Joe Velaidum can’t help but wonder what could have happened if he’d lingered outside his front door for just a couple of minutes longer before taking his dogs for a walk.
The timing of their departure that day last July proved lucky. Just seconds later, a meteorite would plummet onto the front walkway of Velaidum’s home in Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, shattering on impact with a reverberating smack.
“The shocking thing for me is that I was standing right there a couple of minutes right before this impact,” Velaidum told CBC News.
“If I’d have seen it, I probably would’ve been standing right there, so it probably would’ve ripped me in half.”
I’ve always wondered what to do in this kind of situation. Somebody ought to know about it, but who do you call? Science? Ghostbusters?
Heh, neat. Here’s the original University of Alberta announcement. The pictures and the video are shared on Google Drive.
That’s not something you hear about every day.
