TigerNut writes "The Calgary Herald this morning reported on a meteor that was seen over three provinces last night, and is assumed to have impacted in Saskatchewan. It is estimated to have been "the size of a kitchen sink", as reported here"
Hodges meteorite. November 30, 1954, Sylacauga, Alabama. Annie Hodges was napping on her couch when an eight-pound stony meteorite crashed through her roof. It bounced off a large console radio and hit her in the arm and then the leg, leaving her badly bruised.
How's *that* for a fun one to explain to your insurance agent?
In my home town when I was little the house up the street got hit my a meteorite. Ten years eariler another house on the same street (but almost a mile away) was hit by a similarly sized meteorite. There are pictures of the second one online, and you can go see them at the Yale Peabody museum.
I wouldn't be surprised if insurance agencies specifically added meteorite clauses to their policies around there after that.
A google search for "wethersfield meteorite" turns up lots of interesting articles about them.
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Saskatoon ain't so bad. Except for the winter weather I suppose.
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You're right. Especially compared to Regina or Prince Albert... hehe
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No doubt.
I'm unforunate enough to be spending a few weekends in Regina soon.
Better than Estevan or Weyburn though I suppose.
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So you're saying that Sylacauga, Alambama isn't a dull and boring place? That's a laugh.
Kitchen sink?
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Nice thing they estimated the size to about:kitchensink, keeping in mind this news goes out to nerds like us.
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hey, at least it wasn't the size of everything but the kitchen sink. ok, so that's a bad play on an old saying. go ahead and laugh. go ahead.
You know, sometimes I type a comment, click preview, reread it, and then decide that it's really not worth posting. You got to treat that "submit" button with respect, dude.
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How do the estimate that? I saw a meteor once. Left a beautiful blue-green streak in the sky. It looked like about the size of a car, and I swear it was just over the next hill. Turned out to be about the size of a baseball, and it was a couple hundred miles away.
-- If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
"We wish it was 10 tonnes instead of 100 kilograms," said Hildebrand, who is the co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre.
Maybe I'm just a bit old-fashioned, but I prefer that the rocks that fall from the sky are as small as possible. Science is great and all, but c'mon I just bought my townhouse, I really don't want a skylight *that* badly.
> > "We wish it was 10 tonnes instead of 100 kilograms," said Hildebrand, who is the co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre. > >Maybe I'm just a bit old-fashioned, but I prefer that the rocks that fall from the sky are as small as possible. Science is great and all, but c'mon I just bought my townhouse, I really don't want a skylight *that* badly.
Maybe he was talking about the amount of hot grits required to safely capture the meteoric but ever-so-shapley form of Ms. Portman upon her impact with Saskatchewan?
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Now, now, a rock that big could make a change in elevation in a field somewhere. As a praire boy, that just freaks me out.
Actually the entire thing isn't flat and treeless, but unfortunately the Trans-Canada and other main highways all cut through the flattest and most treeless areas, so even people in the rest of Canada assume we're one big prairie.
That is not to say there isn't a lot of bloody flat prairie land around here (and a complete lack of large hills/mountains). But if you go North there are forests and lakes, and if you venture far enough away from Regina you'll find land that isn't entirely flat (even downright hilly in places).
That land south of Regina (where most pictures of Saskatchewan seem to be taken) is so amazingly flat it makes the rest of Saskatchewan seem mountainous. It takes like 5 inches of rain to flood a 50km^2 around there.
Careful, Konster. The Edison family is a dangerous one to toy with. All I did was scrawl some graffiti on the wall, and look how I ended up!
Peaceful, though.
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Just don't drink the pool water or you could grow high enough to reach your Aunt's attic. Bad meteorite water. Yuk!
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This is just the first in a string of lil' pieces of rock in a band of junk our poor defenseless planet is crossing. The stuff in this orbit is generally closer to the sun than us but now, in an event that takes place every 100000 years, we are crossing through it again. We will be harassed by lil' rocks ranging from pebbles to VW beetle sized for 3 days until we cross the path of El Diablo, the mile wide monster that will make for really exciting CNN stories for the next few weeks until the station is taken over and looted by lunatic mobs.
