Heads up! Meteorites Falling Fast

[Furtherman]

First off, imagine seeing this:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0310/fireball_burnett.jpg

Read all about it here:
Fireball over South Wales (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/)

This is the third meteorite I've read about this past week. Yes, these happen everyday, but two of them have hit populated areas, dangerously close and injuring people. Check it out, and interesting read.

Meteorite strikes Indian village (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/28/india.meteorite/)

Meteorite strikes New Orleans (http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1064812149293560.xml)

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The sky is falling!!!

The sky is falling!!!

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This message was edited by Bill From Yorktown on 10-1-03 @ 7:48 PM

[Heavy]

wouldnt the earth blow up if that hit?

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[monsterone]

i bet it burns up in the atmosphere to the size of a chihuahua's head.

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[Mike Teacher]

wouldnt the earth blow up if that hit?


No, but it could cause a Very large BOOM.

We know something with enormous power expoded over Tunguska, in asia, very early in the last century, cant remember the date. 1908 springs to mind.

Anyway for miles around [this was forest] the trees were flattened out radially away from the central point of impact, or under where it exploded.

Theory: Either a Comet or a Meteor. The atmosphere usually does horrific damage to these before they ever hit the ground, hence exploding just from the friction energy of the air. Thats why we see the shooting stars, theyre just tiny bits of rock that burn up when they hit earths air at fantastic speed.

In Arizona, you can go see Meteor Crater. This sucker is something like 3/4 miles across, I think. Eugene Showmaker figured out it was definately an impact crater from something stony. Not sure the size of the rock that would produce that.

And then, of course, the Big One. Not really, but it's the one described in Jurassic Park, and the beginning sequence of Armageddon; the one that caused what is called the Creatceous-Tertiary Extinction, 65 Million years ago. The K-T Event.
Wiped out the vast majority of animal life, mostly due to climatic catastrophe. Some say it was an impact at the Yucatan Peninsula.

Oh, and not to be a whinge, but Meteorites arent Falling Fast. Meteorites are Meteors that have survived the impact with the earth. It's meteors falling fast.

Unless you wing a meteor out of a plane; i guess it becomes a meteorite again...

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[Furtherman]

Tunguska Event (http://www.galisteo.com/scripts/tngscript/default.prl)

Whinge!

I love reading about Tunguska. One of the great mysteries.

[East Side Dave]

i liked that game metroid where you could change guns and become a ball, and sometimes you could get red and white mushrooms to be bigger and other times there were secret locations to get pennies. metroids rule!

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[Furtherman]

More!

Did meteorite slam Oakland? (http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0308/12/c01-242704.htm)

Small Meteorite Apparently Lands In Mount Vernon (http://www.komotv.com/stories/26636.htm)

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[Furtherman]

Schoolboy survives direct hit by meteorite travelling at 30,000mph (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192503/Close-encounter-rock-kind-Schoolboy-survives-direct-hit-meteorite-travelling-30-000mph.html)

The odds of it happening are astronomical, but not impossible, as one schoolboy found out when he was struck by a passing meteorite.

The rock flew down from space at speeds of 30,000mph, and grazed past 14-year-old Gerrit Blank as he made his way to school.

The meteorite continued on before ending its billion-year intergalactic journey on the pavement, leaving a smoking, foot-wide crater.

Gerrit was left with a scar on his hand, making him one of only a handful of people to have been struck directly by a meteorite.

[Jujubees2]

Schoolboy survives direct hit by meteorite travelling at 30,000mph (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192503/Close-encounter-rock-kind-Schoolboy-survives-direct-hit-meteorite-travelling-30-000mph.html)

I wonder if this will give him some kind of super power?

[TheMojoPin]

What a horribly written story. They seem to be saying that the pebble was going 30k MPH when it grazed him, which is basically impossible. By the time the thing would be that sized it's terminal velocity would below 100 MPH (thus no "sonic boom" as this kid is lying his ass off about). It would the equivalent of getting hit by a similar sized metal pebble dropped off a tall building. Something that small will also be cooled to air temperature by the time it hits the ground and wouldn't cause more of a "crater" than just dorpping a rock on the ground. If was going as fast as they seem to be saying he wouldn't have had time to see what he said he saw and the thing would have gone through his fucking hand.

It also says that the chances of being hit by a meteorite are on in a million. By that logic, 5,000 of the people currently living on Eearth will be hit by a meteorite in their lifetime. Yeah, they were probably using it as turn of a phrase, but still, really shittily written.

And the Germans are lying, AGAIN.

[topless_mike]

plus, with our atmosphere, there is no way that thing could have had enough "ummph" to do 30kmph.

and, if it was at 30kmph
a) it would have taken his fucking hand off
b) it would have shattered into dust when it hit the ground


by the way, how does he know that the rock he has is the exact fucking rock that did this?
if it made a 1ft crater on the pavement, thats alot of rock to be mixed in.


im calling fail on this.

