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U.S. East Coast Bombarded By ... What?
gmr2048 writes: "Our local Fox affiliate is reporting a compact-car size metior may have hit north central PA Monday evening. CNN story here. Too bad I missed it :("
The loyal fjordboy writes: "At about 6:30 EST this evening, many meteors broke apart and headed south coming from Canada. I was able to witness the meteor flying overhead in Trout Run, PA and it was spectacular. There was an incredible bright flash and then a meteor with an incredible tail. A few minutes after it had left, a sound shook the ground and buildings in the vicinity. It even set off some car alarms in the parking lot." Anyone else out there see this in person?
I hereby propose a change from the standard unit of energy to be, instead of the Joule, the Fatman.. one unit of which is the kinetic energy of a 5'6" foot tall fat man "falling down." There of course will have to be experimentation to determine this contest, but I am sure that there will be no problem finding candidates in the Slashdot audience.
I'll be publishing a paper on this called "Joule and the Fatman."
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ meteor_eastcoast_010723.html
I think this is an article with pictures about the meteor hitting a car trunk http://www.nyrockman.com/meteorite/car/peeks.htm
No, actually it punched through the rear end of the car (entered through the top, went through the trunk and spare tire, tore a hole in the chasis, and put a pit in the concrete) and was embedded in the poor lady's driveway. She was scared out of her wits and filed a police report. The first stupid cop on the scene said something like, "It's vandalism. Looks like someone threw a rock through this lady's car." No, I'm not kidding. Luckily for her, some collector bought the car as a souvenir. Neat story actually. Saw it on one of those "Three Minutes to Impact" sort of shows on the Discovery Channel.
I saw it also. I was driving on 490 in Rochester, NY, when I saw a yellow-orange streak to the south about 10-15 degrees above the horizon. I dismissed the sighting as a very strange reflection or my imagination because I saw it out of the corner of my eye and couldn't be sure what I saw. But now I know what it was... cool.
Lucky it was only a compact car and not your usual Yank SUV or there wouldn't be much of Pennsylvania left....
Sonic booms were heard up to 100 miles from the meteor's path ... would have been traveling between 100 mph and 200 mph.
Wow. Anything that can travel less than 200 mph and still make sonic booms is worth a headline.
Where do they get these reporters? Slashdot?
Hmm...small, seemingly innocent meteors striking our planet. Too small for we humans to detect or be concerned about (if you think a 10 meter object is 'small').
Isn't this how the Gamilons put the Smack Down on Earth in "Star Blazers"?!? Small meteors that we didn't pay attention to at first, until their radiation began killing us off?!?
Sound the alarms!!!
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Prepare to fire...the Waaaave Motion Gun!!!
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Got a link to the story of that extremely lucky flight attendant? I'd like to see something that indicates this is more than urban legend.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
Basically, No.
Try not to think of it as a Shield. What Bush is proposing is not even remotely comprehensive defense from large numbers of missles. It is meant as a point defense against less than 5 launches.
Futher, the missle defense systems are most likely to target the boost phase of the missle launch. We're supposed to be sitting near by the bad-missile-launching-country at see in military vessles carrying boost-phase anti-missle wepons.
The kind of defenses envisioned in Bush's VERY LIMITED anti-missle system would have no applicability to anti-meteor defense. Basically, unless we get a few years advanced warning about metor impact, we're screwed big time.
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Witnesses said the object appeared to be traveling from southeast to northwest, "which means it was heading inland," Baalke said. fjordboy
At about 6:30 EST this evening, many meteors broke apart and headed south coming from Canada. Someone's confused.
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I bet it was the Russians, trying to avenge what you people did to Dmitry Skylarov...
You'd better thank whatever you believe in that their weapons arsenal had a decade to rot since Soviet times.
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More likely it to show that the windows were up.
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Did you read the article? It says it could have been as small as a baseball... or as large as 10 meters across. No, a car-sized meteor wouldn't have necessarily caused any major damage.
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Energy is proportional to mass. Mass goes by the cube of the linear dimensions. Thus, a 10-meter meteor is 3*3*3 = 27 times less massive than a 30-meter meteor.
Where the heck did your statement about pollution come from? Volcanoes emit lots of pollutions because the toss inredible amounts of crap into the atmosphere. Where would a 10-meter meteor get all the crap? Even if it lands and makes a small crater, dirt just isn't that harmful in the air.
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I'm still looking for that crashed alien ship with a big green lantern inside...
