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Just saw a rock fall across the sky
02/19/10
| Vanity
Posted on 02/19/2010 7:37:59 PM PST by P.O.E.
I've seen meteors before, but this was a rock falling. It was not ablaze like a meteor entering the atmosphere. It was headed east across Pennsylvania. It was perhaps a mile or so above me. From my vantage point it appeared at least a few meters across (judging from the distance). Guessing it would fall into the Atlantic.
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; pennsylvania
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:37:59 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: P.O.E.
So it begins:
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:39:26 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: P.O.E.
Correction: It was headed north by northwest.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:41:12 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Giant Gila Monster)
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:41:17 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: P.O.E.
Did it make a sonic boom?
How could you discern the altitude and size?
It should have landed by now. Did it reach the Atlantic? Or did it destroy Philadelphia in the last several minutes?
Where are YOU????
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:42:08 PM PST
by
Arthur McGowan
(In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:42:20 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: Arthur McGowan
I will have him Ping you..........:*)
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:42:52 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:43:11 PM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: P.O.E.
Well, two meters at two kilometers subtends .001 radians, about a tenth the apparent diameter of the moon. But so does twenty meters at twenty kilometers, so how could you judge the distance? Appearances can be deceiving!
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:44:13 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: P.O.E.
How can you tell it was a mile up? How did you know how big the rock was? Maybe some kid next door was throwing rocks in the air.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:44:52 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:46:12 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: P.O.E.
Awwwww, you can’t do this NOW. I was just heading to bed.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:46:16 PM PST
by
FourPeas
([F]or hostility is a relation and an enemy is not a total stranger. C.S. Lewis, Perelandra)
To: Arthur McGowan
I’m in NE PA. It went by pretty fast (naturally). I’m just going my impression. I figure a mile up? (I can see flights headed toward ABE, and this appeared to be around the same height). Of course, it might have been smaller & closer. If it was larger, I’m sure we’d have heard about it by now....
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:46:25 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Giant Gila Monster)
To: P.O.E.
To: freedumb2003
Oh crap!
Time to get the guns out.
"Ok chillin', you load and Daddy be shootin'."
"Them darned aliens is back again!
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:47:01 PM PST
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
To: P.O.E.
a rock a mile up would be too small to see
if it came from space it would be on fire
You saw a UFO!!!!
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:48:36 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
To: P.O.E.
It was probably BO/BS taking out AF-1 for a sight seeing flight.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:49:00 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: P.O.E.
Sorry,:.:.:.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:49:19 PM PST
by
Cyber Ninja
(His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
To: P.O.E.
Is there a host covering the sun?
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:49:22 PM PST
by
brewcrew
To: brewcrew
LOL. Pretty scary, I was thinking the same thing.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:50:26 PM PST
by
FourPeas
([F]or hostility is a relation and an enemy is not a total stranger. C.S. Lewis, Perelandra)
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