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"
"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.
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Eat at Joe's.
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...
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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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.
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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.
Eat at Joe's.
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."
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.