Object the a size of a “mini-van” entered the atmosphere yesterday.
Too bad it didn’t hit a Iranian nuclear facility
“also known as a bolide roughly the size of a washing machine”
I know exactly what happened!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_jLpd-_gdY
(action begins at 50 seconds.)
This morning I saw coverage that tracked the event based on the locations of 911 calls.
Due east from the SF bay area. South along the Nevada side of the Sierras. Due west to the Greater Los Angeles area.
Two sharp turns in a “meteor” track.
Nothing like this has been observed since 1908...
The values used this story, kg and km/s, are all in metric system. The asteroid burned up in the United States; the experts, at UNVR and NASA, are employed in U.S. government jobs; the journalists work for an American company; that company transmits its story over American taxpayer-owned frequencies or over the American taxpayer-owned electric-system grid by cable-systems.
If we don’t want our American way to disappear, then let’s force all these American government agencies and American companies to speak American: inches, feet, yards, miles; pint, quart, gallon; ounce, pound, ton.
I live in Placerville and I had just gotten up and heard it. Ran out back and was looking to the east and the sound was like a space shuttle launch or a jet flying low... I thought to myself, ok this is it. I had no clue what it was. I am glad to have found out the cause. Still scary.
Whoever locates the debris field is going to make a few bucks.