A couple in Canada narrowly missed being struck by a meteorite that crashed outside their home just two minutes after they had left for a walk — and their doorbell camera captured the space rock’s crash.
One evening last July, Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, of Prince Edward Island in Canada, returned home from walking their dogs, when they found their brick walkway splotched with dusty debris in a star-shaped pattern. A rare recording captured on their doorbell camera showed a fast-moving space rock hurtling out of nowhere and smashing into the ground with a loud crash and an explosive burst of gray dust.
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