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@@SadieAbby I'm a minor plant fanatic/amateur and still learning botanist as well as a rock hound so take me anywhere and I'll be taking pictures of plants and filling my pockets with rocks. As I learn more about plants I pay more and more attention to them and in a few years time I'll probably be catcalling plants like Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't.
the chances of finding a fossil meteorite are alot higher than you might think but chances are, you wont know it was any different from the rock sitting next to it
There's a theory that the Late Ordovician extinction that wiped out 70% of invertebrates was caused by a Gamma Ray Burst less than 65 light years from earth. Supposedly, it was so powerful and relatively close that it destroyed a lot of the ozone layer, and the surface of the earth was exposed to high levels of UV radiation, which subsequently helped lead to an ice age. Scientists found evidence for radiation damage in algae, and organisms that lived in shallower parts of the oceans were affected greater than ones in the deep. Pretty cool stuff.
You are the bestest. I love your humor and you make all the videos , fun and entertaining ,as well as teaching us to love nature.we need you . Never leave
I definitely thought this was going to be a video about the ALH 84001 meteorite (the controversial magnetotactic bacteria containing meteorite). Personal opinion: just geologic magnetite! 😅
I love these videos so so much. Thank you for making them, I have seen almost every single scishow and they keep me so consistently fascinated and enamored with our universe. Great work team!
Has SciShow ever done a video on the Chicxulub seiche waves? Basically when the impact struck it was so powerful that all the way from the Yucatán it shook North Dakota. Like slamming a door so hard it makes waves in a bathtub. Except with glass rain.
I found a fossil on a job site a couple weeks ago. I walked over it a few times and the small bumps sticking out, which I have assumed to be vertebrae, caught my attention. Looks to be some type of small boney fish with long fins. It's a round rock about and inch diameter. Has me looking in the rocks on jobs now searching for more
Fun fact! Fossil rock fragments from space are a lot more common than you think, but you'll need a microscope to find them because they're dust sized! Fossil "micrometeorites" are cosmic dust particles that also get preserved in sediment - the best place to find them is in chalk because their black colour contrasts the white "background" calcite grains. There's also a lot of unanswered interesting questions about them and it's the topic of my PhD and masters :D
Limestone is some pretty cool stuff. You can find marine fossils and impressions all over here in Ohio. I've found some very cool fossil clams myself, and quite a few rocks from quarries with very distinct impressions.
So does this mean you could have fossils of earth rocks? If so, I imagine they would be pretty common. Weather or geology moves rocks from one place to another, and the rocks get their structures remineralized by whatever's around them. Or is there something special about these iron space rocks that allows them to fossilize better?
Technically yes we do get "fossils" of Earth rocks its just we call them metamorphic rocks instead of fossils. Specifically mineral replacement metamorphism is the type analogous to what happens with fossil meteorites and bones respectively. There are other types of metamorphism which involve much more active and dynamic processes like mountain building volcanism and or subduction with high pressure and or temperature conditions, but these tend to involve the recrystallization of the original source rock/material which tends to destroy fossils.
I wondered the same thing. The slices of the core samples must have been really thin and then lots of graduate students toiled away for countless hours laboriously scanning the samples with microscopes. Just a guess.
Very very cool! Had no idea. Chemistry+time: "Hello rock, you are now a different rock." How did mineralisation turn a meteorite to gold tho? That is some alchemy type shiz
I know there's trace amounts of gold in seawater, so it's possible the mineral/metal makeup of the fossil meteorite encouraged the gold in seawater to deposit on the meteorite? I'm no expert on that subject, but my limited knowledge points towards that being the most likely theory within my own head.
Hang on Hank, isn't there a hypothesis that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter used to be another planet that Mars may or may not have been a moon too? Mostly as an explanation for both the belt and the extreme scarification on one side of Mars.
Not quite, there are hypotheses about a planet V between Mars and the Asteroid belt, that could explain the late heavy bombardment. It either got ejected off the inner solar system, or crashed into Mars.
Since earth has been enlarged by millions of years of meteorites, how is it even possible to distinguish any part of earth as having come from a meteorite? Why are substances only found in meteorites not already part of earth's makeup?
@@jwlsiee if they were the case what would the significance of the statement be? He would just say it looks like any old iron not specifically "iron found in the core of ancient planets".
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kid's want a ragdoll Hank. where can we buy one?
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Wow, SciShow. Not usual for you to use clickbait titles.
That Swedish scientist crawling around on public floors looking for meteorites is an absolute legend. True dedication to the craft
Truly reminds me of my passionate (but mad) professors at university- take a geologist anywhere and they will find a rock to look at 😂
@@SadieAbby I'm a minor plant fanatic/amateur and still learning botanist as well as a rock hound so take me anywhere and I'll be taking pictures of plants and filling my pockets with rocks. As I learn more about plants I pay more and more attention to them and in a few years time I'll probably be catcalling plants like Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't.
