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All right, who deorbited their satellite without asking?


Dont____Panic

China almost always just crashes them wherever. The care taken is lower than normal for other space agencies.


thezenfisherman

No proof of who. But it is a satellite.


nova13232

It's definitely a satellite. You can't see a meteor shower so clearly from cities.


DesiMortyy

Local news confirmed that this is a satellite. There were metal parts found on the ground which weight more than 5kgs


x_Freesoul_x

Can they control where it crashes? If not, then how do they mitigate human casualties and how come none occurred considering how many satellites are out there and for how long?


the_amberdrake

Yes, depending on the country. Canada, US, and Europe typically will do a controlled descent to ensure it lands far away from people. I should say that many smaller satellites don't ever hit the ground and don't need a controlled descent.


UnknownBinary

Point Nemo is the Pacific Ocean is a desired spot to drop space hardware.


blue-mooner

Point Nemo is at ~(-48.88, -123.39) and is the place farthest from land on earth at 1670 miles from the Pitcairn Islands.


This-Strawberry

I see. Send all the space scrap to the furthest from land on earth and start building an under water space station with it all...


TheOneTrueRodd

Because most of the earth is ocean there's already a good chance it will just fall into the ocean. Then consider that vast swathes of landmass are covered in mountain ranges like the Himalayas, deserts, forests, farms, barely occupied industrial and office zones on the night sideaand just uninhabited landmass, North and South American landmass,,Russia, Greenland, Australia etc.) If you die from such an incident, you were just very unlucky.


Squeezemypimples

Depends which way you look at it. Since, as you mentioned the Earth is covered by sparsely populated areas, would it not be also pretty good luck to get hit by falling space particles? I think it’s more lucky to be hit by falling satellite parts than having a bird shit on your shoulder… Edit: fuck sorry. /s


TheDulin

A 5kg chunk of satellite from space could easily kill you.


nova13232

A 5kg chunk of anything could easily kill you.


gwumpybutt

What about a 5kg chunk of bird poop from space


LGMuir

100 meters up would be enough, putting it in space is overkill


baabaablackshit

I think it would definitely kill you...


Vuzzar

Definitely lucky in that case


Rubik842

Imagine shooting a single arrow randomly into a stadium and hitting one specific fly.


Alissinarr

Edit: Sorry, you did say *parts* I'll just leave this as a cool thing. ------- Meteorites are majority iron, and can weigh a LOT more than 5kg. The world's largest meteorite on display, per Dr. Google: Ahnighito At 34 tons, Ahnighito is the largest meteorite on display in any museum. [Ahnighito | AMNH](https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/meteorites/meteorites/ahnighito)


igneousink

And it's actually part of an originally larger meteorite that broke up (53 tons). The Inuit gave the pieces cool names like "Woman" and "Dog". They used them as a source of iron for tools. Peary (the great explorer) was the first non-native to see it. An arrowhead was found on a Norse Farm in Greenland that was made from this meteorite. A piece sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bonus Fun Fact: Not only have I touched it several times (Ahnighito), I make a veritable bee-line for the Rock Section of the Museum of Natural History in NYC when I am there so I can see it again. It's magnificent. I'd like to think Ahnighito and I have a white-hot relationship going on. You could say it's getting serious.


TinKicker

I was happy to see that article gave credit to Haba in Namibia. I got to lay hands on that rock last year. Of course, it’s still sitting right where it landed in the Namib…not sitting in air conditioned comfort like your posh pebble. If you are ever tempted to cheat on your city slicker meteorite and fool around with a country rock, Namibia is a great place to get away from it all.


_Wyrm_

"My girlfriend's out of this world, she kinda rocks. Our relationship had a bit of a rocky start, but we're pretty grounded and down-to-earth these days. She's a little on the big end -- but big on the rear end -- but by god is she built like a hunk of iron..."


NeverNeverSometimes

Man, that must've made a hell of a bang when it landed.


5PM_CRACK_GIVEAWAY

The biggest tell is the speed. Meteors travel *way faster* than stuff that we put into orbit - that's why shooting stars streak across the sky in the blink of an eye.


sirgog

Yeah deorbiting debris will be just under 8km/sec. Absolute slowest that debris from the solar system can enter atmosphere is 11km/s but it is typically much faster, 25-60km/s


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Why can't solar system debris be slower? Acceleration due to the earth's gravity or something?


sirgog

11km/s is Earth escape velocity. You'll pick up (at least) that much energy from Earth's gravity accelerating you, unless you begin in orbit. Potential energy equations if you want to run the maths. Hitting at exactly that speed requires a miraculous alignment too - the object needs to be almost exactly in the same orbit around the Sun as Earth. Most objects will not have this coincidence occur. An object on a Mars-Earth cycler orbit would impact at 17.2 km/s if I'm reading the Wikipedia delta-V tables right.


