A meteor appears to have struck the erupting Mayon volcano. This occurred on May 25th with a bright green flash of light, indicating an unusual composition for a meteor. However, to me it appears that the meteor did not actually strike the volcano, as it was a perspective trick of sorts, actually burning up in the sky more than 100 kilometers away. Today's video discusses this fireball, why it was green, and gives a guess as to the composition of the meteor that burned up. Personally, I think that the entire meteor burned up over the ocean, leaving no fragments to be found. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Frame grab from a video by afarTV, Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/afartv, Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRntP5h3AqI, Used with Permission A special thanks to afarTV for granting me permission to use one of their video clips! It is linked below: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRntP5h3AqI Subscribe to afarTV at: https://www.youtube.com/afartv Estimates on asteroid diameter based on its burnup/disintegration height in this video were sourced using the calculator at https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/ImpactEffects/, which was used with permission. Mayon currently has an active 6 kilometer exclusion zone in all directions surrounding its summit which must be avoided! If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] Phivolcs [2] Collins, Gareth & Lynch, Elliot & McAdam, Ronan & Davison, Thomas. (2017). A numerical assessment of simple airblast models of impact airbursts. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 52. 10.1111/maps.12873., CC BY 4.0 0:00 Meteor Near Mayon 1:11 Meteor Burn Colors 2:27 Meteor Composition 3:25 Fireball Rarity