into the same spot a dozen times. She's had that rock for like 4 years now, displaying it on a shelf and telling the story.
The urban micrometeorite guys name is Jon Larsen. He recently published a coffeetable book under the same Project Stardust name, full of beautiful microphotographs, as well as a guide on collection.
What's the largest tree you've found in one? I once had to take out one that was six feet tall and had grown roots down a drainpipe when cleaning up my gradfather's shed.
@@garethdean6382 well... cant say i found a tree in one, not six feet anyways. Did a church that had about a dozen or so saplings from 1-3 feet. None in the downspout.
I use 4 neodymium magnets attached to a steel edging stake screwed to end of a long stick. I look in large parking lots close to the curbs, driveways, downspouts..... I've been looking a good year and have probably found around 30 plus a small meteorite. I do have a inexpensive digital screen microscope which helps, but once you know what your looking for you can see them stuck on your magnet. It's pretty cool when you find them. Got my neodymium magnets on Ebay. Happy hunting.
If you live near the coast then you can use the method that McGill university scientists did in the 60s, 70s and 80s in a research project in Barbados. They set up sheets covered in petroleum jelly to capture the prevailing wind. Since there was nothing but ocean for thousands of km, a significant proportion of the dust that stuck on the sheets was micro-meteoritres. Though, it did turn out that another significant component was Sahara dust, which was an important discovery in itself since before that it wasn't fully understood how the Sahara fertilises the New World.
when I was in fourth or fifth grade my teacher had the class do an experiment where we collected rainwater to search for micro meteorites. I don't remember the whole process but in the end no one found anything. Still a nice memory though
About 20 years ago, I was playing with a metal detector. I found a weird hard object that looks like a piece of rock with some kind of "fingerprints". I decided to keep it with the junk (nails, dimes and other metallic objects) that I found. 10 years later I figured that it could be a meteorite. I went to the sheed looking for my metal detecting treasures but I can't find it anymore.
You know, I once lived in a semi-rural area and one day I was playing around with an old car speaker. I was trying to get the magnet off it and accidentally dropped it on the ground a few times. Well, I then noticed something strange. Where it had hit the ground, it had a few little metal balls. I collected them and then used the magnet over about a square meter of area rubbing it through the soil and ended up with a lot of these little metal balls. At the time I was still in high school so I took them to my science teacher to see if he knew what they were. He told me he wasn't sure. Now, I think they might have been micrometeorites, but my question is, why were there so many of them. In a square meter of area only an inch deep there were hundreds of these little metal balls of various sizes.
There's a meteorite observation system outside of Oslo that calculate the orbit and crash sites of pretty much all (visible) meteorites flying over the southern half of Norway. I've been to a lot of these approximately crash sites and I've found 4 meteorites so far!
That is awesome. There is something similar available for the UK (fireball) that uses things like doorbell cameras and CCTV to locate meteorites. Infact the recent CI-type found in Gloucester was located using this network (by my MSc supervisor XD).
"in search of stardust - Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters" by Jon Larson is a good book to have alongside when you go hunting. Great information and photos in the book.
Fun fact: the scientist publishing the paper mentioned has been a jazz guitarist most of his life. He's playing lead guitar in this clip: th-cam.com/video/wAh77i3aH-I/w-d-xo.html He retired last year to spend more time doing research on micrometeorites.
I have a great book (except every picture has an annoying ring flash) I cannot remember the name of. I have strong magnets in all my friends downspouts. The meteorites are very cool. Put a new cookie sheet under fireworks... Beautiful colored glass and metallic spheres.
i have a little piece of meteorite its a campo cielo from south america and its really nice but I would love to go to a desert or salt flats or w/e and find one that would be amazing
im in southern California ive seen falling metiorites going down towards the earth not across like a shooting star but havent ever been close enough to drive to it or find it
yeah, I saw that article and tried it myself.... the roof shingles were coated with a grit that seemed to all be magnetic.... so yeah, it all stuck to the magnet... which sucks because I have a usb digi microscope i wanted to use
Matthew Sermons, try checking someone else’s gutters, especially if they have a sheet metal roof, which tiny objects won’t stick to. There may be tiny, magnetic bits of roof in the dust, but they won’t be rounded and glassy.
I have not found any, as I have not looked. But I will start looking tomorrow and eventually I will post a video in what I find along with pictures of what I find under a microscope.