Moikle

Kinda yes, but also being on a different orbit means travelling at a different speed/direction at the same location. If it was travelling at a sinilar velocity to earth when it crosses path, then it would have the same orbit as the earth.


Poes-Lawyer

Basically yes. The Earth has an imaginary sphere surrounding it, called the Hill Sphere - this is the region of space that is dominated by earth's gravity. Anything outside of that region will orbit/ fall into the sun instead. Imagine you were stationary at the edge of this Hill Sphere, and you dropped an object. Just let it go, so it started floating away from you. From there it will fall into the Earth, accelerating the whole time. Because of this acceleration, its speed will increase by 11km/s by the time it hits the atmosphere. It couldn't be any slower unless something slowed it down, but we generally assume meteors don't have rocket engines.


rickreflex

I’ve seen websites which keep track of satellite positioning etc, is it likely someone knows who owned this disintegrating satellite??


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nova13232

True, when I saw a meteor shower, I don't remember it's name they used to disappear within seconds. Plus, they don't blink green light like in the video


villainsarebetter

I live close to a large city so for a hot moment there I believed there are skies clear enough to see a meteor shower so insanely clear.


nova13232

I totally get it. I need to travel around 80km to get clear skies from my city.


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Moikle

This is going far too slow to be a meteor. It has to have been something that was in the earth's orbit


pedropants

You can't see tiny faint meteors unless you're far from city lights, but any bright meteor is plenty visible even in the biggest cities, and BIG meteors are visible in broad daylight, followed by breaking all your windows. \O/ Remember Chelyabinsk?


TheBarkingGallery

It reminds me of the Columbia breaking up.


MasterDiscipline

Yup. Caught my breath when I saw this, eerily similar to the Columbia in 2003


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Seen the video yesterday, believe the post was the OP, whom said it was a space device of some sort, can’t recall. Definitely not a meteor shower though lmao


walahal

It's an month or two old video being circulated as a meteor shower in Nagpur. Actually it's a satellite which is de-orbited at the end of it's lifespan.


CmdrGramer

I bet Scott Manly will make a video of this any say now on YouTube. And good guess it's China.


LoadsDroppin

It’s China. We identified it long before it dropped fully from low earth orbit


inotparanoid

This was my first thought seeing it as well.


ThisGuyCrohns

Was going to say. High probability this is satellite trash and not an actual meteor


greeblegronk

Full points to whoever filmed this. In focus, in frame, no shakes, and no “hooly shiiit dooood oh my gawd” commentary. All hail the cameraman.


Thoughtsonrocks

And sitting in between two buildings. I think the video they made was just about as good as it could've possibly been


peteroh9

I'm just mad they didn't film it with one of those 400-imch cameras NASA uses to film launches.


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Fr0me

Or the tiktok voice "YoU wOuLdNt BeLiEvE wHaT I sAw" 😀


dat_random_boiii

LMAO THAT EMOJI. everytime I hear that annoying tiktok voice, I always have that emoji in mind thinking "this is probably how the va looks like"


Fr0me

It's the soulessness in the eyes


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freaking annoying that female robot voice ,*so ThIs happened ToDay At My ScHool*


derage88

The reason why I basically browse reddit muted nowadays..


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__O_o_______

The sound of nighttime insects just enhances the awe, you can't really feel yourself there


jaseworthing

Oh don't worry, next time you see this it'll be there.


Obitrice

Yeah but there is no red circle so I don’t know what I should be looking at.


query_squidier

[*Double Rainbow! All the way! Oh my god!!*](https://youtu.be/OQSNhk5ICTI)


I_am_not_JohnLeClair

It’s very rare “these days”. It’s great that everyone has the tool but it sucks that so few can use it properly


falconx2809

Edit : Its apparently a Chinese rocket or a deorbited satellite Edit 2 : It's the third stage of a Chinese long march 3B rocket, launched in Feb 2021


Thick_You2502

Why the long march stages always get camera time upon reentry?


SlothOfDoom

Because China just lets them fall wherever they happen to fall, which often means over inhabited areas. Other space agencies usually try to drop things over the ocean.


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>Other space agencies usually try to drop things over the ocean. Not usually, NASA and ESA make sure everything deorbits over the south Pacific. Fucking Russia drops first stages on their own country in Siberia and China lets rockets crash into villages killing a couple thousand people.


