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Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Mon 06 Oct 2008, 21:35:49

"Fireball" expected to be visible over much of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

That's just plain weird.

The CNN report on the asteroid
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby Ludi » Mon 06 Oct 2008, 21:37:00

Cool!

My husband said "What, it isn't going to hit Sarah Palin on the head? And they'd blame it on the gays..."
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby Tanada » Mon 06 Oct 2008, 21:56:07

Dang it all, why can't it happen where I can see it?

All that aside a 3 meter rock is pretty significant, wish we knew before hand what it is made of. If it is nickle-iron they might find a good size chunk on the ground tomorrow early morning. Iron has a reasonable heat capacity and has a tendency to hold together where an icy or carbonaceous chondrite asteroid would tear apart from aerodynamic forces. Rocky bodies are sort of unpredictible, some of them are amalgamations that fall apart easily while others are solid masses that melt and ablate like the nickle-iron ones do.
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Mon 06 Oct 2008, 22:08:24

Hey, Ludi, congrats on the new title!
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 00:29:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', '[')url=http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/30528359.html]"Fireball" expected to be visible over much of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East[/url]

That's just plain weird.

The CNN report on the asteroid


Its the rapid increase in Entropy. Its sucking in the meteors.

Might not have to worry about the Nukes OR the Methane. Big Freaking Asteroid. The Great Bomb that God Built. LOL.

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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby hubbertspeak7777777 » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 01:10:14

Too bad it isn't 1000000x bigger.
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby kpeavey » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 01:41:25

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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 01:52:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'T')oo bad it isn't 1000000x bigger.


Doesn't need to be near that big. Probably about 10,000x would be sufficient, around 20-30 miles in diameter. BIG KABOOM!

TPTB probably know its coming. If you have a good telescope, you might want to try backtracking the trajectory of this asteroid. Maybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.

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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby hubbertspeak7777777 » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 04:14:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'T')oo bad it isn't 1000000x bigger.


Doesn't need to be near that big. Probably about 10,000x would be sufficient, around 20-30 miles in diameter. BIG KABOOM!

TPTB probably know its coming. If you have a good telescope, you might want to try backtracking the trajectory of this asteroid. Maybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.

See You on the Other Side.

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I don't think we're that lucky. But one can only hope.
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby Cabrone » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 04:28:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y husband said "What, it isn't going to hit Sarah Palin on the head?


If it did I wouldn't fancy the asteroid's chances.
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 04:39:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'T')oo bad it isn't 1000000x bigger.


Doesn't need to be near that big. Probably about 10,000x would be sufficient, around 20-30 miles in diameter. BIG KABOOM!

TPTB probably know its coming. If you have a good telescope, you might want to try backtracking the trajectory of this asteroid. Maybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.

See You on the Other Side.

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I don't think we're that lucky. But one can only hope.


Not to be outrageous in conspiracy theories, did I not read in the MSM in the last month or so that the Hubble Telescope went down? Is that not rather odd that this window to the Universe picked exactly this time to fail?

Forget looking up on Wall Street for the Falling Stockbrokers. If you have a telescope, I think you might want to keep a watch going on this one.

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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby alokin » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 05:31:48

didn't the event had happened yet??
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby RSFB » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 05:38:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('alokin', 'd')idn't the event had happened yet??


Supposedly, yes. There is no confirmation or pictures yet AFAIK. It's supposed to have happened over Sudan, so it's quite possible no one took any pictures.
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby TheDude » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 05:38:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'N')ot to be outrageous in conspiracy theories, did I not read in the MSM in the last month or so that the Hubble Telescope went down? Is that not rather odd that this window to the Universe picked exactly this time to fail?


And there's another quake in Tibet, too. Image

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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 05:42:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RSFB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('alokin', 'd')idn't the event had happened yet??


Supposedly, yes. There is no confirmation or pictures yet AFAIK. It's supposed to have happened over Sudan, so it's quite possible no one took any pictures.


NOBODY in the Sudan has a Camera? With a decent size hunk of rock hitting the atmosphere, NOBODY takes a picture? No planes up there shooitng pics? What?

Why do I have trouble believing that?

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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby coyote » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 06:08:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'M')aybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.

See You on the Other Side.

Literally. Call me crazy - but won't we be, um, on the other side of the solar system in six months? :roll:
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby Devin » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 06:30:08

lol the earth moves?! and here I thought we were the center of the universe!
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby the48thronin » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 06:38:02

It wasn't an astroid after all, it was the NEW BOSS sent to clean up the mess the last one made in his hidden machinations. The herd was almost big enough to send the harvest ship and now they are all running around losing weight and being nervous!
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby Tanada » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 07:20:05

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut as astronomers had predicted, it burned up before it could hit the ground or endanger aircraft.
The asteroid created a large fireball at about 2.46am GMT, the team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
Astronomers warning of the impending impact had been keen to underline the fact that the strike would not be dangerous.
'We want to stress that this object is not a threat,' Dr Timothy Spahr, director of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre at Harvard, said earlier.


Sadly no pictures yet, I sure hope somebody got some decent views as it came in! I know dang well that someone with a camera had to be in a good spot, I just hope the rest of us get to see what they saw.
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Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight

Unread postby RSFB » Tue 07 Oct 2008, 08:59:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')NOBODY in the Sudan has a Camera? With a decent size hunk of rock hitting the atmosphere, NOBODY takes a picture? No planes up there shooitng pics? What?

Why do I have trouble believing that?

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Have you ever seen a shooting star?

From what I read, the meteor would be a quick fireball in the sky lasting perhaps for 2 or 3 seconds. It was not known exactly where in the sky it would appear. It's not easy to catch something like that on film.
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