Colombia: 'Giant fireball' was a meteorite -- Monday, 06 September 2010 07:56 Kirsten Begg -- Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fireball" that fell from the sky in the Santander department, central Colombia, was a meteorite. The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday. Andina.com reported that Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed that the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter when it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander. Colombian air force helicopters were commissioned to fly over the area to try to locate the source of the explosion. The director of the University of Nariño's Astronomic Observatory, Alberto Quijano, told RCN Radio Sunday that he believed the object was a meteorite. In rural areas of Santander, police received reports that the explosion had shattered windows in the area.
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09/07/2010 10:37:06 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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3 posted on
09/07/2010 10:40:19 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
4 posted on
09/07/2010 10:41:17 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: SunkenCiv; Western Phil
7 posted on
09/07/2010 10:47:23 PM PDT by
txhurl
To: SunkenCiv
8 posted on
09/07/2010 10:48:05 PM PDT by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: SunkenCiv
The article says, on the one hand, that there is a 100 meter impact crater, and on the other hand, that it has not been located. So I think we must reserve judgment.
10 posted on
09/07/2010 11:01:19 PM PDT by
dr_lew
To: SunkenCiv
300 ft. would be roughly minivan size.
11 posted on
09/07/2010 11:01:39 PM PDT by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: SunkenCiv
12 posted on
09/07/2010 11:02:02 PM PDT by
dragnet2
To: SunkenCiv
Just not lucky, I guess....
13 posted on
09/07/2010 11:09:49 PM PDT by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: SunkenCiv
Did it hit the United States? No? Then it really is not news for the United States.
To: SunkenCiv
Not 300 feet.
17 posted on
09/07/2010 11:33:10 PM PDT by
PeaceBeWithYou
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To: SunkenCiv
Wow! This is amazing.
Lucky it did not hit anyone.
18 posted on
09/07/2010 11:37:36 PM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
If I were looking up into the blue sky on a beautiful day and saw something like that, I’d promptly need a change of clothes. We owe a big thanks to those that had the very cool opportunity/presence of mind to grab pics of this event.
Just imagine how impressively bright that thing had to be to break through the daytime sky with light like that. I could only imagine what it would have looked like at night. Probably would have lit up the skies bright enough to easily read by!
Amazing!
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09/07/2010 11:55:20 PM PDT by
KoRn
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To: SunkenCiv
Juan Valdez said his burro was mucho scared and thinks the crater looks very odd. Juan agrees.
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09/08/2010 12:50:38 AM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: SunkenCiv
a 1,000 strong search team was tasked with finding the impact area and so far have been unable to locate it... Such a colossal event, so little media coverage. Around 3:10PM Sunday afternoon residents of Colombia were awestruck when the clear sky was cracked open by a massive fireball that exploded upon impact leaving a 300 foot wide crater and a lot of rattled nerves. Huh?
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09/08/2010 3:31:03 AM PDT by
alnick
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To: SunkenCiv
1,000 strong search team was tasked with finding the impact area and so far have been unable to locate it... Such a colossal event, so little media coverage. Around 3:10PM Sunday afternoon residents of Colombia were awestruck when the clear sky was cracked open by a massive fireball that exploded upon impact leaving a 300 foot wide crater and a lot of rattled nerves.
They can't locate the impact site but they know it left a 300 ft. wide crater?
28 posted on
09/08/2010 6:05:19 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
To: SunkenCiv
Our doom is at hand, the asteroid will have the dreaded zombiepocalypse virus in it.
No where in the world will be safe. Zombies everywhere!
Sadly once this happens not much will change in Washington D.C.
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09/08/2010 6:09:57 AM PDT by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: SunkenCiv
If they can’t find the impact area, how do they know there is a 300 ft crater?
31 posted on
09/08/2010 6:37:18 AM PDT by
listenhillary
(A 50% cut of federal spending would be a good place to start.)
To: SunkenCiv
IF they can’t find the impact site, how do they know it left a 100-foot crater?
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