[topless_mike]

What a horribly written story.

they're english, what did you expect?

[keithy_19]

Not a meteorite but still a falling space object. (http://www.space.com/12982-dead-nasa-satellite-falling-earth-sept-24.html)

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/images/sol2.jpg

Satellite of love my ass.

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[PapaBear]

Tariq Malik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranknet)

[cougarjake13]

Not a meteorite but still a falling space object. (http://www.space.com/12982-dead-nasa-satellite-falling-earth-sept-24.html)

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/images/sol2.jpg



looks like a giant space dildo with testicles on both sides

[Chigworthy]

looks like a giant space dildo with testicles on both sides

Your dildos must look really weird.

[cougarjake13]

Your dildos must look really weird.

i was born with 2 assholes

[hanso]

NASA's huge UARS Earth observation satellite will plunge to Earth.The six-ton craft, the size of a bus has 'flipped' in space - and may now strike 'anywhere', including the USA.

Chance it can hit someone 1-3.2K
www.space.com/12982-dead-nasa-satellite-falling-earth-sept-24.html
It is made of latex and will mold into the shape of a dildo. Yeeeess!

[hanso]

NASA's huge UARS Earth observation satellite is a meteorite? Sorry I didn't know.

[PapaBear]

NASA's huge UARS Earth observation satellite is a meteorite? Sorry I didn't know.
No, it's not. But it was already brought up in this thread. And it's really a non issue. It's not worth a new thread. Oh, wow... A bus is going to fall into the ocean somewhere!

[keithy_19]

No, it's not. But it was already brought up in this thread. And it's really a non issue. It's not worth a new thread. Oh, wow... A bus is going to fall into the ocean somewhere!

:bye:

[Chigworthy]

So where'd it land? I hope no middle to upper class white people were harmed, which I'm assuming is true because on the radio in the middle of the night they said it came down but did not say where.

[cougarjake13]

So where'd it land? I hope no middle to upper class white people were harmed, which I'm assuming is true because on the radio in the middle of the night they said it came down but did not say where.

last i heard was near finland or russia

[hanso]

I heard it fell in Canada.

[disneyspy]

I heard it fell in Canada.

internet rumor,NASA says it fell in the pacific http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sign+that+debris+from+falling+satellite+landed+Alt a/5454240/story.html

[Snoogans]

So where'd it land? I hope no middle to upper class white people were harmed, which I'm assuming is true because on the radio in the middle of the night they said it came down but did not say where.

it probably landed in Camden NJ and no one noticed. Right now some 11 year old is probably sittin on it, sellin rocks

[Furtherman]

Explosion in Argentina following a “ball of fire from the sky” (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/26/explosion-in-argentina-following-a-ball-of-fire-from-the-sky/)

A deadly explosion and fire occurred in Argentina overnight, reportedly killing one woman and injuring several others. Two homes, a store, and several vehicles were destroyed or damaged.

The thing is, while it’s not clear what caused this incident, several people said they saw a ball of fire descend from the sky when it happened.

Neighbors’ accounts describe a ball of fire coming from the sky as the cause of the explosion. The chief of the firefighters, Guillermo Pérez, however, said the "causes remain unknown" and that "gas containers were found intact," ruling out a gas related incident.

Too early to tell as of yet...

[Furtherman]

Meteorite Hits Paris Home (http://www.newser.com/story/130669/meteorite-hits-paris-home.html)

The Comettes were on vacation when their home was hit by a meteorite. The egg-sized space rock stayed buried in the insulation of the French family's home in suburban Paris until they called somebody in to fix their leaking roof, the Telegraph reports. "We got the roof tiler round and he was astounded," said Martine Comette. "He said: 'You need to be Superman to break a tile like that! It must be a meteorite.'"

The meteorite has been identified as a 4.5 billion-year-old piece of chondrite from the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

That's right... a meteorite hit the house where The Comettes live. That happened.

[CountryBob]

Meteorite Hits Paris Home (http://www.newser.com/story/130669/meteorite-hits-paris-home.html)



That's right... a meteorite hit the house where The Comettes live. That happened.

Oh the irony!:clap:

[brettmojo]

Meteorite Hits Paris Home (http://www.newser.com/story/130669/meteorite-hits-paris-home.html)



That's right... a meteorite hit the house where The Comettes live. That happened.
That's just the baby...

Wait 'til the momma' arrives.

[keithy_19]

Meteorite Hits Paris Home (http://www.newser.com/story/130669/meteorite-hits-paris-home.html)



That's right... a meteorite hit the house where The Comettes live. That happened.

I believe in God and I think he's a trickster.