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I've also read the flight attendant story - it was on a Russian or Eastern European airline IIRC. The plane broke up, the stewardess was forced into and held in the tail section by either air pressure or the G forces, and apparently the tail section's intact control surfaces were enough to slow it for a survivable landing.
Of course, I can't remember where I saw the story. I don't think it was online.
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Hmmm, I must have missed that issue :)
Considering the shapes of some of the other members in the Green Lantern Corps, familiarity with alternate sexualities might have been pretty helpful, though...
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strangely apropos...
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Ease down. He was making fun of reporters. We can all agree that we get to make fun of reporters. : )
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he said it impacted at 100-200mph, as "the atmosphere slows it quite a bit". so it was going considerably faster at some point, thus the sonic boom.
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From the article:
"We originally got a report of a plane crash and now it seems there were multiple meteors coming down," said Tara Dolzani, a supervisor at the Schuylkill County communications center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Have you EVER heard a more transparent cover up? Clearly, this is only the first stage of the invasion, so we better start preparing now! Call your neighbors, let everyone know! Head for the hills!
ok, i'll bite. what kind of enemy is envisioned here? what documents are you citing with these claims?
the assumption that backed proliferation was that of mutually assured destruction: rubble bouncing and whatnot. if this plan for a limited missile defense is meant to protect against so few weapons, the enemy it would seem to assume is either one with extremely limited means (in which case involvement in a shooting war with the US would all but guarantee their own demise) or a failure of will (same as above).
are these supposed enemies (the rogue states much ballyhooed) extant? are we to guard against every possible attack, no matter how ludicrous, unlikely, or illogical? i know we're not supposed to underestimate anyone who overestimates themselves, but there's a difference between overestimation and taking first-strike initiative against the US; if once you take that first shot, all you have left is your dick in your hand.
again, what documentation are you citing? i'd be interested to read it, if only to see how it could possibly contextualize or reify the need for such a limited and specific defense against what would seem to be an attack about as likely to appear as Brigadoon.
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Regardless of the fact that the difficulty of destroying a sufficiently large meteor would be on par with killing all the cockroaches in Chicago with a spatula, missile defense in any incarnation is as practical as trying to stop traffic on the internet by targetting routers. Sure, you could hit a lot of them, in both cases, but the way the systems are structured, something will get through. Modern weapons have such high yields that one bomb, a one-percent margin of error, could result in 20 to 30 million deaths, depending on the weapon's objective. Two little things called redundancy and mutually-assured destruction. You don't have to take my word for it. You can go to the guy who [might have] built the thing. "Go back to bed America, your government is in control" -- George Bush pre
strange things are afoot at the Circle K...
Of course, there's the obligatory "you'll never be hit by a meteorite" statement too... Let me tell you, if this meteor were to hit you, you should do two things. Buy a lottery ticket. Win a million billion dollars if you survive. Impacts of objects that size will leave very large craters and very dark, dark skies. Humans tend not to survive, but strange things have happened..."
Actually, this particular strange thing happens more often then one might expect: Here is a NASA page listing *three* 20th century meteor strikes on US homes, one of which actually hit the occupant, a Mrs. Hodges of Alabama, in the hip, producing one heck of a bruise. Maybe astronomical odds aren't really so astronomical after all...
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did the person who submitted this actually read the article? It said the metior was probably about the size of a baseball...not a CAR. A CAR would have taken out a good chunk of PA...
no, the person who submitted it said "compact-car size metior may have hit north central PA." As in, it was the size of a car when it hit. NOT. Couldn't have been, that area of PA would be gone now. As the article actually states, it was most likely as small as a baseball.
I remember something similar about a tail gunner in a Lancaster bomber during dubya-dubya two.
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CNN Washington Bureau Chief Frank Sesno was traveling in Pennsylvania and reported hearing "what sounded like a tremendous sonic boom" through the closed windows of his air conditioned 2001 Chevy(TM) Impala. Frank was also snacking on some Snackums(TM) brand Trail Mix at the time, and washing it back with some Lipton(TM) "Brisk" Iced Tea. Afterwards, Frank made a stop at the nearest Texaco(TM) to "leak the lizard", in his own words.
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I saw one, I was sitting on a stoop at 307 N 3rd in Philadelphia waiting for someone just looking around at buildings and the sky and to the NW this big fireball zoomed by; looked to be about a mile away - no sound. I hoped it was a meteor, but thought it might be a small plane or a burning fuel dump from a larger plane. It got pretty low so some of them may have hit. Real quick, just like a shooting star where if your looking the wrong place or blink you'd miss it.
