Posted on 07/04/2020 6:52:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Videos of the event show a spectacular light with green and purplish hues flying across the sky for just a few seconds at around 2:30 a.m. local time, before the light fizzles out.
The impact of what was likely a small asteroid colliding with our atmosphere was picked up by a few of the infrasound monitoring stations set up around the world and overseen by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization.
The International Meteor Organization reports that the meteoroid was visible from a large part of Japan's Kanto region.
The IMO estimates the space rock could've been around 5 feet (1.6 meters) in diameter with a mass of around 1.8 tons (1.6 metric tons). For a comparison, the meteoroid that exploded over Russia in 2013 and blew out thousands of windows in the city of Chelyabinsk was likely 10 to 20 times more massive.
Fireballs are common occurrences, though one large enough to generate a sonic boom is a rarer event, especially when it passes over one of the largest cities in the world.
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There is no way they can ‘accurately’ estimate this.
Godzilla and Mothra battle!!
No sound? Or did it not make any? Or did I snafu the player?
Thanks for the video link!
They can measure the racist pandemic but, not this?
My fireworks ran off course due to a GPS error. Sorry about that.
“There is no way they can ‘accurately’ estimate this”
Yep, Millenial punk just wanting to be the first to yap out crap hoping it sticks. Douche.
If the intent is political for control, absolutely.
Dud.
Size sounds about right, Roger Moore?
I thought that was pretty impressive. And scary. A little bit bigger...that could ruin your day!
Kay:
I don’t suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?
Jay:
Aw that was on Final Jeopardy last night. Come on what did Alex say?
Kay:
Zed, we got a bug.
I was lucky enough to see a fireball over S.E. Missouri maybe 10 or 15 years ago. It went slowly from west to east and was green with bits coming off of it. It was silent. It was 100 miles up, but looked like it was maybe 1000 feet up. Many who saw it thought it was an airplane on fire and search crews were sent out to look for a downed plane.
It is phenomenal how easy life on Earth can be wiped out.
Well not easy. But the fact that one large enough asteroid can kill all life on the planet is pretty incredible
Don’t worry, Bruce Willis and his rag-tag team of misfits will save us - again.
I’m not saying it was aliens, but...
I love that movie. I know it’s crazy but I just enjoy it a lot :-)
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