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Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries
A wire report from AFP says that an explosion heard in Managua last night, and a 40-foot crater evident today, are evidence that the city was the impact site for a small meteorite that struck Saturday night. The photos are not very exciting at a glance, which is a good thing, considering that a dirt crater and no injuries is probably the best outcome if a meteorite strikes the city where you live. From the article: The meteorite appeared to have hurtled into a wooded area near the airport around midnight Saturday, its thunderous impact felt across the capital.
The hit was so large that it registered on the instruments Strauss’ organization uses to size up earthquakes.
“You can see two waves: first, a small seismic wave when the meteorite hit Earth, and then another stronger one, which is the impact of the sound,” he said.
Government officials and experts visited the impact site on Sunday.
One of them, William Martínez, said it was not yet clear if the meteorite burned up completely or if it had been blasted into the soil.
“You can see mirror-like spots on the sides of the crater from where the meteorite power-scraped the walls,” Martínez said.
(The same news, in slightly shorter form, from the AP.)
Global warming AND Bush did this.
The Jurassic period. O2 in atmosphere was 130% modern levels. CO2 was at 1950ppm, 5-7 times modern levels. The temperature was a whole 3 DEGREES C over modern times! Oh noes! The Jurassic DGW, Dinsaurogenic Global Warming, shows that those Dinosaurs with their Airplanes, SUV, Coal Fire Plants and Cars and stuff, you know, those Dinosaurs and their DGW destroyed THE WHOLE PLANET!! With their DGW! Look, who wants 26% atmospheric oxygen? More air to breathe? Who wants that! And who wants more CO2 @1950 ppm, you know, to make all those plants and trees convert that CO2 into a higher O2! Who wants that! And we DON'T want the massive biodiversity of the Jurassic, no, we don't want more plants and animals and trees, no.
Any time period the warmunists want to "prove" thre is AGW the warmunists just cherry pick ranges. And now I give the warmunists what the need on a silver platter - now they have the perfect example - the Dinosaurs and their horrible DGW ( Disnosauric Global Warming ) that destroyed the Jurassic... Wait, no, it didn't, it was the best time for life on earth with 1950 ppm atmospheric CO2!
The last time something like this happened in Central or South America (I forget exactly where and am too lazy to google it) there were toxic gasses released from the soil. IIRC, they determined it wasn't the meteorite that had toxins; but that the impact churned up naturally occurring arsenic or something.
Any relation to the asteroid that got well up into our pearthonal space earlier today?
Sure, but the Carbon MON-oxide is the real problem. That's what all the chemtrails are spewing.
a meth lab.
You could go unnoticed in such a place. Or maybe not.
Like college age kids, meteors seem to always travel in packs. The Chelyabinsk one was said not to be related to 2012Da/367943 Duende, but it sure is a hell of a coincidence that close flying meteors have an "unrelated friend" that impacts the Earth.
Maybe we got the ugly friend?
why y'all be hatin?
To your 3D printers! We must defend the species from the Extinction Asteroid!
It's a good thing it didn't hit the US. If I've learned nothing else from Hollywood, I've learned this... If any object strikes another object moving faster than about 20 feet per second, there will be a huge explosion.
Except for the very very rare incidents which are strictly for comedic value.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Wilfried Strauch, an adviser to the Institute of Territorial Studies, said it was "very strange that no one reported a streak of light. We have to ask if anyone has a photo or something."
Local residents reported hearing a loud boom Saturday night, but said they didn't see anything strange in the sky.
"I was sitting on my porch and I saw nothing, then all of a sudden I heard a large blast. We thought it was a bomb because we felt an expansive wave," Jorge Santamaria told The Associated Press.
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Managua was hit by a meteoroid. If anyone saw the bright light of its fall to earth, they saw a meteor. If any part of it survived, that's meteorite. Thank you.
Have gnu, will travel.
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"Foot" ?
Again? Seriously?? When will this braindead imperial insanity EVER stop???
If that's a meteor crater, where's the ejecta? It must have excavated ~200 m3 of dirt, which seems to have simply disappeared. None of the plants surrounding it show any evidence of violent impact, "shockwave", or explosion as reported. Maybe there is actually a crater somewhere, but this is just a photo of some sort of sinkhole?
Do dinosaurs taste like chicken?
They ought to. Recent research has shown that chickens are the closest living relative of T. Rex.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
... are Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in holiday in Nicaragua?
I'm interested in why there's a guy in body armor, a helmet and with a mine-detector in one of the photos.
The mine detector makes sense, if they think there could be some metal in the meteorite.
It could be that the army is the only one with metal detectors close, but why'd he be wearing armor and a helmet?
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Let's go Voltron!
No meteorite fragments, no fireball.
Various parties hid weapons caches in Nicaragua during the '80-ies. They have exploded before, e.g. In Managua in 1993:
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Arms-Cache-Explosion-Case-Closed-With-Convictions/id-ac87fc8aa836ea44b803cc2af04a99e6
Just saying.....
Please explain to your effing media connections that it is an effing meteor unitl it effing stops...then, it's an effing meteorite... Can these so called effing reporters not learn any effing thing???
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