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Sweet.
Meteor hits endangered species
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Landing in Sasquatchewan was unfortunate because that Canadian province is home to the last remaining breeding pair of Bigfootses. Science will never know how that species of primate lived now that the meteor has sqatched them.
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Don't you mean sasquatched them?
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Actually, I believe that was no meteorite, but, rather, the Sasquatch's spaceship returning to pick them up. I heard they got tired of slumming it on Earth.
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That's kinda like that Onion article where OJ Simpson tracked down his wife's killers to New York city...the World Trade towers...on September 10th 2001
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A55M0NKEY (554964) sez: "Landing in Sasquatchewan was unfortunate because that Canadian province is home to the last remaining breeding pair of Bigfootses."
We prefer YETI-AMERICANS, you insensitive clod! And it's not my fault they won't ship Viagra out here with an address of "Tundra, Second rock on right".
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Breaking Out the Old Size Comparison Jokes
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It's the size of a kitchen sink?
(rolling eyes) How many Philadelphias is that?
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I believe it is about 17 centivbs (hundredths of a volkwagen bug). Granted my metric is not as good as it could be since I am an American.
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A Matter of Probability
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It's a matter of probability; it's the the large, boring expanses of Earth that are more likely to get meteor strikes: e.g.: Pacific Ocean, Siberia, Canada...
(Earth, after all, is "mostly harmless.";)
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It's also a matter of what one considers "boring and barren". To me that describes any large city.
-- Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
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Boring and barren to me is endless miles of yellow fields and straight road. I'll take mountains and forest any day over prairies.
One down, 978999 left to go. And once we're done we'll have a place for Quebec to go when the separate.
Re:I am from Saskatchewan
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Let them. Let them also build a great wall around Saskatchewan just in case anyone wanted to actually go there.
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Thanks guys, for the clear, albiet subdued, insults of my place of residence. Perhaps you hsould visit, or at least investigate what we have to offer. Here is a sample: http://www.cls.usask.ca/ ya awful being so "backwoods";-)
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Not to mention that the U of S is the birthplace of all space science in Canada.
...what we have to offer. Here is a sample: http://www.cls.usask.ca/
Yeah, they usually build those kinds of thing out in the boonies, where land is cheap.
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That thing doesn't exactly take a lot of land. In fact, they built it a few hundred feet away from where I was living in college.
They built it there because of the amount of scientific research that takes place at the U of S, and the fact we already had a particle accelerator on campus.
Thank god for U of S though, b/c this city (as nice as it is in the non-winter months) and province wouldn't be all that fun otherwise.
Michigan's pretty cool if you only look at the universities too. Doesn't make it any more interesting to live here.
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I agree, Campus does change the landscape here. The differences between Campus and the city, and the city and the province, are quite large. U of S always gets my nod for its perseverance and culture.
We also have one of the top employers in Canada for several years running Sasktel (Where I start work in just under two weeks!!!)
couple of funny things...
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From the article...
"It's really exciting. In the end, you hope to discover new rocks."
Who said this one? That's right, the geologist. *rolls eyes*
"We wish it was 10 tonnes instead of 100 kilograms," said Hildebrand, who is the co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre.
Ok. First of all if junk is gonna be dropping from the sky how big do you want it to be? I mean, when MY junk drops it's BIG alright, but it's hardly from out of the sky. I'm only 5'7" or so. And second - the Canadians have a Fireball Reporting Center?! Do we have one of those here in USA?
"Without a doubt, a very bright fireball was seen," he said, adding all signs are pointing to a meteor -- burning fragments of asteroids from the region between Mars and Jupiter.
Right next to Uranus!
"Because it was so widely visible and some witnesses heard a sonic boom or smelled sulphur, the possibility of a meteorite -- when pieces of a meteor actually reach Earth -- are increased, he added."
You see?! The smell of sulphur - I'm telling you look to Uranus!
"Chris Rutkowski, an unidentified flying object expert in Winnipeg, said "a good chunk of Canada saw this thing.""
