Posted on 08/06/2018 5:55:49 PM PDT by Signalman
A meteor hit Earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force in July, but the Air Force has made no mention of the event.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size traveling at 15.1 miles per second (54,360 miles per hour) struck the ground in Greenland, just 27 miles north of Thule Air Base, on July 25. The base is mainly used to detect missile launches.
Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists Hans Kristensen tweeted about the impact, but the US Air Force has not reported the event.
Kristensen argues it’s concerning that there was no public warning from the government about the incident.
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E=1/2mv^2
It is all really very simple. The Air Force probably never even detected it.
Want to worry about something seriously to worry about?— a repeat of the Chicxulub comet/asteroid. A Comet/Asteroid which struck the Earth 66 million years ago, whose crater has been identified along the Yucatan Peninsula. The comet/asteroid was 9 miles in diameter and the impact is confirmed to coincide exactly with the Cretacous-Palogene Extinction event (which featured most notably the immediate extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs all over the world). The evidence of the comet/asteroid impact is identified all over the world as well- for example erosion exposing the Iridium/clay layer out in the Badlands (a long way from Yucatan and the Danish Zealand Island. The crater is called the Chicxulub, The net result was extended multiyear winter everywhere— killing plants and animals. And this was only the second largest impact ever discovered to date. There’s another one that is larger!
Here’s the wiki page for the Crater:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
And here’s the one for the Cretaceous Palogene event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event
So a 2.1 kT impact is no big deal, and neither was the 440 kT one that hit Russia in Feb. 2013. The Chicxulub meteor hit with a force calculated at 100 trillion tons of TNT-ie. beyond our comprehension.
A map of the biggest impacts as far as is known— and enjoy worrying. LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Earth
Didn’t the Chinese say they planned to bring some to Earth ?
That is pretty good size.
So, what is that in feet per second?
;)
Is the earth under meteoric bombardment?
“They don’t want the Russians to know they weren’t watching. Seems a more likely scenario than some others.”
How is that likely?? There were not less than a dozen sensors watching that one come in.
Nice headline. A 2 kiloton rock would destroy most of the planet.
A 2.1 kiloton explosion would not make much of a dent.
There is a BIG difference.
As it is with things like these impacts there by the time they can figure out an area of impact there is no time to warn anybody, and the Air Force does not have the ability to just interrupt local TV and radio broadcasts to even give a warning.
The ‘yield’ was about 8.3 terajoules.
So, now you can solve for M in the eqution
E=M v2
8.3 terajoules = ? x 233 (sq root of the listed MPH).
This is one of those ‘convert meters per second to furlongs per fortnight’.
No Way....That’s the antarctic, when Anubis tried to invade earth.
That was years ago. :D
Actually, I thought we had closed Thule.
Maybe, under the circumstances, the government of Greenland calls the shots on press releases. They are the host country.
#16. I’m sorry that Helen Thomas scarred you for life, as she did so many other people.
Did you know that she was offered the monster role in the original “The Thing” but they decided that she was both too short and to ugly to cast? They were afraid of theater patrons having heart attacks and suing the studio.
She, did, however, under another name, star as the whale in “Moby Dick” and the later horror film, “It’s Alive”.
Watch the skies!
Klendathu could not be reached for comment before publication of this story.
As an air base and weather station - research and refuel station it is still used. Not a DEW LINE radar and regional DEW line command center any more.
(Han)Kristensen argues it’s concerning that there was no public warning from the government about the incident.
At 15 miles per second just how much of a warning could they give?
... and then there are the Carolina Bays ... the end of the Ice Age and the beginning of the Younger Dryas ...
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