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"
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.
Re:Kitchen sink?
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Rick+the+Red
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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.
Meteor hits endangered species
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A55M0NKEY
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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.
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?
Re:Breaking Out the Old Size Comparison Jokes
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FroMan
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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.
-- Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
A Matter of Probability
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brownpau
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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...
Not so! A meteorite landed in my Auntie Edna's pool back in 1972!
Are you sure it wasn't the neighbor kids throwing a rock over the fence?
Mods: "If Natalie Portman hit Saskatchewan and..."
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Informative
Just a little FYI on the nicely informative post.
(I can't help but wonder what the poster wanted to do by that.)
Hot dog we have a weiner!
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Ashtray_Waterloo
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· Score: 2, Funny
This could result in a new winner of this national contest, and for once, Saskatchewan will have some reason to be proud.
I am from Saskatchewan
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QEDog
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· Score: 3, Funny
I am from Saskatchewan, and I don't see no meteor sho
[NO CARRIER]
-- "There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
Awful being ignored!!
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inorganicspice
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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";-)
Obligatory Simpson's Quote
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Radical+Rad
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· Score: 2, Funny
'Let's burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!'
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.
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.
"...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.
Slashdot Mirror
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!
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.
Not always.
Note the bit on the Hodges meteorite:
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?
May we never see th
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.
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
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."
Not so! A meteorite landed in my Auntie Edna's pool back in 1972!
Are you sure it wasn't the neighbor kids throwing a rock over the fence?
Just a little FYI on the nicely informative post.
(I can't help but wonder what the poster wanted to do by that.)
This could result in a new winner of this national contest, and for once, Saskatchewan will have some reason to be proud.
[NO CARRIER]
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
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" ;-)
'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."
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.
(Props to Messrs HG Wells & Orson Welles)
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.