Sir, you have one of the most outstanding channels for astrophysics (and the like) that I have found on KZread. Informative, entertaining, conscientious, just pure excellence all around. Bravo, and thank you.

@corymoore2292

26 күн бұрын

And this is before he had really honed his craft!

You are one of the most underrated smaller channels i have found good work. I subbed.

@pb7491

2 жыл бұрын

Now January 2022.... and this is still one of the most underated channels. At present, John has a mere 285k subscribers. Now I'm not being rude, but this channel should be well above that. This and John's other channels will be listened to and enjoyed for many years to come. Won't it be funny when people relisten to these in many years ahead and think "oh cute... that thought X was Y".

The content, composition, editing, and voice of your videos are in a very rare class of videos I binge watch. Don’t ever stop. Nanotechnology, advanced AI, energy based life; we will find a way to preserve you forever.

Your voice is incredible for videos such as this! Thank you for all of your hard work!

@TheNuclearBolton

4 жыл бұрын

Do people ever call you Ben Dover for short?

Certain parts of the Canon song sounds like it was recycled in the S.S.Anne from Pokemon.

@LoFi3

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed this too

This reminded me of the recent analysis of the dagger found with Tutankhamen, believed to be meteoric iron. After 3000 years, it hadn't rusted away! I can only imagine the 'magical' or 'divine' awe associated with creating a blade made from iron falling from the sky.

@JohnMichaelGodier

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Meteorites are odd, the iron ones are made up of various alloys of nickel and iron and they can either rust away like you wouldn't believe or preserve well.

@dogfacedboy6947

5 жыл бұрын

I have a nice, two-ounce triangular piece from the Canyon Diablo meteorite. I drilled it out to wear on a chain around my neck - just to see WHAT would happen, IF anything would happen. What's odd is, it took me almost two hours to drill a little 1/8" diameter hole about 3/4" long in it. I was using a slow, regular electric drill because I don'y have a Dremel. Gotta go slow, the tungsten carbide bit doesn't benefit from excess pressure, no different than drilling though glass, really. EXCEPT - it's ALSO mightily magnetic, some definite blending of melted silica and molten iron. Try and mix THOSE two together? Umm, not here on the surface of planet Earth, you don't. I also have a lovely little chunk of the "iron meteorite" from Campo del Cielo - "stainless IRON?!?" It's definitely softer than steel, a good bit softer than stainless steel - but absolutely rust-free. Ask a metallurgist to whip up THAT stuff - not enough carbon to be steel, but enough nickel to be rust-proof? Again - not on MY home planet, you don't.

My personal favorite is the Campo del Cielo meteorite because I have a piece of it. I picked up a palm-sized chunk of it on eBay a few years back, and recently, after I began to wonder about its authenticity, I had it XRF tested through a contact at work, and it matched the iron/nickel/cobalt/phosphorus composition of CdC within a few tenths of a percent. Either it's real, or someone put a *ridiculous* amount of effort into making an exact chemical replica. The story behind it is really cool too, the fall having been witnessed 5,000 years ago by indigenous peoples and still being spoken of in local folklore today.

Excellent program on meteorites, and great little chat about real science. Thank you, JMG.

Could you imagine holding a meteorite that pre-dated the solar system? What an incredible feeling that must be!

Thank you for a series of thoughtful, well-researched, rational, and well-produced videos. Subscribed!

1) I very much appreciate the time & effort u put in to make these videos, thank you for sharing em with us! Love em! 2) In future, maybe hv the background music be a lot more background - it was pretty loud & made it hard for me to hear/focus on ur words

Wow, I have samples of six of the ten. Space rocks rock.

@JohnMichaelGodier

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed, some of the photos in that video are from my personal collection of samples, including the thumbnail which is an etched Gibeon slice :)

@middleagedwhitebloke

6 жыл бұрын

John Michael Godier Next month I shall be travelling to the atacama desert where I shall be searching for stones . When there I shall be visiting the Monturaqui meteor crater where I hope to collect a small amount of tektites . If I am successful I shall get in touch with you and offer to send you one in appreciation of your videos.

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

4 жыл бұрын

@Bj Williamsshhh uts okay sweetie, go back to doing what ur first name represents

Your voice is so relaxing for me, I've replaced benadryl with you because it puts me right to sleep. Not a bad thing at all. Thank you so much for these videos.

