Watch a meteor land on Earth - BBC

Imagine finding a piece of outer space on your driveway! 🌠
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In February 2021, a meteor landed in England - and Professor Brian Cox explains where it originally came from.
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[@BilobateDrip]

In 2022, I was working security at a music festival deep in the woods. Our setting was a 200 ft. wide, 1000 ft. long clearing in between two toes of footfills. I was sitting at our tent next to our medic at 2 am when a metoerite flew straight overhead and broke into 5 pieces right above us. The medic and I looked at each other and at the same time said, "did you just see that!?" It will forever be one of my best memories, a truly once in a lifetime happening. Life is gorgeous, wish all of you a good journey, friends 😊

[@cultureal9544]

You are very lucky to see that!

[@sanseijedi]

Good on you! I’d probably have been looking the other way🤔

[@URFUTUREUK]

He said 2021.

[@mrfibuli]

​@@URFUTUREUKhe never said it was same one. He said a meteor

[@BondJFK]

2022 was lockdown time right ?

[@Lion_Heart_Zimbabwe]

Zimbabwean here. Last Thursday, I was out at dawn walking my dog in one of Harare's suburbs when I saw this extraordinary bolide/meteor flash across the sky from west to east towards the sunrise. It was a brilliant green. I watched it burn up in the atmosphere. That has to be one of the most beautiful natural phenomenon in existence. ☄️

[@pamvipond3628]

I saw the same thing in southern NSW Australia last Thursday about 5.45am while I was driving to work - amazing sight but very little news about it here

[@Lion_Heart_Zimbabwe]

@@pamvipond3628 That's awesome! They are absolutely magnificent to witness.

[@ChrisNathan]

I really enjoy seeing the cows watch the meteor!

[@DanielWhite-v4e]

no

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@DanielWhite-v4e no

[@moonshoes11]

I resemble that remark. ;)

[@Mmouse_]

Cows watching stage lights.

[@Rahi-e5d]

R cows ur neighbors or relatives lol 😅

[@Mark-uk8wz]

Imagine opening your door and Brian Cox is in your driveway holding rocks

[@shannondore]

I love it! He's awesome.😊

[@DR4NNY]

Brian Cox will always captivate me with his knowledge and storytelling, we need more programmes like this!!

[@JumpJeho]

Imagine you're a rock flying through space for a couple billion years only to land in some lady's drive way.

[@Summon256]

"imagine you're a rock" i stopped reading at that part...

[@arniehammer69]

Imagine you’re 1 billion-year-old rock and you’re dug up and made into some woman’s driveway and then you get hit by a space rock even older than you.

[@_asantesana_squashbanana_]

I'd be pretty happy to be honest.

[@almVancouver]

Heh

[@RWLXXII]

Weren’t we all just rocks flying through space already?

[@abrarmullan1]

Cows : Our great great great great great great great great great ancestors were not making this up.

[@captainsbeach7583]

Me after watching the video: "So where's footage of the so called meteor landing on earth?"

[@themanfromtaured114]

The government won't let us to see it

[@SonyStudioPro]

Its all clickbait 😒

[@JS-yj7ow]

The cows know more than you realize! They’re unfazed.

[@אילעובד-ע8ד]

🌺

[@krashd]

Because the aliens use disruptors, not fazers! They're disrupted cows!

[@McCadebountyhunter]

They’re not fazed because they turn the ‘udder’ cheek! 😂 Sorry not sorry! 😂

[@Carmafixcars]

Legend has it that it's still flying through a bunch of put together clips on youtube infinitely

[@EduardoEscarez]

I experience something somewhat similar some years ago. I was using my computer in the night, and while it was cloudy, suddenly the sky got a tint of green and then I hear a bang; then I start to find some information and listening a live night radio program, and it was a meteor crossing the sky over here in central Chile 😁

[@amos083]

"It was the sound that most people noticed" -- I truly hope it was not this ominous background music...

[@pandahot586]

it's bizarre to watch where it came from and it's interesting to see how it landed on the planet earth. BBC is quite good at explaining such science thing~

[@Xenc5]

Great parking by the meteor!

[@Mimzrz]

imagine a meteor landing in your driveway and the government just comes and takes your whole driveway

[@DavidBritton-nl1wv]

Once it lands, it's a meteorite.

[@Maxumized]

You Sir, should be given the Nobel Prize

[@derekking7319]

So..what is the difference between an Asteroid and a meteor?

[@daedalus_20v]

@@derekking7319 a question better suited for google than a YT comment, but the simple answer is "size, location, and stage of existence." Asteroids are bigger than meteoroids. When either enters Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors. IF they manage to survive all the way to Earth and don't just burn up in the sky, they are now meteorites.