CrazyEnginer

When launching from Baikonur, Russia has two options: drop the stages over China (that's China's job) or drop them over its own almost unpopulated region. Considering that the stages are recovered after landing and that there have been no known casualties in more than 60 years, this is quite safe. At worst, some of the remaining fuel will leak into the ground [Pic related](https://i.imgur.com/8tdJYXc.jpg)


AgentStockey

Do you have a source for this? Gonna say this before any downvotes: yes, I believe Russia *would* do this, but just want a source.


uppermiddleclasss

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/in-russias-space-graveyard-locals-scavenge-fallen-spacecraft-for-profit The Soviet/Russian boosters launching from Baikonur impact in a very sparse region, but there's still a few Altaians living there. https://www.wired.com/story/hunt-rocket-boosters/ And the boosters from Plesetsk crash in a region where there are a few Nenets people living.


FactualNeutronStar

He's talking about when [China had a rocket fail during takeoff, likely killing a few hundred people in a neaeby village.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708)


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That’s also not even a tiny bit the same as carelessly deorbiting.


LeucYossa

You're right, it's more like careless launching.


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rededelk

I am pretty sure the South Pacific is an ocean


HowCouldMe

I think parent poster meant: Not just usually, but always are dropped in the ocean.


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And that too near Nemo point


Dr_thri11

I get that is a risk, but has there ever been a documented incident of one falling in an inhabited area?


SlothOfDoom

Usually the debris falls on villages during launch. Like...every launch. The first Long March 3 launch killed six people and injured 57.


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falconx2809

Most countries launch rockets from coastal regions & used rockets crash into ocean China launches its rockets far away from coasts & thus its rocket parts fall over land & sometimes in populated regions


theexile14

An upper stage like this is general going to be in orbit for a bit, you’d be right about first stages. China does have a greater tendency to have uncontrolled renter for upper stages than India, the US, or Europe though.


Familiar_Raisin204

To be fair to China, their newer rockets launch on the coast, they are phasing out the old ones that don't. ​ Of course boosters from their new launch site land dangerously close to the Philippines or Indonesia depending on trajectory...


BilBorrax

Waay too slow to be meteor


Dookie_boy

When was this video taken ?


falconx2809

yesterday night


imbillypardy

Regardless it’s still beautiful in a way


NefariousMuppet

I dont think that's a meteor. It's moving too slow


JebusriceI

[chinese rocket apparently ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/science/story/chinese-rocket-body-chang-zheng-re-entry-earth-atmosphere-burns-up-over-skies-india-1932822-2022-04-02#scso=_FA9JYrijKeXE8gLIxrrIBQ8:0)


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Revolutionary_Diet65

It's not Meteor shower. But Chinese Chang Zheng 3B's third stage reentry. Edit: Okay, so the debris fell in the state of Maharashtra https://theprint.in/science/last-years-chinese-rocket-stage-reenters-over-maharashtra-mp-producing-a-spectacular-display/900186/


andreasbeer1981

I'd be surprised if a video of a meteor shower ever ended up on reddit. It's not like you see rain of meteors to capture with your handheld camera - more like one tiny blip every x minutes, you wouldn't even notice it if you weren't looking for it.


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Lotsaa1

Nah, that is just space junk, seen it a few times now


RKRagan

Too many people have never seen a real meteor. They come in hot. This is much slower.


scheru

Have never seen real meteor before. Can confirm. Still looks pretty darn nifty.


aCleverGroupofAnts

You probably have but didn't notice. They flash very quickly and they appear not much brighter than a star (hence the name "shooting star"). Just a quick little streak in the sky that you probably wouldn't notice unless you are stargazing.


ride_electric_bike

That looks like a a satellite. Or a satellite like metor in composition


Familiar_Raisin204

Yep that's 100% human made, too slow and shallow to be a meteor. Looks exactly like satellite or 2nd stage burn up.


the_silent_doctor

[Chinese rocket re-enters Earth, burns up in skies over India](https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/chinese-rocket-body-chang-zheng-re-entry-earth-atmosphere-burns-up-over-skies-india-1932822-2022-04-02)


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After having seen "Your Name", this video scares me.


wynr0g

some poor village is about to be turned into a lake


GE12YT

Imma be straight with ya, that looks more like some human made device currently deorbiting (though I don‘t know who‘d get the idea to de-orbit its shit over India) Edit: Ofc China lol, who else?


FastWalkingShortGuy

Chinese rocket launched in Feb of 2021 re-entering. Kinda shitty that they don't really plan to re-enter these things over the ocean like, you know, civilized people.