Naughty, naughty... Showing a slide of nucleic acid double helix while talking about amino acids, shame on you John Michael! Still enjoyed the video, though.

@bezzie9

5 жыл бұрын

lol ... nerd

@asahmosskmf4639

4 жыл бұрын

Alex and you are here for ? Plus are you in highschool ? Why is nerd a bad thing ?

@asahmosskmf4639

4 жыл бұрын

I was going to mention that whats naughty, is the meteors are not mysterious, neither are most of the circumstances.

Awesome! Like finding a dollar bill laying on the ground, I saw this post of yours and I had not seen it. Like a bonus. Great work John.

@henrikbger4111

6 жыл бұрын

so ... his videos are worth a dollar?

I will never stop being fascinated about how rocks just develop out in deep space, seemingly out of nowhere. Love the channel, great to listen to as background to whatever i'm doing.

Love the music, but it was loud :-/

@stevejobs5488

3 жыл бұрын

your mother is loud

Highly informative production ..thank you! :D

I like watching your videos. I actually learn something and it's interesting. I didnt know you wrote books until recently, I hope you can keep making videos in between writing.

GREAT STUFF. JOHN THANKS

Once while doing a night land nav I happened to look up and saw a green one. Quite low and amazing to see. It appeared to be quite low and it shattered into many others. The fact that it was engulfed in green flames has always intrigued me.

@fredhannum4015

Жыл бұрын

I witnessed a meteorite landing in the late 1970s near Palm Springs (Town of Thermal in Indio) it came in at a low angle very slowly with bright green flames at the front, with orange flames trailing. We tried to find it the next morning, and as far as we could tell it landed at the old polo grounds which are now the site of a music festival each year (Coachella).

I love the use of canon instead of that spooky music that's normally in your video, you should do it more I suggest

Bravo! More ! And thanks ...your goode..detailed and specific...i do admire how you look at the rocks...nice and slow...up close well lit...how to field i.d. metiorites...i need to refine my search...i need to really know the rare weird and wild ones...4000 newish planets...fresh geology s....do more plz.

1:25 written in german: Fallen from the THunderstone in 1492 in front of Ensishein. (It was german by the time the paper was written and printed.)

@JohnMichaelGodier

6 жыл бұрын

When I made that video I grappled with that, whether to call it France, Germany or perhaps most accurately the Holy Roman Empire. I went with the modern status quo for simplicity in the end.

@AlexTrusk91

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, i think its the best way to give the audience a feeling were to imagine a place. Nations are just concepts after all. I just added the info to explain why the original text was german. Well, unecessary to mention that i'm a big fan of your work :)

I have a really really weird non magnetic one almost looks like it was fire proof because it barely burned and has a very super light fusion crust so you can actually see the how the stone looked before it fell I love it it’s beautiful

Really digging the background music!

Buenísimos saludos desde Argentina

All your videos are fascinating, but did you hear about the group of scientists going around insisting that there's data to be gleaned from _tasting_ small moon rocks that have made their way to earth? They do this because they're _a little meteor._ Thank you, thank you.

Nice music choice i personal think the Berlin symphonie version ist the best one

Great video, But I feel like the music is a little to loud

has there been any meteorite that has hit earth with material, like a metal or elements which are completely​ foreign to anything we have on Earth?

@JohnMichaelGodier

7 жыл бұрын

Nothing completely foreign per se, but meteorites do contain some really rare elements like iridium which you don't find much of on earth. Another oddity is how nickel-iron crystallizes in space, it forms a lattice like pattern, called a widmanstatten pattern, and you an actually see that in the thumbnail for the video. But, strange materials may exist in space. It's theoretically possible to have a material that has negative mass. We've never synthesized any of it or observed it, but it's thought that nature does allow for it to exist. It would have a very strange property: it would be anti-gravity and fall up instead of down.

@villain1813

7 жыл бұрын

John Michael Godier negative mass? That just blew my mind. I've never even thought to think that. Could that be something like dark matter/energy. Wow, the times we live in!

@christophercarr5865

7 жыл бұрын

John Michael Godier Seems like you would want to look for negative mass material where there's no positive mass material. Would it end up in intergalactic space?