I found a very porous iron Rock it's stuck to my magnet and after cleaning the debris off I still can't tell myself if it's some meteorite or just a piece of natural iron from the ground very small
how often does the average person get hit by one of these falling from space? I wonder if people get hit and just scratch it like a bug bite or something.
I'm curious as to why various elements forged in supernovae and neutron star collisions tend to collect together in chunks where the atoms are mostly of a particular element. That seems a little weird to me.
@@Slash687 - And these two things mysteriously act as an element sorter? I realized my original statement wasn't clear, so I edited it to make it clear what I was talking about. :-)
In the same way Earth has a rocky surface and an iron-nickel core, melting & gravity can do some sorting, called differentiation. Meteorites can be from the surface or the core of something that got smashed up, and hence be of different types. Some are just an amalgamation from something that was never hot or massive enough to have differentiation occur.
Why shouldn’t they be in chunks? They are produced in bulk under extreme pressure from gravity and other forces. It’s not as if stars or supernovae produce single atoms of different elements one at a time and evenly mixed. I’d say it’s the final explosion of supernovae that breaks down in fragments what were much bigger lumps. 😁
Tofu Said, there’s one at the Smithsonian with visible streaks in its ablation crust from facing the same direction as it fell to Earth. That’s the one I covet!
If micrometeorites are so common, then why don't people ever get hit by them? I realize the probability would be very low, but it should still happen to someone, at some point, somewhere.
They do, the issue is that the speed of meteorites decreases with decreasing size as air friction saps their velocity. One the size of a bean has a 'terminal velocity' of around 30-50mph, one the size of a small pea 20mph and sand grains? only a few mph.
If any of these micrometeorites hit you as it fell from space would you even notice and if not would you notice it if you were completely naked including no underwear?
just found this article in norwegian media (NRK) and thought about this episode of SciShow. Its in norwegian, but with a lot of nice pictures! www.nrk.no/skatter-fra-verdensrommet-1.14930142
Sorry to point it out, but might not be the best idea to send people, and especially kids watching the channel, climbing on top of roofs xD Its just an accident waiting to happen
I once found a meteorite in a stream bed when I was a kid. I suspected it might be a meteorite and living a few blocks from Bradley college, I decided to bring it in and have them give it a look see, and they confirmed my suspicions.
About a year later I was cleaning up one of my neighbor's yards for a few dollars, when I found another piece that looked almost exactly like it. I brought it home and put it against my other meteorite and my mind was blown as I saw that the 2 pieces fit together almost exactly. A few pieces were missing, but it was obvious that at one time they were together.
Bruh moment
Get doctor strange to use the time stone on them and see if they were once together
r/thathappened
@@areszippy4434 kind of cringe bro
Nuts
Question The Jewish Media says you
I have all the tools needed to do this project except motivation. Curse you, will power.
So, did you do it?
@@kyle_mk17 still looking for motivation. Thanks for asking 😉
It takes hours and hours and hours... I know because I did my masters on it.
a super easy way to do it is just to fix magnets to the outlet of your gutter. It will accumulate micrometeorites (and industrial iron particlulates which are very common in cities) automatically.
One of my relatives found a 3 or 4 kgs meteorite. That is quite heavy and big. It has a very dark color and scars due to melting. I love petting it
That's friggin huge! That thing is probably worth thousands of dollars, treat it carefully.
"who's a good rock, who's a good rock"
Hug it, squeeze it and call it George.
Yay Pet Space Rock!! :D
The black surface (ablation crust) and the dimples (regmaglypts) are from melting while hurtling through the atmosphere at extreme speed. That’s an awesome find! I hope they have a written record of when and where it was found.
I often discuss astronomy with one of my lecturers. He's an avid amateur astronomer, and once bought a piece of a mars meteorite found in Morocco. It's only the size of a pebble, but it's worth 800 dollars. I've had the opportunity to hold it in my hands, and it felt so weird, holding a piece of a world millions of kilometers away that we haven't yet seen with our own eyes. You could see with which side it entered the atmosphere and you could see the slight hint of red inside as well. Really interesting and special!
He had one of the 224 confirmed Martian meteorites? That's damn rare.
@@patrickmccurry1563 a piece of one of them, yes. If i remember correctly it was found around 2008 or 2009 in the desert.
that seems very very cheap. Only 227 of 73,000 classified meteorites are thought to be from mars. I have held soil samples collected during the 1969 moon landings though!
Mom: Clean your shelf, it's dirty
Me: That's my micrometeorite collection!
