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I gotta tell ya, I’m more than a little skeptical about the whole ‘intercepted by missiles’ part of the story. I’ll happily admit I was wrong if it turns out to be true but I seriously doubt it happened that way. Not that I don’t think it could be done but I just find it suspect that there were missile batteries online and ready to fire instantaneously at an incoming meteor with no warning.
I don’t trust “news” sources that don’t know the difference between a meteoroid, a meteor, and a meteorite.
An acquaintance of our family had a meteor strike their CAR this past week....busted a window.
I seriously doubt that as meteors travel much faster than missiles.
Dispite early reporting, the meteorite was not intercepted by any aircraft or missiles. It simply burned up in the atmosphere.
Witches and monkeys....
If there actually was a bombardment like this with a near earth asteroid passing by today, it will be big news worldwide, regardless of the truth of any claims that it was destroyed by a missile.
Couldn’t they just redirect it? I have a target list...
WOW, you have GOT to watch those videos, that is amazing!
The sunlight effect as it flew by?? I never guessed that, it was brighter than the sun when it was heating up!
WOW, you have GOT to watch those videos, that is amazing!
The sunlight effect as it flew by?? I never guessed that, it was brighter than the sun when it was heating up!
WOW, you have GOT to watch those videos, that is amazing!
The sunlight effect as it flew by?? I never guessed that, it was brighter than the sun when it was heating up!
these things move way too fast for an intercept - though dont be surprised if in the coming weeks we find that te object was photographed / filmed by a geo stationary sattelite
If they can show film of thunderstoms and sprites from space, they have this on film
They used LASERS
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Watching the video from the vehicle dashcam...
There is NOOOO earthly defense mechanism available when this badboy is tracking inbound...
Jus' say'n...
Those videos are incredible, if true (I don’t doubt RR, just the rooskies).
I was listening to NPR this morning. They said this was “not relatedd” to the meteor coming close to the earth today. Let me get this straight: I’m 59 years old. No meteor of this size has hit the earth within my lifetime. And the day a huge meteor is passing between the earth and our geosynchronous satellites and I am LITERALLY looking for any news about it actually hitting the earth, a large meteor (allbeit smaller) collides with the earth, doing significant damage, limited only by location, and it is NOT RELATED to the big one?
When I became a Christian in 1981 I stopped believing in coincidences. And rightly so.
NPR really is lunacy.
Somebody call Harry Stamper on the white courtesy phone please.
5.56mm
I luv “unconfirmed sources” for major points of a story.
Russian sir defenses are currently at some version of the S-300PMU3 / S-400 Triumf / SA-21 Growler systems. According to a 5-6 year out-of-date article, they could intercept missiles moving at mach 14. or 4.9km/s.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/s-400.htm
From the article: “Their exceptionally high accuracy is ensured by the missile's main secret, the so-called transverse control engine, which rules out misses during the final approach trajectory. The transverse control engine is still without parallel in the world.”
“The radar's range is up to 600 km for targets flying between 40-75,000 m, 400 km for targets at 20,000 m, 300 km for targets at 10,000 m, and at least 65 km for targets flying at 500 m.”
So if the report turns out to be correct, we could assume that more than one missile was fired; more likely missiles from each category were launched to insure a hit.
Russian almost always shoot first and ask question later.
I do not doubt that they launched, whether the missiles hit or not is another question. But it should have been possible, since meteors do not have counter measures.