@jamesross160

4 жыл бұрын

@@villain1813 I know I'm late but dark energy would be different. E=mc2 so mass being negative still would make positive energy. The main difference is it would act inverse. So when you push on it it would move towards you. Or if gravity pushed down on it, it would move up.

Another sensational video i really love the style of godier videos.

How is number 5 considered a meteorite if it never reached the surface of the earth? Asking for a friend...

@revtomstiles

5 жыл бұрын

it's not

Small edit for you, number 5 was not a meteorite. Meteorites are fragments that survive to the surface of a planetary body when a meteor or asteroid enters the atmosphere. Love the channel!

Great videos

Omg, I thought I dreamed the thing about Vesta. Must have heard it in my sleep.

Amazing

Romans: if you love that meteor so much, why don't you _marry_ it? Elagabalus: waaaay ahead of you

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

4 жыл бұрын

*laughs in assassination*

@worromot

3 жыл бұрын

You could call them star-crossed lovers

@zetazimmer4769

3 жыл бұрын

I changed my middle name to Elagabala in honor of her, she was a badass Empress.

The Ureilite meteorite is quite interesting as well!

Wendy's hamburgers are meteor than McDonalds.

great video

Could a meteorite containing something poisonous, gas or matter, ever hit Earth?

@grasakfairy8969

5 жыл бұрын

Scorch428 - ohhh, good question. I never thought of that.

@PsionicMonk

5 жыл бұрын

Scorch428 It would need to survive the impact and the heat from traveling so fast through the atmosphere. But presumably yes. I believe the explaination for the zombies from "Night Of the Living Dead" was implied to be something carried by a meteorite, it I don't think it's a new idea but nothing is anymore huh 😂

@DreamSpaxe

4 жыл бұрын

Endless universe endless posibities I have a non magnetic meteorite that’s a little radioactive it reads up to about .20-22 I dropped it and every light in that room instantly shut off even though the light switch was still on and the only light in the room was an angel looking blinding light in the corner of the room coming off the wall; it was pretty scary but awesome at the same time I have the meteorite posted on my channel right now. It was like the meteorite turned off and stole all the electricity in that room and threw it onto the wall. I’d never sell it not even for a trillion dollars love my crazy lil rock

I was going crazy trying to recal the name of your background music: Pachelbel's Canon. It was the theme song of "My Sassy Girl"; a korean love romance movie I saw years ago.

This rocks!

Honestly, the music just detracts from my favorite part of the channel... JMG's voice.

I have a canyon Diablo meteorite, it's mesmerizing to look at. To me it looks like melted spaceship parts ;) I have one that has peridot dispersed in it that's my favorite. I paid $50 but they are going for thousands now. That was my best e bay buy ever!

What does the letter mean in the photos of meteorites (e.g. Eᵢ Wᵢ, Tᵢ, Nᵢ)?? Is it the type of meteorite, or something else?? Love the music BTW.

@todddavis1768

2 жыл бұрын

Chemical composition.

Soothing :3

Canon in d by Johann Pachelbel playing in the background, for a while I thought I was at a wedding.

0:45 "While several meteorites have been linked to their parent asteroid" - only HED group meteorites have been conclusively linked to a parent body - Vesta. The H group and CM group meteorites have been theorized to come from 6 Hebe and 19 Fortuna respectively, but most astronomers disagree. Interesting (well...to me) info on why we know where the HED meteorites come from: They display differentiation. Vesta is the only asteroid with a differentiated interior - it was once molten due to gravitational and radioactive heating. It is also the only object in the solar system that has a differentiated interior and a small gravitational well, and is inside of Jupiter's orbit. In order to survive the fall to the ground and be studied, an asteroid must be fairly large while in space. In order to have come from a differentiated object like a planet or a moon, that asteroid needs to overcome a large gravitational well and hit a needle in a haystack to eventually land on Earth (in a spot where a human will find it). That means the impactor that created the asteroid must be HUGE, and the parent body has to be somewhat close to Earth. Those kind of events are very rare. We can say with certainty that an asteroid from Pluto has never landed on Earth, for example, or Titan. Only the Moon, Mars, Venus, and MAYBE Mercury could realistically deliver an asteroid to Earth within the Solar System's lifetime. Venus can't do it in its current condition because of the incredibly thick atmosphere, but maybe there's an old rock floating in space still from early on in Venus' life that will eventually impact Earth. Mercury probably has delivered a precious few meteorites, but the likelihood of finding one is very small. There is one potential meteorite that we think may have been from Mercury, but it's probably not. If one is conclusively found, it will be wildly valuable. So we expect basically every differentiated meteorite to have come from Vesta, the Moon, or Mars. Once we find a meteorite is differentiated, we test its isotope ratios against what we know about those 3 objects. We can't do that with non-differentiated meteorites because there are thousands of potential parent objects. The parent objects might not even exist anymore. In some cases, the whole meteorite is the parent object. No non-differentiated meteorite has ever been linked to a parent body and likely never will. It's possible to buy pieces of basically any meteorite. If you buy a meteorite from Mars, the Moon, Vesta, and then an undifferentiated one, you can touch as many pieces of our Solar System as any human ever has. There are 3 asteroids that have been visited by NASA and the JSA and had samples returned, but those have been never been touched by human hands. They are worth hundreds of millions of dollars and are kept in a completely sterile storage environment.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we found a meteorite from the planet that collided with early Earth to form the Moon but would we be able to identify it as such?

