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01/16/2025
There's a strange trick of the mind where when a person sees a bolide (i.e., meteor breaking up in the higher atmosphere, above where even the roar of rockets bound for space, can be heard), they often report the associated sound of an explosion. Apparently the brain can manufacture an audio experience that didn't really happen because when something looks like it has exploded (where depth perception can't confirm the extreme distance) it decides that you should have heard an explosion, so it tells you that you did.
This hypothesis exists because when kill-joy astronomers or other geeks go around checking nearby audio recording devices after such events, they often rediscover what they already know, which is high atmosphere which is not dense enough to perpetuate compression waves (aka "sound") is still "abrasive" enough to create enough friction to atomize most things falling from space smaller than a bowling ball.
This time the noise is real, because this meteor became a "meteorite" (i.e., making it all they down to the ground) by literally hitting the bricks.
When playing the video, you should probably be sitting down, because the noise from this small impactor is.... well... astronomical!
Sound of Meteorite Striking Earth Captured for First Time by Ring Camera | PetaPixel
For the first time, a Ring doorbell camera has captured the sight and sound of a meteorite crashing to Earth.