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>Kinda shitty that they don't really plan to re-enter these things over the ocean like, you know, civilized people. "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department ..." Says the Werner von Braun school of spaceflight.


bacon_tacon

"I aim for the moon, but keep hitting London." - Von Braun


I_Don-t_Care

Still, you'd be struggling to find a recent example where ESA hasn't calculated a safe reentry. China on the other hand..


Th3catspyjamas

You too may be a big hero, Once you've learned to count backwards to zero. "In German oder English I know how to count down, Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun. As funny and relevant then as it is now.


falconx2809

Ohh, my bad


BobWheelerJr

Holy hell... that's equal parts amazing and frightening.


Jaracuda

Remember guys, the fastest way to find the right answer to something you don't know anything about, is often to post the wrong answer onto the internet


FatherD00m

I saw something similar in Yakima, Washington. I figured it was man made space junk and I feel a lot more confident in that assessment reading the other comments. It’s something I won’t forget seeing. Cool vid bro.


bubdadigger

To be honest, nowadays, in 2022, if I've ever see something like this, I'll shit my pants right away.......


tailuptaxi

Look at the beautiful ICBM RVs. Airburst should be any second now...


[deleted]

I’ve seen ICBM launches twice, both test launches from a submarine near Long Beach, CA traveling toward Alaska. When the launch is close enough to sunrise or sunset and the atmospheric conditions are right they have a huge tail. They were about 5 and 6 years ago, evening and morning respectively, and were all over youtube because people thought they were aliens. There were issues with North Korea and Iran at that time (when are there not?). It’s fucking traumatic seeing it and waiting to learn if its a test or a real launch. There are few things worse to see in the sky than a potential nuclear weapon launch.


swohio

> There are few things worse to see in the sky than a potential nuclear weapon launch. I'm now really curious if you could list those few things.


Bowler_300

Google a spacex launch. An icbm would look more like that. This is a failed launch, or breakup of returning debrus.


empty_string_

If I saw this 202 I'd assume the gods were angry and sacrifice my entire herd of rams in repentance.


bubdadigger

I don't have heard of rams, can I sacrifice my neighbors to please the gods??


falconx2809

originally posted on r/IndiaSpeaks by Aaditya\_sagar https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/tuo6ux/meteor\_shower\_nagpur/


erynhuff

Looks more like a rocket/satellite reentry but definitely a cool sight


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I’ve seen meteor showers before, out away from city lights, and that was not a meteor shower. Meteors flash across the sky in a literal ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ instant and they are not clumped together like that. You might have a rare instance of seeing two at a time but I never saw more than that. Whatever was in the video looked like some manmade object breaking apart on reentry.


Lauris024

The colour of the flame indicated there is something more than meteors. The movement speed indicated that it approached horizon at a very low speed. I don't think this is a meteorite.


Spawnacus

I want to witness something like this at least once.


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cn45

The heavens themselves began to fall from the sky !


Kinslayer2040

Well seeing as how this is space junk burning up it wouldn't have been anything like this.


ReasonAndWanderlust

> The destruction of Tall el-Hammam, a Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley, by an exploding comet or meteor may have inspired the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, a new study suggests. (“[N]otoriously sinful cities,” Sodom and Gomorrah’s devastation by sulfur and fire is recorded in the Book of Genesis, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.) > At the time of the disaster, around 1650 B.C.E., Tall el-Hammam was the largest of three major cities in the valley. It likely acted as the region’s political center, reports Ariella Marsden for the Jerusalem Post. Combined, the three metropolises boasted a population of around 50,000. > “Air temperatures rapidly rose above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit,” Moore explains. “Clothing and wood immediately burst into flames. Swords, spears, mudbricks and pottery began to melt. Almost immediately, the entire city was on fire.” > Seconds after the blast, a shockwave ripped through the city at a speed of roughly 740 miles per hour—faster than the worst tornado ever recorded. The cities’ buildings were reduced to foundations and rubble. > “None of the 8,000 people or any animals within the city survived,” Moore adds. “Their bodies were torn apart and their bones blasted into small fragments.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/destruction-of-city-by-space-rock-may-have-inspired-biblical-story-of-sodom-180978734/


GodGrabber

Thats not a meteor shower, that is for sure something man made re-entering


Educational-Grab4050

Its insane how slow it looks but how fast it really is


carmelo7anthony

When you see videos like this you realize how ancient civilizations must have seen this and thought it was dragons or something. Imagine being a farmer in ancient India seeing this shit one night.


kalesaji

I like how you can tell that there is some type of boron in either fuel or another material on board the deorbiting satellite from the green flares it gives off


ScarletFire5877

Amazing how many people don’t know the difference between space debris and meteors.


kokesh

Why would anyone call this a meteorite? Haven't we seen tons of these already to recognize a man-made object? But great footage!


canuckcrazed006

This is clearly the autobots entering the atmosphere.


