Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Chelyabinsk Meteor Flash

NASA ^ | February 23, 2013 | (see photo credit)

[Maringa]

This meteor was somewhat horizontal to the earth plane....I wonder what would have happened if it was vertical...would it have been able to make it to the ground?

[Maringa]

This meteor was somewhat horizontal to the earth plane....I wonder what would have happened if it was vertical...would it have been able to make it to the ground?

[SunkenCiv]

That’s the one, 1931; didn’t know about the iridium layer for Tunguska, and it’s a nice detail, I’m going to grab your post text.

Sodom and Gomorrah was probably something besides impact, because in addition to the possible description of a fireball, the entire landscape was altered sometime between their disappearance (or rather, after the tribes departed for Egypt) and the return of the Hebrew tribes. The Jordan River formerly flowed in the Valley of Siddim (the OT explicitly states that what is now the Salt Sea was the Valley of Siddim in the time of Abraham), going north, then bent toward the Med, flowing down the Jezreel. It is now divided by a 600m ridgeline.

http://www.varchive.org/itb/overthrow.htm
http://www.varchive.org/itb/deadsea.htm
http://www.varchive.org/itb/rift.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Space begins at 100km altitude / 62 miles. Roughing it out, I’d say, maybe — a steeper course through the atmosphere might still lead to disintegration, but the transit through the atmosphere took mere seconds, so...

[SunkenCiv]

Some from APoD:

• 2011 October 02: Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event
• 2007 November 14: Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event

Chicxulub:

• 2000 February 26: Impact: 65 Million Years Ago
• October 12 1997: Impact! 65 Million Years Ago
• June 04 1996: Impact! 65 Million Years Ago

Barringer crater:

• 2009 August 11: Inside Barringer Meteor Crater
• 2007 June 23: 3D Barringer Meteorite Crater
• July 11 1999: Barringer Crater on Earth
• November 17 1997: Barringer Crater on Earth

other craters:

• June 10 1999: Mjølnir: Impact Crater
• 2005 January 01: Manicouagan Impact Crater
• 2000 December 13: Manicouagan Impact Crater on Earth

[no-to-illegals]

My apology gleeaikin. Do you mind if I LOL at your post of now you've done it? Thanks gleeaikin! It is nice to start a morning with a LOL.

[no-to-illegals]

btw gleeaikin, was most forgetful in not Thanking you for your continued presence.

[no-to-illegals]

I missed the prayer thread, earlier, regarding your brother. My apology.

[no-to-illegals]

and as the Spirit uses. My compliments to you, SunkenCiv, you will never be bested ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBsnopTVmo&feature=endscreen&NR=1

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nti.