Meteor Over Alberta, Canada The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball

The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Daylight_1972_Fireball
This is footage from early 70's of a meteor passing over Alberta Canada....
Just to clarify, the host is talking about a "meteorite" actually its a meteor because it didn't hit the earth's surface.
Meteor = fragments that pass through the Earth's atmosphere, heated to incandescence by friction.
Meteorite = Meteor that strikes the earth
...from Understanding the Earth Series
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F709C458C9513D9F

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[yodez3]

umm, it's not a meteorite unless it hits the ground. This was a meteor grazing the atmosphere.

[mineguy101]

thanks, you are corect yodez, I guess the commentator got excited seeing the meteor.

Cheers

[EdgarTheGreen]

That's not a meteor, its Goku!

[hubergeek]

I saw one when I was like 8 years old. It turned the night into daylight.

This was in 1978 in the Caribbean Dominican Republic.

[chuckbyf1]

@22871987 The one that struck the Arizona desert was extimated to be traveling 11km/sec. Now that's fast. We wouldn't see it coming. Just hear and feel it.

[TheZAMBONILADY]

Great footage. Thanks for uploading. I saw a Boloid near Westport, Ontario in the summer of 1996 around 4:30 pm. Thought it was a plane coming down at first. It blazed out of the west and then disintigrated with a loud bang. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Then I find out that it is a once in a lifetime occurance. Weird thing is my dad and I saw another one a couple of years later. Guess it was his turn.

[mattsieluv]

Remarkable that somebody else caught this meteor on camera. It would be so easy today to capture multiple-views of one given all the cameras that are around us and available. But things were very different in 1972, not everybody had one and used it all the time. There is the better known home footage of this from Grand Teton National Park, but somebody in Alberta was also lucky enough to have a camera out and be able to get it on film. And a daylight meteor is even more rare to see.

[ericou812]

:48,cool!!

[muleteammate]

Estimated size of of the object that created Meteor Crater in Arizona was ~100 feet in diameter.

[ForceField9]

The damage of this meteor, if it had indeed impacted the Earth's surface, would have been the equivalent of a Hiroshima-like nuclear bomb. Per Wikipedia

[tr41]

If I am not totaly mistaken; A meteor of the size in this video would depending on density, angle and velocity do anything from exploding in an airburst with up to a few tens of megatons TNT equivalent, to hitting the ground in a partialy broken up state and create a crater up to a few km's wide. Nothing too serious, though people within a circle of about a 30km radius might not agree. Outside that it would be mostly quake damage that could pose a problem.

[HoveringAboveMyself]

@Kawaiibat is too small to survive entering the atmosphere, they explode in it like the one in the video causing no damage.

[heathey2]

It would have produced a crater something like that of the one in Arizona but probably a bit smaller. If it hit the sea then it would have produced a fairly destructive tsunami.

[Kawaiibat]

How much damage would a 102 feet across meteorite caused?