In this day and age, I think the market could bear a "compact" car of this size. The only problem is trunk space! :)
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Yet another NASA miscalculation?
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CNN Washington Bureau Chief Frank Sesno was traveling in Pennsylvania and reported hearing "what sounded like a tremendous sonic boom" through the closed windows of his air-conditioned car.
I know this is/was supposed to be funny, but the air conditioning was a relevant detail: the boom was loud enough that it could be heard through closed windows, and over the hum of air conditioning.
This means that it was a loud boom, for those still not paying attention.
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As opposed to a boom not loud enough to be heard through closed windows, over the hum of air conditioning.
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It was a dark and stormy night. CNN Eashington Bureau Chief Frank (call sign "Cool Man") Sesno was driving in his luxurious freshly washed and waxed air conditioned Chevrolet, with aplomb and supreme confidence and competence in his ability to control the intricate machinery, only a distant soothing exhaust burble and the softly playing jazz on the transistor radio to disturb the spellbinding silence of the awesome night, in Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, birthplace of frontiersman Daniel Boone, John Barrymore, brother of Lionel, who played the evil Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life" (but also the beloved Captain in "Captains Courageous"), comedian Bill Cosby, and renowned actor James Stewart, state bird Ruffed Grouse, state flower Mountain Laurel, state motto "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence", home of the 76ers, Phillies, Flyers, Penguins, Pirates, and Steelers, 2nd state to ratify the US Constitution, admitted to statehood 12 December 1787, when the strangest event of his not uneventful life suddenly and unexpectedly occurred.
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The local NBC station WGAL had coverage on the news tonight (linkage) and had a deep interview with people who fell over and the all important interview with people who talked to the person who owned the farm who didn't see anywhere where something landed and scortched his corn. And my favorite is the group of witnesses "watching deer."
Aren't we early for the Delta Aquarids they aren't expected for a few more days...
Wheeeee
It's a good thing they don't leave out any details that might turn out to be important...
It's 11pm, do you know what your deamons are up to?
Penny Arcade's been hit?!
This all depends on the composition and size of the bolide. It could burn up or shatter before shedding enough velocity to just free-fall to a soft landing.
Objects large and/or dense enough will meet the ground before friction sheds enough velocity to permit the trajectory to end in a soft landing. These objects produce a crater, and the bolide is vaporized along with a piece of real estate.
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So that's where I parked the Pinto...! Man, my insurance company is going to kill me...
Your assumption of our assumption is incorrect.
We assume anyone living in between the two regions is a bum hick yokel or a soccer mom.
The incorrectness of your assumption is the key to the existance of our assumption, so I would assume that further assumptions on your part will be of equally questionable accuracy, assuming of course, the assumption is made with the same kind of genuis the first one was. Our assumption stands, yours sits in a heap in the corner of the room frayed and withered from my elitest northeastern attitude.
I'd never heard of the flight attendant, but I guess its possible if assuming, it glided into the ground, burning a signifigant portion of its energy in friction/lateral movement, and the tail crumpled into a piece large enough for a human to assume the fetal position or kiss their own ass
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Having grown up in the Pottsville, PA area, I can attest that the locals are "hick yokels", but where do YOU live? Nothing irritates me more than the assumption of northeasterners and west coast residents that anyone living in between those two regions is a 'bum hick yokel'. Get off your elitist trip.
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At about 6:30 EST this evening, many meteors broke apart and headed south coming from Canada.
My sources have informed me that our air strike was supposed to go unnoticed.
We'll have to try again before the Toxic Texan® brings his defense-shield into service...
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just wondering when cnn developed such a witty sense of humour? that onomatopoeia's killing me man!
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"small as a baseball"
at what point? It could have started out the size of a truck and burned up to a small core piece or 5.
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I don't see anything in the article about a "compact-car sized meteor" as the submitter suggests. It seems that once again Slashdot has posted unconfirmed, unreliable information. Meteors strike the earth all the time (mostly falling in the ocean unobserved). This is nothing to report.
"They're also NOT red hot, glowing or smoking - they often feel cool to the touch immediately after impact. (The reasons are left as an exercise for the reader ;)"
That's true!
It is thought that the reason for this is the outer shell of the meteorite is heated very quickly and blown away ("ablated") as soon as molten material forms on the surface. The trip through earths atmosphere is very short and when it finally impacts the ground it retains most of it's original cryogenic temperature it naturally had in the cold vacuum of space.