Don't even joke. Did my masters on micrometeorites and my samples were almost binned by an over-zealous cleaning.
I'm holding out for a macrometeorite.
I got my wheelbarrow ready! 😂
You may also want a helmet... and life insurance. O.O
if you wanna find actual meteorites then glaciers and deserts are your best bet. Look for dark objects. Go to a desert, find a large area of erosional desert pavement and you are relatively likely to find one. Happy hunting.
We are all made of stardust. Or: I consist of gutter goo.
_All Good Things..._ were made in goo, Q.
Actually it's even more mind blowing. Most of our matter was created in collisions of neutron stars! Check out PBS Space Time:
th-cam.com/video/MmgMboWunkI/w-d-xo.html
In the 1980's when we passed through Hallies(sp) Comet field, i sat out a large bole of water and the next morning ran a magnet through it and was able to pick up the pieces. Very cool!
it's worth noting that in urban environment you are likely to also pick up a significant ammount of industial iron particulates. I hope you got the chance to analyse your particles as having a suggested source would make a really interesting paper.
@@laellions I do this from time to time when we have other events and I get zip. I will say if I did not b4 that the only way I bot the pieces was using aagnet.
I have had multiple strokes so I do not read well at all so be patient with my writings.
@@EToddRoss Sorry to hear about your strokes :(. That is fascinating though! If you get the chance to analyse particles, even under light microscope, it is definitely worth doing! You might even be able to get a research grant, as you can actually provide a specific body of origin for the micrometeorites!
Pinpointing the exact bodies MMs originated from is basically impossible under normal circumstances. Best we can do usually is suggest the rough type of meteorite. Even that is problematic as MM composition often only reflects a single grain from the parent, due to their size. This could be a really cool, and potentially significant paper! Esp. Given that comet debris makes up only about 10% of MMs, and most of them are sub 50um.
@@EToddRoss if you ever do analyse those particles, I would love to take a look.
I've just finished a paper on micrometeorites discovered in 20ka british post glacial sediment, so I would love there to be more data available.
I could link my throw-away email address, if you are interested, even in just talking about MMs.
😊
My new business model: Sell gutter cleaning service to neighbors, keep goop and sift for micrometeorites, sell micrometeorites.
Profit! :D
I can save you the trouble. Just scoop up some dirt from the backyard and sell the individual grains as micrometeorites. Gullibility is so high right now you'll make a killing. You might even be able to sell regular rocks as small meteorites.
I've seen very small meteor pieces being sold for very high prices in a rock fair promoted by the university's geology institute
I didn't buy any cuz I couldn't think a way to tell my parents that I expended 65$ for a gram of rock
Jesus
I'll sell you an electron for just $10.
And here's a neutrino for free -- catch!
I know. A lecturer I often talk to has a Mars meteorite, bought off of ebay though. It's about the size of a small pebble, but it cost 800 dollar. Spacerocks are crazy expensive, more even if they're from important places (Mars, major asteroids, moon etc.)
I have a nice meteor here on my desk right now.. also when I was a lad in the late 50's we used to use the magnet out of phones to collect the iron in the soil in colorado because a teacher told us they might be small meteors.. that was the 2nd grade.. I do not know what happened to my collection from back then.. But wish I still had it today.. This was a good one guys.. I am gonna go collect iron like I did then as soon as spring arrives and the mud turns back to dirt.. Carry on..
@@googleeatsdicks well no ... just a little hot still.. actually it is very cool.. the whole story of finding it is strange to.. But that is for another place..
@@googleeatsdicks oh you party pooper! But you are right.. I think that is what he was getting at when he said that it was bright.. Well it maybe bright but it is a proven fact that I am no long as such.. and that I keep rocks on my desk.. Well now the world knows.. I am a not so brite rock collector..
@@googleeatsdicks Well I think so!.. in my limited capacity as an old fart.. But I have collected rock since I was a sprout.. It has paid off a few times for sure.. But the joy of doing it is tremendous if you are in the arizona or nevada area I still have some old hand made maps I would be willing to share with you.. I can no longer get down there anymore.. the gold and silver deposits I can not send because they are owned by individuals now and I have made agreement's But other rocks are to be had some very pretty and some semi precious..
@@googleeatsdicks Why do you have to be meteorite all the time?
"Project Stardust"? Ok, we're building the Deathstar!!
Or heading off to Egypt.