[@derekking7319]

@@daedalus_20v eloquently put sir. You are correct in all you say. Size seems to clinch it as all or most come from the same place, the Asteroid belt. On occasion, some come from further afield. Thank you for your knowledgable input!)

[@ScottThePisces]

But moments just before it lands, it's a meteor...right?

[@Frostie3672]

Was driving home in Weston-super-Mare a few weeks back & a caught a spectacular view of a meteor burning up in the sky right in front of us, first time I've ever witnessed it for real.

[@karansjet3823]

I remember as a kid on a late night drive home with my parents through the rural areas and for a good 10/15 seconds a almost bright green streak through the sky before it dissappeared in the air. That moment really triggered my interest in space, sci-fi and things like that!

[@leftcoastline]

In 2017 I was driving on a highway late at night through the mountains of BC. I was alone on this stretch so it was dark except for the full moon glow bathing the landscape. Suddenly the mountains in front of me and the smoky skies (bad fire season) lit up in a pulsating blue glow, getting brighter and brighter, almost as bright as at sunrise or sunset, but a cold blue light. The shadows of the other mountains behind me were flying across the landscape almost like a daytime timelapse. It got quite bright for a moment and then quickly faded back to darkness. It was all over in a couple seconds and I didnt get to see the bolide itself since it was behind me but I knew exactly what it was. It was after Chelyabinsk (sp?) and was just like some of the footage from that event with the pulsating and rapidly moving shadows. Sure enough it was in the news the next day, seen across the province and into the USA. Its path was estimated to be about 200kms from me. In hindsight I wish I had stopped after or rolled the window down as I likely would have heard the boom several seconds later. Very cool experience.

[@celtisafricana4984]

Clickbait! "Watch a meteor land on earth"? Precisely zero footage of it. BBsC

[@guillermodelnoche]

Exactly! Just say AI representation of… so we can all move on.

[@Macarite]

“Precisely 0 footage” nah there were tonnes of clips 2/3 thru the video.. cmon man, slightly clickbait but less bait than ur comment 😳😳😳

[@celtisafricana4984]

@@Macarite oh, please? Give me times where you see the meteor impact the earth? Title of the video is as misleading as most other BBC reporting!

[@Macarite]

@@celtisafricana4984 good point! No impact on earth shame that house didn’t have a ring doorbell :((

[@celtisafricana4984]

@@Macarite I was thinking the same, especially as the presenter hinted at it when he was saying how prolific CCTV and doorbell cams were

[@sergiodominguez9558]

There are several voices that are iconic when it comes to space. This gentleman, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Jill Tarter, and Heidi Hammel

[@youliekthait7973]

If I've learned anything from Civilization 6, when they picked up that rock, a heavy chariot spawned in the capital.

[@kevinabiwardani7550]

Help me, I accidentally upgraded my Chariot into Horseman, now my Horse stockpile is in minus.

[@momo23461]

👍🤣🤣

[@killreastrbunny]

And even to this day we are still waiting to see the meteor land on earth like the title says.

[@meh5552]

Whoa. That is so cool!

[@Jan-qg1iy]

Glad it was just that relatively small rock.

[@angelaandersons7918]

No way, mind blown! Hilarious when it goes backwards lol so cool 😎 the rock came from outer space and he chose a random house for his holidays?! Whattt

[@jimhiggs6281]

Lol! It is all so hilarious how the footage didn’t show the impact magically. 🥴

[@transvestosaurus878]

Scraping three seconds of information over three minutes of over-produced TV: that's pop science.

[@peterk4626]

Orrrr telling it as a story to open the minds of the masses and get them to start thinking about our place in the universe etc? Might just inspire a few more to stop par-taking with infantile human bickering and wake up before our tiny silo'd thinking destroys us? Just saying lol 😂

[@heythere6983]

yeah they reallllyyy are trying to milk this as much as possible.

[@susanroutt6690]

Sometimes I would just rather save time and read an article.

[@johnishikawa2200]

Those doorbell video images of that meteor remind me of the opening scene of the 1953 sci-fi horror movie called ' It Came From Outer Space ', staring actress Barbara Rush. A very underrated film, I might add!

[@WhiteTriForce]

They sent that rock back where it came from ! ☄️ Now they just need to send This story, back where it came from ! 🥳

[@christinalauren01]

I LOVE YOUR NEW LOGO! KEEP IT EVERY YEAR! KEEP CBBC EVERY YEAR! Keep CBeebies every year!!! Did you know that CBBC is the sister channel of CBeebies?

[@MD-zm6sn]

Man those visuals at the beginning would have gave me nightmares for weeks when I was a kid. Used to have to wake up in the morning and make sure the sun was still there man it was crazy I don’t even know where those thoughts came from. Used to ask all kinds of questions the people around me didn’t know how to answer.

[@christinalauren01]

WE LOVE YOU, BBC!😊

[@ZayaMillis]

I love Professor Brian Cox so much!!