How does one become an unidentified flying object expert? "The bad chunk of Canada missed the site," Chris the UFO expert (snicker) said "because they were blitzed out of their minds on Yukon Jack."
"...said Rutkowski, who was speaking on behalf of Ufology Research of Manitoba."
UFOlogy Research of Manitoba? BWAHAHAHAHA! UF-ology. Uff-Da!
Seriously, this news item has great comic... IMPACT. Someone should alert David Letterman.
If Natalie Portman hit Saskatchewan and could be located, it would be the first "meteorite fall"
Now I'm a bit puzzled here, let me try to rephrase it:
1. a meteorite fell from the sky, 2. it opens doors for something special, a socalled "meteorite fall", that can only happen now if:
- Natalie Portman comes to Saskatchewan
- AND she has to be located
wtf, did I miss something in school?
What is this "meteorite fall"? - Did they just accidently include somesort of a secret astronomer fertility/mating ritual in the article that was never meant to be known outside the astronomers world? - Are there other " fall" rituals, where Natalie Portman has to be present and located in order for it to succeed? - Can't they just download a picture or whatever from Miss Portman, I'm sure she has a busy schedule with her acting and maybe here sidejobs in making falls happen.
It just shows you don't know your cryptozoology. The simple fact is that Sasquatch are thriving in many areas and are politically active in Cascadia. If you have any questions, contact the Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs. On a related note, if you are a Cascadian Sasquatch and want to serve your country, note that the Sasquatch Militia is recruiting.
Of course, you may have been refering to the Canadian Sasquatch instead of the Cascadian Sasquatch. If so, please accept my apologies, as we all know they can indeed carry coconuts through the air.
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Local farmers have reported...
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....that a small child was found wandering around their fields who possessed great strength. The have no idea where the child could have come from.
-psy
"We wish it were ten tonnes and not 100 kilograms"
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Ummm...no, you really don't!!! Especially if it were to happen to hit in a residential area.
We wish it was 10 tonnes instead of 100 kilograms," said Hildebrand, who is the co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre.
Wasn't there a dinosaur who once said something like this?
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"ball of poop" further evidence of troll
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"ball of poop dropping out of the sky "
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This has to be the best part...
"I was watching TV when I saw this ball of poop dropping out of the sky with a tail of flames," said Ben Kleinsasser. "I watched it coming down until there it was, right in front of us.
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The opinions expressed here are not mine, but those of these dang voices in my head.
"...Now, nearer home, comes a special bulletin from Trenton, New Jersey. It is reported that at 8:50 P. M. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of Grovers Mill, New Jersey, twenty-two miles from Trenton.
The flash in the sky was visible within a radius of several hundred miles and the noise of the impact was heard as far north as Elizabeth.
We have dispatched a special mobile unit to the scene, and will have our commentator, Carl Phillips, give you a word picture of the scene as soon as he can reach there from Princeton."
(Props to Messrs HG Wells & Orson Welles)
-- ...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
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Why is it meteors always manage to strike the most boring and barren places around?
But, it's probably for the better this way...
Nice thing they estimated the size to about:kitchensink, keeping in mind this news goes out to nerds like us.
Maybe I'm just a bit old-fashioned, but I prefer that the rocks that fall from the sky are as small as possible. Science is great and all, but c'mon I just bought my townhouse, I really don't want a skylight *that* badly.
Paul Lenhart writes words!
Not so! A meteorite landed in my Auntie Edna's pool back in 1972!
This is just the first in a string of lil' pieces of rock in a band of junk our poor defenseless planet is crossing. The stuff in this orbit is generally closer to the sun than us but now, in an event that takes place every 100000 years, we are crossing through it again. We will be harassed by lil' rocks ranging from pebbles to VW beetle sized for 3 days until we cross the path of El Diablo, the mile wide monster that will make for really exciting CNN stories for the next few weeks until the station is taken over and looted by lunatic mobs.
Landing in Sasquatchewan was unfortunate because that Canadian province is home to the last remaining breeding pair of Bigfootses. Science will never know how that species of primate lived now that the meteor has sqatched them.