Scientist: *Calls the project Stardust*
Starwars: "WE STAND HERE AMIDST MY ACHIEVEMENT, NOT YOURS!"
@@spencerruston406 Holy Moly is that a JOJO'S reference?!
*Loading Nuclear Bazooka with Malicious Intent*
@@leodastopsign1653 I wish I could like this comment 5000 times. Lol
You're facial hair game is so on point, it has me contemplating climbing on my roof to look for tiny, metallic spheres.
This is highlighted to make me ashamed of myself for not knowing the difference between 'you're' and 'your'.
When I was a kid, my dad gave me a meteorite that he had found at work. I marveled over the fact that this rock had been to places I'd never be, out in the vastness of space.
Then a few days later he told me he thought he was mistaken and it was debris from welding. I don't have it anymore so I can' say for sure, but I do remember it having the melted exterior of a meteorite (memory can be faulty though).
As a kid i used to pick up meteorites all over the shale pit near our house and would sell them for like 5 bucks. Turns out they were were iron slag waste from when a train car crashed near us like 60 years ago. Little round lumps the size of marbles. Good thing they wernt actually worth anything considering i probably found a few hundred of them.
I knew a girl who found a meteorite the size of a softball, In her front yard. She told me she found it out there one day, never recognized the rock itself, but felt as if it just dropped outta the sky into her yard. It was indeed a space rock. It almost looked like a chunk of road or asphalt, but it didn't smell like tar. It smelled like Sulphur and burning metal. It had pits and holes on one side and like a bumpy melted surface on the other. The spot where it was picked up had some little pieces of itself scattered a couple inches around, and the grass looked like it had been chewed on or somebody maybe stamped into the same spot a dozen times. She's had that rock for like 4 years now, displaying it on a shelf and telling the story.
The urban micrometeorite guys name is Jon Larsen. He recently published a coffeetable book under the same Project Stardust name, full of beautiful microphotographs, as well as a guide on collection.
legend : Even in jail, he continued filming scishow space ^^
reid is in jail?
@@sectorcodec I think that is a joke about the beard and orange shirt...
As someone that installs gutters, i can tell you that, no, gutters are NOT cleaned regularly. At least not here in the state of mississippi.
What's the largest tree you've found in one? I once had to take out one that was six feet tall and had grown roots down a drainpipe when cleaning up my gradfather's shed.
@@garethdean6382 well... cant say i found a tree in one, not six feet anyways. Did a church that had about a dozen or so saplings from 1-3 feet. None in the downspout.
I use 4 neodymium magnets attached to a steel edging stake screwed to end of a long stick. I look in large parking lots close to the curbs, driveways, downspouts..... I've been looking a good year and have probably found around 30 plus a small meteorite. I do have a inexpensive digital screen microscope which helps, but once you know what your looking for you can see them stuck on your magnet. It's pretty cool when you find them. Got my neodymium magnets on Ebay. Happy hunting.
honestly amazed by the fact that this is what Jon Larsen
does outside music
I can imagine "Beaver" Cleaver looking for meteorites, and getting into trouble in the process.
I love you, Space-man. You always bring news of things I enjoy. Keep it up, love the channel. Teach us anything and everything you can.
If you live near the coast then you can use the method that McGill university scientists did in the 60s, 70s and 80s in a research project in Barbados. They set up sheets covered in petroleum jelly to capture the prevailing wind. Since there was nothing but ocean for thousands of km, a significant proportion of the dust that stuck on the sheets was micro-meteoritres. Though, it did turn out that another significant component was Sahara dust, which was an important discovery in itself since before that it wasn't fully understood how the Sahara fertilises the New World.
I have rain barrels that always have lots of stuff from the roof. I'm so going to check it out in the summer. Thx for that. I'll let you know.
_Project Stardust?_ Might wanna take a closer look at that scientist too. Lol
when I was in fourth or fifth grade my teacher had the class do an experiment where we collected rainwater to search for micro meteorites. I don't remember the whole process but in the end no one found anything. Still a nice memory though
One of the best ways is to get a magnet on a stick and go to the beach to look for them.
Check the sand,one grain at a time.
that's a great idea!!!!!
About 20 years ago, I was playing with a metal detector. I found a weird hard object that looks like a piece of rock with some kind of "fingerprints". I decided to keep it with the junk (nails, dimes and other metallic objects) that I found. 10 years later I figured that it could be a meteorite. I went to the sheed looking for my metal detecting treasures but I can't find it anymore.
