Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...

Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.

Splat! A meteorite impact recorded by a doorbell camera gave scientists a rare view of a space rock at the moment it hit Earth. The sound is like shattering glass.

Herd says the rock in question is what’s known as an “ordinary chondrite,” the most common type of meteorite, composed of iron and nickel (hence the magnet) and various other elements includ ...

A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for ...

Meteorites are the pieces of asteroids and ... Any differences from the CI chondrite composition would have happened through the same processes that formed asteroids and planets.

The meteorite left a small dent in the walkway and the rock was confirmed to be ordinary chondrite, the most common type of space rock to strike Earth. An American Airlines flight collided in mid ...

It’s classified as an “ordinary chondrite” — dubbed “ordinary” because they are common as far as meteorites go. But its origin is no less fascinating: “We’re quite certain in the ...

The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier ...

Last summer, a couple in Canada returned home from walking their dogs to find a pile of debris outside their home, which turned out to be from a meteorite — and it was all recorded on their security ...