Iunno, I feel like either he forgot where that one singular meteorite he found was... Or there was none in the first place
@@SadieAbby I m just imagining your proffesor on all four crawling in a floor mumbling continually to himself “rock rock rock”
the chances of finding a fossil meteorite are alot higher than you might think
but chances are, you wont know it was any different from the rock sitting next to it
That’s what makes the chances low…? Lol
The chances of finding it is high, but the chances of knowing you found it is low
Was this originally about psychopaths or something? But then psycho is swapped for meteorite
@@dillonlamb2011 we psycho meteorite hunters prefer the term geologically ambiguous
Hank, your presentation style, and sense of humor make learning about these fascinating subjects that much more enjoyable! I'm a dedicated fan.
That is just plain cool, Hank! That's what I Iove about sciences like paleontology and geology--always something new coming up. Great video!
There's a theory that the Late Ordovician extinction that wiped out 70% of invertebrates was caused by a Gamma Ray Burst less than 65 light years from earth. Supposedly, it was so powerful and relatively close that it destroyed a lot of the ozone layer, and the surface of the earth was exposed to high levels of UV radiation, which subsequently helped lead to an ice age. Scientists found evidence for radiation damage in algae, and organisms that lived in shallower parts of the oceans were affected greater than ones in the deep. Pretty cool stuff.
This video really inspired me. From now on, I too will spend my free time crawling around in public buildings.
"Rock-shaped rocks are evidence of space fossils!"
[Conspiracy Nuts have entered the chat]
A rock can be shaped like anything. Why would it just be shaped like a rock unless it was trying to hide something?
@@jameshill2450 And what's the shape of a rock that's not shaped like a rock?
@@KaiHenningsena stone?
Hank, as a German I just have to like the video for how well you pronounced "Widmannstätten"
That's what I was thinking too
You are the bestest. I love your humor and you make all the videos , fun and entertaining ,as well as teaching us to love nature.we need you . Never leave
I love that I first saw Hank in a biology class and I'm still learning from him a decade later 💛
Hank's best German pronunciation ever at 2:10!
Scientist: looking for fossilized meteorites in limestone floors🧐
Train station passengers: well, another mad guy...
I definitely thought this was going to be a video about the ALH 84001 meteorite (the controversial magnetotactic bacteria containing meteorite). Personal opinion: just geologic magnetite! 😅
I have a whole ass degree in Geosciences but this video taught me something completely new to me, thank you Hank!
My three fave things: space, rocks, and fossils!
Who knew they could be combined into one?
love what you do guys
extra points for pronouncing the probably german name Widmanstätten perfectly
I am for sure going to take up that brilliant offer, but will have too when I get home tonight.
Rock-shaped rock has a similar ring to pie-flavored pie.
*PIE FLAVOUR*
@@VeryRGOTI *guitar riffs*
I love these videos so so much. Thank you for making them, I have seen almost every single scishow and they keep me so consistently fascinated and enamored with our universe. Great work team!
Has SciShow ever done a video on the Chicxulub seiche waves? Basically when the impact struck it was so powerful that all the way from the Yucatán it shook North Dakota. Like slamming a door so hard it makes waves in a bathtub. Except with glass rain.
A group of people once saw a man crawling on the floor before jumping in joy and freaking out, they probably never knew what had actually happened
Great video. Keep up the amazing work. ❤❤❤
Technically, bones ARE rocks when they start out, we just don't usually consider them so. See Dentin; Hydroxyapatite.
Hank is back!
You can tell how excited Hank was to say “Widmanstätten”
Sci show needs to make a video on how fish eggs can survive bird digestion and spawn in new locations
Damn, had no idea my country had the location with the most meteorite fossils. Great.
Cool episode
I got stuck on the GOLD content, I need to understand this part of your statement more. Researching.......💻
"Cooling iron exceptionally slowly in the core of an ancient planet" sounds badass
Fascinating topic!
Great video
1:36 Oh boy! I’m The Rock! Awesome!
1:30 "you are a rock now" there's Shrek joke here somewhere but i'm too sleepy to sus it out.
I found a fossil on a job site a couple weeks ago. I walked over it a few times and the small bumps sticking out, which I have assumed to be vertebrae, caught my attention. Looks to be some type of small boney fish with long fins. It's a round rock about and inch diameter. Has me looking in the rocks on jobs now searching for more
Fun fact! Fossil rock fragments from space are a lot more common than you think, but you'll need a microscope to find them because they're dust sized!
Fossil "micrometeorites" are cosmic dust particles that also get preserved in sediment - the best place to find them is in chalk because their black colour contrasts the white "background" calcite grains. There's also a lot of unanswered interesting questions about them and it's the topic of my PhD and masters :D
Would that make this a sea-bedtime story 😅
Thank you
This man was born to speak for science. HANK
At least your chances of finding a meteorite are greater than getting hit by one.
