\n Fragments of a meteorite that hit a home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in July 2024.
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<\/p>\n University of Alberta Meteorite Collection<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n When Joe Velaidum and his partner Laura Kelly stepped outside on a July <\/strong>afternoon to walk their dogs in Prince Edward Island, Canada, he wasn’t expecting to come home to something out of this world.<\/p>\n “We were startled to find the walkway littered with debris. Stones everywhere. They were scattered everywhere. And at first, we had no idea what caused it,” Velaidum tells NPR.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/p>\n In fact, Velaidum thought it was something that fell off the roof and began to clean up the gray, dusty material. Kelly’s parents, who live nearby, told them they had heard a loud bang. They suggested it could have been a meteorite strike. <\/p>\n Velaidum checked his home security footage and realized they were right.<\/p>\n The meteorite strike is believed to be the first time the complete sound of a meteorite hitting Earth has been recorded on video, one expert says.<\/p>\n “I’ve heard that other times sound has been recorded, but not like this: Where you see the rock hit the surface, shatter and then you hear the sound at the same time,” Chris Herd, professor and curator of the meteorite collection at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, tells NPR.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/11\/14\/calfire-nevadayubaplacer-photo_sq-47319744b73caf86118a21da1de260d0f316e9d9.jpg?s=100&c=100&f=jpeg\")
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