@TheZigzach

4 жыл бұрын

You don't actually believe that is how the moon was created do you?

I have a bunch of small meteorites i won from auction's ,i wish some how i could find out were or what they came from...still cool just having them...some of them look just like the ones shown here.

@royrice8597

5 жыл бұрын

joe 9990 t , Most come from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, a mere hop, skip and jump from here at 400 million miles. Most you can get on Ebay or Amazon come from the huge Argentina meteorite @3,500 years ago. Named Campo del Cielo. Yours could be rare though!

Was that alcohol ethanol? Is there such thing as space hooch? 🤔

I have to say, I've never heard Elagabalus pronounced quite like that before... The Black Stone of Emesa wasn't a feature of the Greco-Roman world per se, which is why the Romans thought it so odd. (Quite apart from Elagabalus' other habits.) It was a Middle Eastern habit to revere meteorites as divinities, often as expressions of the god Baal. Elagabalus was the high priest of this particular rock before becoming Emperor. The Black Stone in the Kaaba in Mecca is probably another such stone, before its "demotion" to a mere devotional object with the rise of Islam. I don't know of any omphaloi that originated as meteorites. The only one I know of that still serves its original function (a marker for the spiritual center of the world) is in the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. I think it's carved out of either marble or limestone.

What do the cube-dice like devices imprinted with a letter/number next to the meteor on display stand for?

@thomasewing2656

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Nps: The cubes indicate what elements are prevalent in the samples.

Reputable Meteorite Dealers. .. now that’s a band name.

06:49 - Question? 🤔 When in studying this specific meteorite, scientists made an observation of it having to produce an alcohol "like" smell, would a factual characteristic to alcohol of it being odorless not be true?🤔 Oh Btw, I love to nerd out to this channel. 🤓 I appreciate the work and effort💪put forth into producing excellent content on this platform. 👍👍 Its fascinating to learn from these uploads. Ty and please, keep them coming for all us who love to get our nerd game on. ❤

What are you book about? I’d be interested in reading some.

Cannon in d? Nice

@brianshissler3263

6 жыл бұрын

I came here just to say that

How about meteorites from Earth?

@bfx20018f

6 жыл бұрын

This is just a guess but, I believe because the escape velocity of the earth is so high (25 thousand miles per hour). Meteorite's from earth must be very rare.

I hold one of mine in my hand right now. ~ K.

Anyone else see faces in the rock at 4:47. Or am I just really stoned.

Why is the meteor just laying there, and not in an impact crater?

1:24 its german, not french. german language, german paintings, german cities, german flags, german artists.

@JohnMichaelGodier

5 жыл бұрын

The town of Ensisheim is within modern France in Alsace near the German border. At the time of the fall, it was within the Holy Roman Empire, in what was then known as "Further Austria" oddly enough, hence all the German in the woodcut. Today the meteorite is located in the Musée de la Régence in Ensisheim and the fall site itself is also within French territory. The woodcut in the video is actually Swiss, done in Basel in 1492.

@simvlacrvm

5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMichaelGodier Yeah, germany lost these territories after world war 2. But its like saying the pyramids are arab, because today they are in an arab country. Or saying the eifel tower is arab in 50 years for the same reason.