Limestone is some pretty cool stuff. You can find marine fossils and impressions all over here in Ohio. I've found some very cool fossil clams myself, and quite a few rocks from quarries with very distinct impressions.
Thank you!
So does this mean you could have fossils of earth rocks? If so, I imagine they would be pretty common. Weather or geology moves rocks from one place to another, and the rocks get their structures remineralized by whatever's around them. Or is there something special about these iron space rocks that allows them to fossilize better?
Technically yes we do get "fossils" of Earth rocks its just we call them metamorphic rocks instead of fossils. Specifically mineral replacement metamorphism is the type analogous to what happens with fossil meteorites and bones respectively.
There are other types of metamorphism which involve much more active and dynamic processes like mountain building volcanism and or subduction with high pressure and or temperature conditions, but these tend to involve the recrystallization of the original source rock/material which tends to destroy fossils.
2.8 mm is super small. How did they locate that?
I wondered the same thing. The slices of the core samples must have been really thin and then lots of graduate students toiled away for countless hours laboriously scanning the samples with microscopes. Just a guess.
Very very cool! Had no idea. Chemistry+time: "Hello rock, you are now a different rock."
How did mineralisation turn a meteorite to gold tho? That is some alchemy type shiz
I know there's trace amounts of gold in seawater, so it's possible the mineral/metal makeup of the fossil meteorite encouraged the gold in seawater to deposit on the meteorite?
I'm no expert on that subject, but my limited knowledge points towards that being the most likely theory within my own head.
@@retrauk That certainly would make a lot more sense than alchemy. Thanks!
Come here to sweden, please do!
im sorry im laughing when be said "congratulations you are now a rock" lol
Fossilized meteorite is basically (rock)².
I will go with you!
Does this mean that the meat grape would count as a fossil since we removed most of the grape cells and replaced them with meat cells? Hank pls help
"One of us, one of us"
I have seen a small spark of meteorite falling feet feet away while I was looking up in the sky .... God knows where that spark went ..
Gg to Thorsburg for having exactly the name everybody would expect from a Swedish town.
finally its hank!!!!
"It was a fossil of a rock"
Me: *what*
But it was from space!
Me: *Even more confused*
, that is. Cool
Heard the voice and was like " bro is this hank???" Yes. Yes it is
The cancer-man himself. 👍
I can neither confirm nor deny that the GLOMAR vessel was actually hunting for sunken russian submarines.
What about Fossil watches?
Jet Lag needs to take every train in sweden now
LEGO Exploriens is now vindicated.
The restraint it must have took to add those brackets into the title.
It amazes me to think a core of another planet is here on Earth.
it amazes me to think humans just went about our business for millennia completely unaware of that fact
Somewhere far away from our galaxy, this planets old dinosaur bones are conidered as fossils from outer space
Man you’re so funny 😂
If an astronaut throws a moon rock at earth.. is that a meteorite attack of terror.. hmm..
Hang on Hank, isn't there a hypothesis that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter used to be another planet that Mars may or may not have been a moon too? Mostly as an explanation for both the belt and the extreme scarification on one side of Mars.
Not quite, there are hypotheses about a planet V between Mars and the Asteroid belt, that could explain the late heavy bombardment. It either got ejected off the inner solar system, or crashed into Mars.
Oh, thought we had pieces of the mythical Phaethon...
how did they even find it. 2.5mm is rather small
meteorite fossil sounds very much like a sci-show april fools joke
Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around!
2.5mm fosil. I bet they excavated tons of sand, what made this single spec matter
Hey, Hank. How has this career of yours, changed your wardrobe? This question is actually for all of the content creators on screen. I'm curious.
Cool
Im on time
I wanna go to Sweden too!!!🤓😉
All rocks on this planet comes from space, the entire planet is located in space.
Video….Video good…me like video.
I knew getter-energy was a real thing
Amazing
never knew Meteors could Fossilize
Huh, Intersting title.
more like clickbait
Since earth has been enlarged by millions of years of meteorites, how is it even possible to distinguish any part of earth as having come from a meteorite? Why are substances only found in meteorites not already part of earth's makeup?
stuff that forms due to natural processes on a meteor could not occur under the conditions on earth, basically.
Quiche.
Piano!
So they finally found the dinonauts, I guess before watching the video.
It's the symbiotes
How do we know what iron in the core of an ancient planet looks like?
the same as iron anywhere else bud
@@jwlsiee if they were the case what would the significance of the statement be? He would just say it looks like any old iron not specifically "iron found in the core of ancient planets".
the surface pattern
Space Godzilla
Für the first time in my eons long existence
I was petrified
Morkite!
Technically everything comes from space and is in space.
He said "it could be a meteorite". So theyre not sure
A rock shaped rock
Im sorry, but niche rhymes with quiche not ditch.
Niches get fishes!
Ngl me over here laughing at not needing calc to understand a part of stats
A fossil existing as a fossil? Interesting. 🤔
Thank goodness things turn into rocks or we wouldn't know anything