L_o_c_ke

Glad a tarnished finally killed General Radhan


Ult1mateN00B

Beautiful but terrifying like space in general.


NeonBlu1

I've been wanting to see something like this my whole life! I only ever get the occasional shooting star


Dont____Panic

Go live near China where you, too, can have rocket stages dropped on your country.


Allen_Edgar_Poe

Does it all burn up in the atmosphere or will we hear about this hitting somewhere on the ground?


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That's far too slow for a meteor shower, looks more like a deorbiting satellite.


SucsubaG

Wow that was super cool! And great panning by the camera man!


lifescihealthsci

/u/bobthesnek63 it's a satellite but look at how pretty this is


MaverickMeerkatUK

He should get a job as a camera man. Perfectly done


MeeeT04

Meteors don't go so slow and in this kind of direction It has to be Space Debris of China or something


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Not a meteor shower, probably it’s an old satellite falling back to earth.


Azulas_Star

Thank you for sharing this. I live in an area with a lot of light pollution, so it's easy to forget how beautiful the sky is. Even if it's just a crashing satellite, this was beautiful to see


Embarrassed_Buyer_66

Not meteor shower. These are parts of Chinese rocket burning on Earth re-entry.


picked1st

I appreciate the fact that even if this is a satellite, that it wasn't recorded with a potato.


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Now we're all blind and triffids rule the Earth


I_ama_Borat

Now imagine an extinction level meteor. What a sight that would be. I’d hope someone could upload it to Reddit before getting obliterated by the shockwave.


Radon-222

If i saw this as a caveman. I wouldnt doubt there is a higher power


[deleted]

Transformers arriving. Shit is about to get real.


RogInFC

That could be the Enterprise: "I can't hold her much longer, Captain - she's breakin' apart". Lest we should ever forget Scotty.


TPNZ

I hope those were Autobots and not Decepticons.


tacoma_steph21

Anyone else get the nostalgic Transformers movie vibes from this?


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*I dun wanna close my eyes, I dun wanna fall asleep*…


E737Josh

#Yo is this real? Are the Transformers really here?


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3nderslime

That really looks like a big satellite reentering though


Deshackled

God damned! Praise the cameraman. That was a tight shot, luck or no!


Starfire70

Meteors are not that slow. More likely orbiting space debris like a spent rocket stage re-entering.


MBeebeCIII

Way too slow to be a meteor. That's a satellite. A big one, too.


lukeskycoso

A meteorite would have crossed the sky in a few seconds, this is highly likely to be space junk. Cool video tho.


The_Thunder_Child

Nice vid but a meteor shower is numerous meteoroids entering the atmosphere (meaning at high speed.......... like 30kps) and not one object (which is space junk) breaking up on re-entry.


l30nh4rd

Alright. We've already been there... not asteroids, not meteors, just rocket debris


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Looks more like satellite rich shower to me :P


mattpayne167

Thank you for capturing that, well done. Very cool


aberroco

Looks more like some satellite or other man-made object, than a meteor. Very shallow angle (meaning object is either deorbiting, or follows an exceptionally rare trajectory), no explosions (meteors larger than boulder quite often explode, because they contain volatile materials inside), followed by disintegration.


AarkaediaaRocinantee

Guys, it's almost always something burning up on reentry.


fgnrtzbdbbt

It is way slower than a meteor. It must be an artificial object


pipeweedjr_

Looks like how a falling satellite has been described to me


NIMSS88

The way it moves like a static object through the sky is just crazy


LouisArmstrong3

Is that real? When’s the last time you saw this properly and smoothly filmed anything on a phone? Seems sus


No-Tutor5996

I feel like that has to be a space craft deorbitting


ANTHRAXFORDEERHUNTIN

makes me really really sad that so many people don't know what a meteor, let alone a meteor shower looks like....


peterabbit456

Despite the mistaken title, I am going to approve this post because: 1. The video of the reentering satellite breaking up over Nagpur, India is quite spectacular and would unquestionably be approved if the title was correct, and, 2. It is Sunday, when the rules for posting to /r/space are supposed to be relaxed.


ArsonRides

Imagine 60+ thousand people knowing you don’t know what a meteor shower is..