@JohnMichaelGodier

5 жыл бұрын

Well, actually no. The Holy Roman Empire lost those territories in 1639 to France, which then lost them to the German Empire in 1871, then regained them after WWI. During WWII they were occupied by Germany, but due to treaty never annexed into Germany. The two accounts and associated woodcuts that you commented on were done in Basel and Bavaria in those local dialects by local artists, nowhere near Alsace. Now, metropolitan French is the predominant language used in the region and why I attribute it as French. And I am not going to state that a location within modern France is "German" and then give a history lesson to clarify that in a video about meteorite falls.

@simvlacrvm

5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMichaelGodier yeah, i am baffled on the fact that my first contact with you is a dispute about the history of Elsass. To be honest, you are the last astrophysics related channel i follow. Maybe one day, when the theories finally imploding, the subject will become interesting to me again, but i assume they will outlive us. Have a good one and sorry for my bad english.

Laughing at the thought of people chaining up a meteorite to stop it flying off again.

Needs more views. KZread's algorithm is bottle necking this content creator... Ey damn, that tiny displaypic looks like Thunderf00t at this resolution haha. (and with my bad eyes)

Big fan of the videos, but I'm mostly jamming to that sweet background music this time

Why conclude from amino acids in meteorites that they could not have also, and predominantly, have been formed on earth, or in the early solar system matter common to earth and meteorites?

U seem cool man

@JohnMichaelGodier

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm chill.

The delivery is drier than a meteoroid... Informative nonetheless!

That first pic looks like roads all over mars. Like a nuke went off and only left the roads.

5:03 i got a piece of this Meteorite!

What about the giant meteorite in Namibia?

The space rocks are getting married

what about the most famous one in the world ? "hajar al aswad Black Stone"

Have you ever considered the notion that perhaps life was seeded on Earth purposefully as deep space colonization efforts?

He sounds like the Good Idea bad Idea guy from Animaniacs.

I have a big slice of ensisheim LL6 Chondrite

0.09 . . . opal potch ? ( The white seams.)

Who dislikes your videos?

@henrikbger4111

6 жыл бұрын

YECs

Why Pachbels Cannon? Sounds like a wedding

@JohnMichaelGodier

5 жыл бұрын

It was the only thing suitable in KZread's royalty free music library.

music made me cry on this one JMG, makes me miss my wife

How can alcohol form without fermentation? And how can I keep the WH staff from drinking it?

@jackthompson1382

6 жыл бұрын

Donald Trump Donny

@nightlightabcd

5 жыл бұрын

The White House staff arer infected with a ailment much worse then alcohol, right wingism where truth are lies and lies are truth with their alternative truths!

Strange meteorites? The moon. Think about It. It kinda is.

#Meteorite Tag Night Im #Rock Up⭐️⭐️🤩🌍🌍

I hope they are still being chained up so they don't wander off again.

Is your neighbor a musician?

Wait a minute...why didn't he mentioned Moldavite?? Moldavite is a meteorite as well. Difference is its not made from metal.

@dmitrysadilenko6771

5 жыл бұрын

Cause Moldavite is not a meteorite. Tectites are meteorite related, but it is melted terrestrial material.

Mr. Godier, are you trained as a physicist? Your knowledge suggests that to be so.

😍 “I’m gonna marry that rock!” 🪨

If a meteor does not strike the earth it is not a "meteorite".

“...chained up to prevent it from wandering away the way it came.” Really? Lol

@musaran2

5 жыл бұрын

To them, a rock flying into the sky made as much sense as it falling rom the sky. It's magic !

I love Canon but why for this video?

Do you expect DNA to be the building block of extraterrestrial life? I would suspect DNA is Earth-specific.

@JohnMichaelGodier

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you need some kind of other chemical way to transfer information. DNA and RNA work. Not sure if anyone's thought of any other way. At least so far.

@CornerTalker

5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMichaelGodier I don't think we can conceive of it until we can study it, but DNA seems awfully complex to have evolved twice.

Sunburned? it gave off U.V?

Precise ! Bravo ! Your a prince amount tawdry strumpets ! Mo mo more!

The one with alcohol. Lets get the alcohol out of it and drink it.

The music was very distracting. Your content is very engaging and makes us think, but it’s hard to think with Pachelbel’s Canon playing loudly under your narration.

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