[@90klh]

I guess that asteroid belt is just like a bunch of pool balls floating in space all moving and if one bumps one just right it can send it into corner pocket earth? Kinda scary

[@hopebgood]

It is. Just don't think about it!

[@90klh]

@@hopebgood oh trust me it's not like I sit around dreading a meteor strike. Its the state of my country (usa) and the world at large that keeps me awake. How is humanity content to sit by while the world burns, micro plastics are in our brains, and fascism's on the rise.... Plenty to worry about THIS side of mars I guess

[@InspireMe819]

i saw a couple of those. it sounds like a fireball zipping accros. Blue Green color in the night sky and Red Orange in the day sky.

[@buddychrist5]

I learned long ago when I watched the 80s version of the blob not to mess with meteors 😄

[@ChaseBernal]

Amazing

[@haseebsab9445]

He looks like john wick

[@nastygibbs9373]

Damn ... triggered my existentior !!!

[@davideagling6415]

A piece of kryptonite..! Nice.

[@stop-the-greed]

Visitor from a different realm .....sounds like a heavy metal album

[@sciics]

what was missing at the end was a voice that said "Mortal Kombat"

[@christinalauren01]

YOU’RE SO SPECIAL TO US!!

[@624radicalham]

Where can I watch the whole program and what's the name of this BBC presentation?

[@james332_3]

I saw it, i told people to take a look at it, they never cared the less, it was in England few days ago

[@krashd]

"Did that scientist just say meat-eater? Run my friends, fleeee!!" - one of the cows, probably

[@maryburns7385]

What would be helpful with these shows/videos, is if you’d put in the corner, the words “actual footage”, “cgi”, “reenactment”. I often get so involved in what you’re showing I don’t stop to think it’s anything but real. Yes, I know you don’t have cameras in space tracking meteors that hit Earth, but I’d find it helpful.

[@vanmush]

I misread that, I thought it said a meteor had landed on the BBC, i almost watched that!!!

[@TheTanman412]

Almost any grid that has solar, usually also has excess at Noon, imagine if everyone could store this and use it from 4-9pm?!

[@Vignesh-nb3ls]

0:41 why does it feel like an iphone add

[@d1Page762]

Yeah

[@dylanredmond759]

😂

[@Philippines1780]

its not?

[@deemisquadis9437]

😂😂​@@Philippines1780

[@ar_krrish]

Man.. I love your job! ❤

[@peterneumann7145]

Very good wouldn’t some photos of the thing before they bug it out or the exhibit in the museum been nice

[@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible]

Can someone explain this "online rights" issue ? If it's made by the BBC, and they want people to watch it, why not allow anyone in the world to use iplayer or better still, put it on this channel ? This is just a frustrating teaser for those of us who cannot get iplayer.

[@redf7209]

because the rest of the world has not paid for the production. Never mind you will eventually by paying for adverts on other channels that eventually show it

[@hellsw0rth]

“The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said…”

[@jmi967]

Like the BBC knows anything about statistics

[@hellsw0rth]

@@jmi967 I’m not sure what that has to do with what I said.

[@Powerball247]

That thing was really Mooooooooving, eh?

[@MakeElectricity]

aliens throwing huge rocks at us with 50'000km per hour speed instead of balistic missiles

[@MakeElectricity]

they kept developing their catapult technology instead of moving on into new things like we did, it could have been us but we took a different path to tech

[@derekking7319]

@@MakeElectricity could these aliens throw a bunch towards the Cremlin perhaps?

[@ull4h]

What series is this from?

[@alantipping2939]

"Solar System", it's on BBC iplayer.

[@lelilimon]

A slight terminology correction. If meteoroid "land on Earth", then it's a meteorite. If it burns in atmosphere, then it is meteor.

[@criticalpoint7672]

Once I saw a small meteor come down at high speed, slow down, loose all of it's speed midair and then simply fall vertically like dropped from a high raised building, but still red hot, just without a fairy tail. It was night and I saw it clearly being red hot and land at about 1 km away from me, maybe less. Probably the angle at which it enter the atmosphere caused all that.

[@joelrichardson8771]

“They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that?”

[@jamesmollan2681]

Was there a label on the rock that stated place of origin? Just because you may be able to work out a local final trajectory it will never tell you where it came from. It could have easily ricocheted off another asteroid, and come in from a different trajectory. Merely speculation.

[@latesttechtrends1227]

what if it did hit something and changed trajectory? sometimes people are just so stupid.. in space wherever u draw a line, u'll find rocks. lol

[@Rvbcaboose714]

Dang, they need Iron Dome over there🤣

[@klumzy1000]

I saw something like this a few days back but no one is saying anything about it 😭😭 I have picture evidence

[@Susan-c1q]

I could listen to Brian Cox all day and every day on any subject.