You know, I once lived in a semi-rural area and one day I was playing around with an old car speaker. I was trying to get the magnet off it and accidentally dropped it on the ground a few times. Well, I then noticed something strange. Where it had hit the ground, it had a few little metal balls. I collected them and then used the magnet over about a square meter of area rubbing it through the soil and ended up with a lot of these little metal balls. At the time I was still in high school so I took them to my science teacher to see if he knew what they were. He told me he wasn't sure. Now, I think they might have been micrometeorites, but my question is, why were there so many of them. In a square meter of area only an inch deep there were hundreds of these little metal balls of various sizes.
There's a meteorite observation system outside of Oslo that calculate the orbit and crash sites of pretty much all (visible) meteorites flying over the southern half of Norway. I've been to a lot of these approximately crash sites and I've found 4 meteorites so far!
That is awesome. There is something similar available for the UK (fireball) that uses things like doorbell cameras and CCTV to locate meteorites. Infact the recent CI-type found in Gloucester was located using this network (by my MSc supervisor XD).
be humble because you’re made of earth dust, be noble because you’re made of stardust.
"in search of stardust - Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters" by Jon Larson is a good book to have alongside when you go hunting. Great information and photos in the book.
This is what I did my masters on :D. It is very cool. Good video!
Fun fact: the scientist publishing the paper mentioned has been a jazz guitarist most of his life. He's playing lead guitar in this clip: th-cam.com/video/wAh77i3aH-I/w-d-xo.html
He retired last year to spend more time doing research on micrometeorites.
I once set up a white bedsheet during the summer and collected an asortment of micrometeorites (and also some sand I removed)
Charlie Brown grew up to be so handsome!
that has nothing to do with meteorites
I live in a country town in Australia. We have water tanks that collect water off the roof. These tanks would be a good source of micrometiorites.
and also industrial iron particulates. Best place to find them is Antartica, but following that rural rooftops and drains are good.
I have a great book (except every picture has an annoying ring flash) I cannot remember the name of. I have strong magnets in all my friends downspouts. The meteorites are very cool.
Put a new cookie sheet under fireworks... Beautiful colored glass and metallic spheres.
oh just play sburb and remember to throw something nice in the flashing light orb, youll get meteorites in no time at all.
But please, dont let your dog get near it!
Gutters get cleaned fairly regularly.
I mean relatively.
I discovered large meteor rights regular size but I touched it with my bare hands to be honest that was before I knew I shouldn’t
i have a little piece of meteorite its a campo cielo from south america and its really nice but I would love to go to a desert or salt flats or w/e and find one that would be amazing
4:40 Micrometerorite
When you get that desperate to find a rock you need to check yourself in. ❄️
Found plenty already hey nice dark unicorn poo mentioned haha
Also, I didn’t have that in any of my schedule, but hopefully, I will soon. To SciShow Space From Orion’s Universe
This is just SciShow trying to convince is to clean our roof gutters
humans can have little a meteorite, as a treat
I got a meteor slice from the meteor some relative found in there farm in Canada was like 20 pounds or so before It was cut up
im in southern California ive seen falling metiorites going down towards the earth not across like a shooting star but havent ever been close enough to drive to it or find it
if you can see them, then yep, they're landing thousands of miles away.
"Gutters get cleaned fairly regularly..."
Annnd overhearing that sentence was all it took to get my wife to yell at me for 20 minutes straight.
Hmm... i clean and install gutters... ill clean em for the right price (depending on distance to travel).
yeah, I saw that article and tried it myself.... the roof shingles were coated with a grit that seemed to all be magnetic.... so yeah, it all stuck to the magnet... which sucks because I have a usb digi microscope i wanted to use
Matthew Sermons, try checking someone else’s gutters, especially if they have a sheet metal roof, which tiny objects won’t stick to. There may be tiny, magnetic bits of roof in the dust, but they won’t be rounded and glassy.
I have not found any, as I have not looked. But I will start looking tomorrow and eventually I will post a video in what I find along with pictures of what I find under a microscope.
What kind of microscope should I get for observation of cells and bacteria?
I have a piece of the Brahin meteorite. A piece of the universe like me.
Good way to motivate people to clean out there gutters haha
We are all made out of gutter goop!
To the roof!
