MetaBallStudios visually compares the nuclei of the most well-known comets to New York City, which gives us a great way to understand their size. The video also shares with us some interesting facts about these comets.
Explore mineralogy at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County! This video shows how mineralogy is applicable to a wide variety of disciplines, including the study and exploration of the Solar System.
On July 25, 2024, a Ring doorbell camera recorded a small meteorite impact in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, marking the first time a meteorite impact has ever been recorded with both video and audio. The sound of the impact is very clear, and the video is high-quality enough that the meteoroid is visible for a couple of frames before its collision with Earth. Scientists gathered the Charlottetown meteorite’s material from the impact site and determined it was an H5 chondrite.
This beautiful animation by Manuel Petitat depicts the landing sites of all confirmed meteorite impacts between 1500 and 2013. This includes both meteorite falls and finds. Interestingly, you may observe that these become more frequent closer to the present and are concentrated in certain regions of the world. This isn’t a property of meteorite impacts, but a result of the fact that the impact confirmation process is imperfect. For example, notice that there are no confirmed impacts in the Amazon Rainforest. This is because there aren’t many people keeping track of impacts there, and because meteorites wouldn’t last long there, not because the Amazon is inherently less likely to be impacted.
In this video, Geography Viz maps 200 impact craters around the world. He also highlights many standout craters, describing their formation and how they have shaped their environment.
Dr. Michelle Thompson at Purdue University discusses early discoveries from examining samples of asteroid Bennu. These were brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission on September 24, 2023.
CNBC gives an overview of the state of the asteroid mining industry and discusses its current challenges with TransAstra and AstroForge, two asteroid mining companies.