Eat at Joe's.
(rolling eyes) How many Philadelphias is that?
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
It's a matter of probability; it's the the large, boring expanses of Earth that are more likely to get meteor strikes: e.g.: Pacific Ocean, Siberia, Canada...
;)
(Earth, after all, is "mostly harmless."
This travesty would never have happened, if only Bruce Willis had been born Canadian...
What were you expecting?
Just a little FYI on the nicely informative post.
(I can't help but wonder what the poster wanted to do by that.)
You not only slipped a Natalie Portman in there, but you got moderated up! Well done!
This could result in a new winner of this national contest, and for once, Saskatchewan will have some reason to be proud.
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Thanks guys, for the clear, albiet subdued, insults of my place of residence. Perhaps you hsould visit, or at least investigate what we have to offer. Here is a sample: http://www.cls.usask.ca/ ya awful being so "backwoods" ;-)
From the article...
... IMPACT. Someone should alert David Letterman.
"It's really exciting. In the end, you hope to discover new rocks."
Who said this one? That's right, the geologist. *rolls eyes*
"We wish it was 10 tonnes instead of 100 kilograms," said Hildebrand, who is the co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre.
Ok. First of all if junk is gonna be dropping from the sky how big do you want it to be? I mean, when MY junk drops it's BIG alright, but it's hardly from out of the sky. I'm only 5'7" or so. And second - the Canadians have a Fireball Reporting Center?! Do we have one of those here in USA?
"Without a doubt, a very bright fireball was seen," he said, adding all signs are pointing to a meteor -- burning fragments of asteroids from the region between Mars and Jupiter.
Right next to Uranus!
"Because it was so widely visible and some witnesses heard a sonic boom or smelled sulphur, the possibility of a meteorite -- when pieces of a meteor actually reach Earth -- are increased, he added."
You see?! The smell of sulphur - I'm telling you look to Uranus!
"Chris Rutkowski, an unidentified flying object expert in Winnipeg, said "a good chunk of Canada saw this thing.""
How does one become an unidentified flying object expert? "The bad chunk of Canada missed the site," Chris the UFO expert (snicker) said "because they were blitzed out of their minds on Yukon Jack."
"...said Rutkowski, who was speaking on behalf of Ufology Research of Manitoba."
UFOlogy Research of Manitoba? BWAHAHAHAHA! UF-ology. Uff-Da!
Seriously, this news item has great comic
If Natalie Portman hit Saskatchewan and could be located, it would be the first "meteorite fall"
Now I'm a bit puzzled here, let me try to rephrase it:
1. a meteorite fell from the sky,
2. it opens doors for something special, a socalled "meteorite fall", that can only happen now if:
- Natalie Portman comes to Saskatchewan
- AND she has to be located
wtf, did I miss something in school?
What is this "meteorite fall"?
- Did they just accidently include somesort of a secret astronomer fertility/mating ritual in the article that was never meant to be known outside the astronomers world?
- Are there other " fall" rituals, where Natalie Portman has to be present and located in order for it to succeed?
- Can't they just download a picture or whatever from Miss Portman, I'm sure she has a busy schedule with her acting and maybe here sidejobs in making falls happen.
'Let's burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!'
Of course, you may have been refering to the Canadian Sasquatch instead of the Cascadian Sasquatch. If so, please accept my apologies, as we all know they can indeed carry coconuts through the air.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
....that a small child was found wandering around their fields who possessed great strength. The have no idea where the child could have come from.
-psy
Ummm...no, you really don't!!! Especially if it were to happen to hit in a residential area.
-psy
Wasn't there a dinosaur who once said something like this?
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
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This has to be the best part...
"I was watching TV when I saw this ball of poop dropping out of the sky with a tail of flames," said Ben Kleinsasser. "I watched it coming down until there it was, right in front of us.
The opinions expressed here are not mine, but those of these dang voices in my head.
(Props to Messrs HG Wells & Orson Welles)
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Yes, but what is that in metric Volkswagens?