My guess is the core temperature would not be as cold as the ~3K CMBE of deep space because it would have to be in our solar system in order to impact earth in the first place(obviously)and the albedo of the average meteorite is not perfect (1.0), so each meteorite must reach a fairly cold equilibrium temperature based on the ratio of solar energy absorbance on the sun facing side to thermal emission on it's cold side.
Sometimes when meteorites are found immediately after falling, they are covered in frost!
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This proves once and for all that Slashdot does attract literate people.
Of course, some leading physicists might label this phenomenon strange attractors and have their grad students prepare doctoral theses on it...
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President G.W. Bush announced a plan for the new "Meteor Wars" meteoroid defense plan, which would help protect Americans from malicious extra-terrestrial projectiles.
"Although America does not cover a large portion of the Earth's surface, it is largest in its heart, and that is what we must protect" said the President last Monday, ignoring protestors yielding placards bearing the slogan "Outer space is mother nature too, let meteors live"
The current design involves launching a pre-emptive nuclear missile into the upper atmosphere, detonating near the meteor and deflecting its path toward nations such as Canada or France.
Colin Powell remarked about the new plan, "We feel we can obtain up to 95% accuracy in detonating these missiles above ground. The environmental consequences of the nuclear material will be minimal, as most detonations should talk place above Montana or North Dakota."
Don't forget that most of residents of the Northeast US and the West Coast as well are also "bum hick yokels". Deluded, elitist bum hick yokels who think they aren't but I ask you, would anyone who isn't a "bum hick yokel" actually watch Survivor? QED.
So would the m1 ¦Oe shield have protected us?
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Baalke said the possible size of the meteor "depends on the composition of the meteor and the speed it was traveling. It could have been as small as a baseball " and would have been traveling between 100 mph and 200 mph.
..It would be tough to hit if it was 'as small as a baseball.. Of course it *could* have been as big as a compact car, but then again it *could* have been made of swiss cheese..
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I am definitely from one of those "smaller towns" in PA. Trout Run is technically a village (by population) CNN is now running another story about the whole deal. Tis located here . About 15 or so staff members at Camp Susque (the place where I work), saw it as well. (it freaked out the girls campers. :) I was lucky enough to witness the flash travelling for about 5 seconds. It left an incredible tail, even in broad daylight (the sun was still above the mountains and incredibly bright at the time...it was QUITE bright out right then) and was absolutely huge. Almost everyone else thought that it was only a hundred feet up in the air because of its size (which is ridiculous because it flew over some nearby mountains).
About 4 minutes or so later. I have heard sonic booms before, when I was hiking and the area got buzzed by some kind of jet, and this was nothing like that. The initial sound was like a massive explosion, and it reverberated down the valley for a good ten seconds or so. It was headed northwest, but appearently a chunk of it hit about 15 miles from Trout Run in Northern Williamsport. The reports say that it scorched a cornfield, but there was no impact or craters. The local radio station claims to have many pictures of some actual impact sites from wellsboro, but I have been all over their site ( wksb.com and I haven't found anything. If anyone has any pictures, please reply.
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It left the car intact? Color me confused.
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"At about 6:30 EST this evening, many meteors broke apart and headed south coming from Canada" That's it then: Blame Canada!
Was it that a giant (1 km I think) asteroid passed between the earth and the moon and astronomers noticed it after it had passed? Scary.
And then there's the CIA thinking a foreign country had detonated some nukes a few years ago, but it ends up they were just meteors/comets which had entered the atmosphere and did what they do best... vaporize and create one hell of a shockwave.
Of course, there's the obligatory "you'll never be hit by a meteorite" statement too... remember, that friction is quite powerful. And incoming objects start heating up way past the "atmosphere" as most (uneducated) people know it. By the time incoming objects hit the dense atmosphere (still well above the surface) they get frickin' hot and vaporize.
So for a meteor to actually hit you, it would have to be so large that it didn't vaporize completely. Let me tell you, if this meteor were to hit you, you should do two things. Buy a lottery ticket. Win a million billion dollars if you survive. Impacts of objects that size will leave very large craters and very dark, dark skies. Humans tend not to survive, but strange things have happened (like that flight attendant to fell 40,000 feet in the tail end of a plane and survived).
Seriously, though, something the size of a car is going to make a nice show of lights and such, but you'd better hope it vaporizes very, very high in the atmosphere.
