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To: BIV

“Looks like just one meteor that exploded in the atmosphere”

I don’t think it exploded or hit the ground — it looks like it entered the atmosphere and left it again — in an almost straight line. I’ll bet it was big, too. Perhaps ten meters in diameter.

A few miles closer, and it would have exploded or impacted.


9 posted on 02/15/2013 1:04:22 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Well, meteors can certainly skip off the atmosphere back into space, but the brilliance of the flash suggests to me that the meteor did explode and that its remnants, i.e., meteorites, hit the ground causing property damage, e.g., at the Peoples Zinc Factory.
Of course, I am in Georgia (USA) so I don’t know.
Latest report is over 500 minor injuries, four critical.


12 posted on 02/15/2013 1:16:25 AM PST by BIV (typical white person)
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To: Born to Conserve
I don’t think it exploded or hit the ground — it looks like it entered the atmosphere and left it again — in an almost straight line. I’ll bet it was big, too. Perhaps ten meters in diameter.

Then you didn't see the correct video, there are several out there. I saw one that showed the meteor comming down, you could actually see the meteor for a few seconds on the video and it wasn't headed back out into space, besides it was way to close for that type of action. Not only that there is a picture of the zinc(I think that is what it is)plant with a huge hole in its roof where part of the meteor hit it.

36 posted on 02/15/2013 3:57:59 AM PST by calex59
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