Posted on 02/23/2013 10:16:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: A meteoroid fell to Earth on February 15, streaking some 20 to 30 kilometers above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia at 9:20am local time. Initially traveling at about 20 kilometers per second, its explosive deceleration after impact with the lower atmosphere created a flash brighter than the Sun. This picture of the brilliant bolide (and others of its persistent trail) was captured by photographer Marat Ametvaleev, surprised during his morning sunrise session creating panoramic images of the nearby frosty landscape. An estimated 500 kilotons of energy was released by the explosion of the 17 meter wide space rock with a mass of 7,000 to 10,000 tons. Actually expected to occur on average once every 100 years, the magnitude of the Chelyabinsk event is the largest known since the Tunguska impact in 1908.
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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?
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?
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
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...
Thanks nti.
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