[DJlaysitup]

My guess is “not”...but I’m new at this.

[NonValueAdded]

Nah, it wasn’t a meteorite, it was Øbama’s approval rating that cratered.

(as posted by another FReeper on an earlier thread that I am too lazy to look up.)

[Texas Eagle]

The Nicaragua Crater: The Result of a Meteorite Impact or Not?

How could they not know? Haven't they found the pieces?

[El Cid]

It would be a shame if a "meteorite" fell on a certain place in Mecca.
I understand that some "meteorites" often can expel a mushroom cloud of dust if they fall just right...

[marron]

“Since the explosion in Nicaragua occurred a full 13 hours before the close passage of asteroid 2014 RC, these two events are unrelated.”

Perhaps I am exposing my ignorance when I say that his reasoning is not, to me, self-evident. I would tend to think the opposite, that more than one rock was traveling in the same trajectory as 2014 RC and that they are related. Maybe rocks travel in clusters.

[NormsRevenge]

Errant cruise missile?

Hugo burped from the depths of Hell?

Sh*t haPPens.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29106843

(picture at link)

It doesn’t look like an asteroid impact crater to me. It does look a bit like an artillery shell hit. I would think that the dead trees on the edge would be burned and there would be evidence of a blast.

[minnesota_bound]

That was the spot that Jamie from MythBusters landed on.