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The Charlottetown meteorite was a meteorite fall observed on July 25, 2024. It is notable as the first meteorite known with video and audio of the impact recorded and as the only known meteorite fall in Prince Edward Island, Canada. [2] The Charlottetown meteorite is classified as H5 ordinary chondrite. [1]
1908 – A fire destroyed most of the town of Fernie, British Columbia. 1908 – The greater part of the city of Trois-Rivières was destroyed by a fire; most of the city's original buildings, many dating to the French colonial years, were destroyed. 1909 – Phoenix, British Columbia, destroyed by fire, then rebuilt. [citation needed]
The meteorite has been named the "Charlottetown Meteorite" and was found to be made of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. The fragments are now a part of the University of Alberta Meteorite ...
A Nevada County man's home was destroyed in what locals believe was a meteor strike. Fire officials are investigating the claims. Meteor may have caused fire that destroyed California home ...
1904 – Great Fire of Toronto, April 19 fire that destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Canada. 1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [6] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [7] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10.
A possible meteor caught on video that “looks like a flaming basketball” falling from the sky may have been responsible for destroying a California man’s home.
A meteorite splits and one piece lands on a car in the small town of Lennox; the other piece in the mountains outside town. The town begins to progressively flash freeze, and the effect spreads outward at an alarming rate. Charlie Ratchet, a local father, teams up with Alex Novak, a graduate student who wants to study the meteorite.
Millennia ago, a meteor half the size of the Statue of Liberty struck an Middle Eastern city. The event may have inspired the biblical story of Sodom.