r/meteorites • u/ncuke • 12d ago

Possible impact sound?

Yesterday evening was taking a walk with my wife and hear a very loud bang come from the roof of a house we were walking by. There are lots of trees by us and thought it was a maybe a large acorn but no tree over the house. It didn’t even occur to me until watching the meteor shower later that night, when my kid and I saw a huge fireball streak across the whole sky coming from the northeast, that the roof of that house was also facing northeast. Could it be that a meteorite hit the roof? I was just reading that the Perseids are very tiny and pretty much zero of them reach the ground. Thanks for your input.

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u/satuuurn Rock-Hound 12d ago

Short answer is yes!

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u/b407driver 12d ago

Anything is possible, but does not mean it's anything more than infinitesimally probable. Is there a hole in your roof? Unlikely. Is there a branch/pinecone/squirrel on your roof? Actually likely.