Posted on 03/21/2019 6:39:04 AM PDT by CtBigPat
Had there been eyewitnesses, we'd have known about the Bering blast within minutes, but it happened beneath the cloud deck in a sparsely populated region off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula (58.6°N, 174.2°W). Military satellites designed to look for nuclear explosions picked up the blast, as did more than 16 infrasound detectors worldwide. Luckily for us, so did the Japanese Himawari 8 satellite, which took striking images of the sooty trail of dust ablated from the meteoroid during its atmospheric passage.
(Excerpt) Read more at skyandtelescope.com ...
Ping.
This caught my eye. My Russian son comes from Kamchatka. What a blast! Wonder if it killed some reindeer?
Sorry. I missed giant exploding fireball in those videos.
No prostate issues there!
LMAO!!!
A building block of Earth that’s late to the party.
Dont get any on ya!
Funny....the underappreciated blessings of excretion.
I didn’t realize there were cameras...
It’s an older video.
Or propulsion.
I’m not sure I am interpreting the velocity components correctly. (A graphic would help!) It appears to me this object came in at a moderately shallow angle relative to Earth’s surface, no?
NASA and the article refer to the energy of “impact” — I guess that “impact” refers to interaction with dense enough atmosphere to make the object blow?
Didn’t the explosion occur ABOVE the cloud deck? The altitude of the blast was apparently 25.6 km above the “reference geoid” (approx. = sea level Earth surface). The writer seems quite sloppy.
I wonder if the spectra has been analyzed to try to determine the composition of the object, or if the images give any clue as to its (pre-blast) cohesiveness? “Part of glowing meteor trail” (see the pic in the article) appears to me it is already breaking up.
Seems like an article like this deserves to have “BOOM” in the title. Heh-heh. ;-)
The Ozarks of the Missouri-Arkansas border region may have had a meteor close encounter late afternoon 19th of March. Most theories upon the ‘boom’ strong enough to shake homes on their foundations was attributed as a possible shock-wave from military aircraft activity. The problem is that the greater than 80 mile radius of the reportage footprint around Mountain Home, AR. of such a strong jolt is not consistent with an aircraft sonic boom.
The Arkansas State University Beebe Campus near Little Rock reported shattered glass. Some chatter of broken windows in homes near the Missouri border. This event is much more consistent with a diminished scale version of the Chelyabinsk, Russia meteor of 2013.
Interesting. And from almost a year ago:
Did you feel it? Massive boom heard in Ozarks and northern Arkansas
Wes Johnson,
Published 2:47 p.m. CT June 6, 2018
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/now/2018/06/06/did-you-hear-feel-massive-boom-heard-ozarks-and-northern-arkansas/678056002/
that guys feet are cold
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