It's a good thing, too. If this were just reports by bum hick yokels in central Pennsylvania, I never would have believed it happened. Thank God CNN is here to give us the truth.
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Last line of space.com story:
``We have no idea what it was, whether it was a meteor or what,'' said National Weather Service spokesman Curtis Carey.
a) How many tax-dollars does this outfit cost a year? a) This guy is a SPOKESMAN?!? Fear what the actual geeks must sound like.
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Light on any impact details, but here it is from the boys who know:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsyste m/ meteor_eastcoast_010723.html
Why is it that the only thing Americans hear about Canada is the weather?
"Cold front from Canada"
"Southernly winds from Canada"
"Snow from Canada"
and now
"Southward meteors from Canada"
Just you watch. Next you'll be blaming us for continental drift.
Not sure about the CIA indicate a few years back, but IIRC there was a story in the NY Times about how in March or April of this year, a meteorite exploded over the south Pacific with approximately the force of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Good thing it vaporized over the ocean and not over some major metro area...
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...A few really big versions of these space droids out there to protect us from what is statistically sure to come...
While they are waiting to do their main job, they can just clean the Hubble or something...
Just a thought...
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What catches me is that the article states that a meteor shower wasn't predicted. Tonight I sat out watching the stars and in a half an hour's time, I saw about 20 meteors. Now that seems like a lot of meteors for a night without a predicted shower. Also, I am kinda close to the sighting mentioned, just a little to the west in Wisconsin, USA.
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Damn, I live in Buffalo, and this is the first I have heard of this. Outside? Whats that?
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I saw it as I was travelling north near Dover, DE. It glowed for over 3 seconds which means it had to be bigger than "baseball" sized.
That at anytime we could have a big one hit us...And we have no defence against it. Apart from maybe warning us fairly early that times are about to get *very* hard...
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The way they make trailers these days, it'd have to be hollywood size to get them away from a nascar race on the toob.
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If something the size of a baseball could make a sonic boom after going only 100 or 200 MPH, I'm sure going to the ballgame would be a lot more fun.
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I wonder if they meant to says something more along the lines of 1,000 to 2,000 MPH...then there'd be a boom. Ya know, the size of basketballs or volkswagens.
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I saw the brief flash, tho i did not hear any sonic booms, would say it was between 6:15 and 6:30, and i was in malvern pa, which is outside of philly....very neat sight....
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"At about 6:30 EST this evening, many meteors broke apart and headed south coming from Canada."
Just another example on why we need tighter controls on our Canadian border. Keep the meteors in Canada, where they belong!
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a 27.3-pound meteorite was discovered in the trunk of a car. I'm always discovering things in my trunk too.
For the last few years the only thing seperating Canada from a radiated hole in the ground has been constant reruns of kids in the hall. You're on very thin ice.
What's the word on what actually hit? Were there multiple small meteors, or a single large one? Did whatever it is burn up in the atmosphere? And why is the CNN article so whacked out?
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How did they ever find out? Did the Russians track it and notify us?
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This has to be the funniest slashdot post I've seen in a VERY long time. I've been laughing hard for the last three minutes.
Mad props to you DarkEdgeX for making one damn funny post.
Now watch the moderators ignore it.
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My friends and I were having a spectacular battle when I decided to launch a meteor strike as the Lunar Corporation against one of them. The attack never came where I targeted... Spooky.
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How could it be a meteorite if it burned up in the atmosphere?
Too bad I missed it :(
Hey, just be happy it missed you
what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
What does it mean for a meteor to be compact-car size if it never landed on the ground?
This sounds insanely wrong to me. I dont think any unpowered object travelling 100 - 200 mph could possibly fly across Canada and land in Pennsylvania.
Have you ever heard of meteroids travelling at such rediculously low speeds? No chance of sonic booms.
The huge crater in Arizona, for example, was thought to be made by a 85 foot diameter chunk of iron travelling 45,000 miles per hour.
The East Coast has been hit by a Ford Meteor compact car?
:)
Astronomers on local television stations said the object was probably a meteorite that burned up in the atmosphere.
Those TV astronomers are always on the ball. Cletus the slack-jawed yokel could have figured that out.
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looks like the drunk i saw earlier was right when he talked about the end of the world comming...
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I was dead asleep and woke up to the sound of what I thought was a gas explosion, or the international space station landing on my Tempo. Anyway it was loud and it was real. I'm in Troy PA, where things like this make ppl think the sky is falling. It was cool though.
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