[@storm2vega]

That's Gandalf aka Grand-Elf.

[@yuichichi]

Um mind explaining what could have triggered its departure from the asteroid belt?

[@Roman49837]

I’m surprised nobody in this chat mentions the fact that the spacex dragon capsule just entered the earth. And then you have all these fear mongers, including BBsC.

[@jmi967]

They didn't land one on a house.. ..yet

[@TonyVillaguin]

That’s no Meteor, that’s IT!

[@Nandrall18-25]

Cows: "WTF is that!"

[@vishalthescientist]

What camera equipment did this use?

[@mariokery7155]

Imagine living on a rock covered by wet mossy forests and ocean. Hurtling through space travelling hundreds of kilometres an hour and that's us humans living on earth 🌎 and no one is driving.

[@garyk1334]

The Cows know a meatier when they see one

[@tilak231]

Solid!!

[@kezminnufc]

We missed one when we were 140 miles out at sea in holland 🇳🇱. Literally by minutes I woke all the lads up it was 4am we all stood on the platform looking at the aftertrail. I got photos and it was still there 7hours later and got photos then also. In the sky to us it looked about 40miles long but probably hundreds of miles long . It's was glittery and red firey shards with the naked eye but the camera got the best pictures it got as it was still dark at 4am but all the lads were buzzing they seen it and I woke them up. The photos are on tiktok

[@Fusion_4000]

So that's where i threw the baseball

[@bellascharfenstein]

well probably according to Marjorie Taylor - it's a the Biden Administration controlling meteorites - like it does hurricanes 🤣🤣

[@kellydalstok8900]

I thought it was common knowledge that only Trump can change the trajectory of hurricanes with his magic sharpie.

[@bb5979]

difference is people have spoke about the ability to control weather for decades, and not just your average joe. Doesnt make it true but the fact you’re trying to conflate that into people thinking a meteors controlled is just dumb

[@daedalus_20v]

​@@bb5979 The fact that you're trying to conflate that there is some kind of logic behind one uninformed idiot's "weather control" theory simply because other uninformed idiots have been talking about it for decades is what's dumb.

[@Bucketbrain82]

Prof. Cox in da club 👁

[@krashd]

Gettin' jiggy wit da meteorizzles!

[@petergriffin383]

Where's the full episode!?

[@joered4689]

Wild af

[@ジヤンスニヨ]

When I was small I saw a bright flash in sky.. scared as hell ran into my house and never looked at that .. greatest regret of my life😅

[@7415_Gamer]

Well done to the Investigative Team who went to the Asteroid Belt to do the investigations.

[@kineticdeath]

Belters are throwing rocks at us already!

[@VersatileStrings]

Wow, an asteroid came from the asteroid belt 😮, video was excellent, but the end was abrupt. Obviously asteroids mostly come from the asteroid belt.

[@CHEVYCAMARO4GEN]

Is that Brian Cox?

[@krashd]

Yes, before he starred in Succession.

[@HyaghoMiranda]

where can i watch the full thing?

[@danielshehta7831]

Modern air defences would easily intercept those rocks in space

[@redf7209]

no, not fast enough

[@boeingpameesha9550]

My sincere thanks for sharing it. ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಂಸ್ಥಾನ ನಮೋಸ್ತೇ. God's blessings and grace be always with us.🙏🏼

[@Motiv8_Motiv8]

How often does this happen?

[@Jerry-wb7vh]

This is as natural as it can get. Except it is arriving late after us humans

[@mstrlouis]

Would use it for an engagement ring. And say to my girl, it's better than diamond because it's from out of this world, and you deserve it it because there is no one like you. 😊😅

[@Stataze]

Just buy her a normal gold ring. It was created by a star from before the birth of our sun

[@mstrlouis]

@@Stataze hahaha 😆

[@Stataze]

@@mstrlouis I don't know what's funny.

[@PlansG50]

Its a spaceship. Aliens come and go all the time. Comets and meteors are just a cover story. Good acting by Brian Cox.

[@jamiedriscoll9781]

It landed? What airport did it use? Didn't know meteors followed a glide path.

[@sumogangchief3927]

Where is full episode

[@marcelmarceau2526]

One impacted earth in Akure, Nigeria in 2020, and it didn’t even make the news.

[@lukewalker4813]

Beware the man with meteorites in his pocket!

[@Mouth4War88]

The Camera man is the real MVP!

[@krashd]

Most Volatile Pimp?

[@michaelgray6429]

The man who's narrating the video is a professional physicist so he knows what he's talking about yes I do agree it was a little over produced.

[@drewwbliss2027]

If it lands in the uk it's going straight to the british museum.

[@crushingyouallyt]

So that means this rock is more expensive than diamonds.

[@comeconcon569]

Meteors usually explode in the air before hitting the ground.