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Teh One Who Knocks
03-18-2019, 10:56 AM
By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News


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If a massive meteor explodes above Earth and there are no iPhones to capture it on video, did it really happen?

Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer for NASA, told the BBC on Sunday that an historic asteroid exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in December that had 10 times the energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A meteor that size swings by two or three times every 100 years.

NASA was reportedly alerted about the Dec. 18 blast over the Bering Sea by the U.S. Air Force. Despite its vast emptiness off Russia, the route is frequented by airlines.

The BBC reported that the asteroid measured several meters and had the impact energy of 173 kilotons. It exploded about 15 miles above the Earth’s surface. The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had the energy of about 15 kilotons.

lost in melb.
03-18-2019, 11:33 AM
Who knows...

Hal-9000
03-18-2019, 05:57 PM
Consider this..

We don't have telescopes or eyes on every point that surrounds the Earth. And the telescopes we do have only can see so far.

Scientist in Cali said a large meteor can travel at speeds of 25,000 to 160,000 mph as it approaches our atmosphere.

Same guy says if a large enough meteor approaches the Earth, it won't be like the movies where we devise a plan to shoot it down. Either we won't see it in time and/or we don't have missiles that can hit an object descending from space that fast.

And as my old friend Carl Sagan said, it's just sheer luck we haven't been hit by a large object from space yet.

:) sleep well

Teh One Who Knocks
03-18-2019, 06:06 PM
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Hal-9000
03-18-2019, 06:12 PM
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Talk to the original mastodon from that meme :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
03-18-2019, 06:26 PM
Talk to the original mastodon from that meme :lol:

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