I found a very porous iron Rock it's stuck to my magnet and after cleaning the debris off I still can't tell myself if it's some meteorite or just a piece of natural iron from the ground very small
2:24 ... Unfortunately that only contains the trash my neighbors living above my apartment have chugged out of their window.
love the vids sci show space!!!!!☺️☺️☺️😍😍😍
how often does the average person get hit by one of these falling from space? I wonder if people get hit and just scratch it like a bug bite or something.
What the heck!?
In the ad before this video, a man in a dress knocks a drone out of the air with a baseball bat. Lol
Cool, now I can make my space sword
Aww, you guys saw the Verge Science episode too?
yes, yes micrometeorites
I found them in low spots in street gutters after a rain storm washed off the street.
Maybe if i clean enough gutters I’ll be able to make a sword out of it.
Ok so Reed's full thick beard needs to remain a thing forever.
I'm curious as to why various elements forged in supernovae and neutron star collisions tend to collect together in chunks where the atoms are mostly of a particular element. That seems a little weird to me.
Collisions and gravity
@@Slash687 - And these two things mysteriously act as an element sorter? I realized my original statement wasn't clear, so I edited it to make it clear what I was talking about. :-)
In the same way Earth has a rocky surface and an iron-nickel core, melting & gravity can do some sorting, called differentiation.
Meteorites can be from the surface or the core of something that got smashed up, and hence be of different types.
Some are just an amalgamation from something that was never hot or massive enough to have differentiation occur.
@@Omnifarious0 It could be due to the cold welding effect. In space when two of the same element collide they permanently bind together.
Why shouldn’t they be in chunks? They are produced in bulk under extreme pressure from gravity and other forces. It’s not as if stars or supernovae produce single atoms of different elements one at a time and evenly mixed. I’d say it’s the final explosion of supernovae that breaks down in fragments what were much bigger lumps. 😁
“Project Stardust”? Okay Jo Jo
Have you ever seen the videos about the Enterprise and UFO
Even crazier space dust
I wonder if we may end up breathing those things.
I did found a meteorite. A whole bunch of them outside our door.
Man, I really want space material
Tofu Said, you can buy some small meteorite fragments for not much money. The bigger ones get expensive really fast!
Evil Sharkey yeah when I to the griffith observatory they let me hold a huge chunk. I want lol
Tofu Said, there’s one at the Smithsonian with visible streaks in its ablation crust from facing the same direction as it fell to Earth. That’s the one I covet!
If micrometeorites are so common, then why don't people ever get hit by them? I realize the probability would be very low, but it should still happen to someone, at some point, somewhere.
They do, the issue is that the speed of meteorites decreases with decreasing size as air friction saps their velocity. One the size of a bean has a 'terminal velocity' of around 30-50mph, one the size of a small pea 20mph and sand grains? only a few mph.
Drag magnet where building rainwater runoff and downspouts
O lol beat me to it
ash from foundries, well seeing as one village over a giant steel fabricator is located i'll take that as a no :D
If any of these micrometeorites hit you as it fell from space would you even notice and if not would you notice it if you were completely naked including no underwear?
Is this some kind of ploy to get me to clean my rain gutters??
Yeah, if your wife got you to watch the video ;)
just found this article in norwegian media (NRK) and thought about this episode of SciShow. Its in norwegian, but with a lot of nice pictures! www.nrk.no/skatter-fra-verdensrommet-1.14930142
Wait. WHAT? They found them HERE?
I never went micrometeorite hunting, because I don’t have a strong magnet or a microscope.
I bought a small iron meteorite for like 20$
Sorry to point it out, but might not be the best idea to send people, and especially kids watching the channel, climbing on top of roofs xD Its just an accident waiting to happen
Darn it, I just got rid of my electron microscope. I knew I would need it as soon as I did.
Was our planet not formed by what could be called meteorites over billions of years? In essence, every rock use to be a meteor or meteorite.
if they're smaller than that we've probably already inhale some.
In the words of JD from Scrubs - Check the poop!
One landed right in front of me I tried catching it in my hat. I couldn't find it after that. It was literally within arms reach.
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I need a ladder
I think I got some in my buds
aaaawwwee little baby meteorite 👶 🍼😍❤️❤️❤️❤️
aawwwwwwwwwwww
is his mustache wider on the left side than on the right?
Yo, what about a magnet?
OK, who would press the Thumbs Down button???? Why?
At least one person doesn't like his hair. Such are the reasons people click.
Is roof goop the official scientific term?
Use a magnet on the sand at a beach. You will find a lot!
Yeah, but beach sand can contain a lot of iron minerals from rocks. Where I live the stuff is actually mined.