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Gigantic meteor shook Earth on Thanksgiving eve, 100 years ago
CNET ^ | 11/25/2019 | Eric Mack

Posted on 11/26/2019 9:18:57 AM PST by BenLurkin

"The road, trees, houses and even ourselves were bathed in a blinding phosphorescent-like glow which had its center in a bright streak in the sky above us," highway construction superintendent Leroy Milhan of Centerville, Michigan, would recall in a paper published the following year. "It passed over us toward the west.

Immediately came a muffled report or jar that shook houses and the very earth like an earthquake." The following day, the Washington Times reported that "telegraph and telephone communications and electric lighting plants in several cities in southern Michigan and northern Indiana are out of commission" as a result of "a remarkable phenomenon believed by several scientists to have been a gigantic meteor."

The fireball was often described as blue, turning to a mix of blue, red, green, white and yellow as it fragmented and the chunks raced toward the surface.

Property damage was reported in the communities of Battle Creek, Three Oaks and Athens, where "it is said, there was an earthquake, continuing for fully three minutes, accompanied by a heavy rain and wind storm, a loud clap of thunder and a flash of light in the sky of longer duration than lightning," according to the newspaper.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; History
KEYWORDS: 1919; 191911; astronomy; athens; battlecreek; catastrophism; centerville; impact; lakemichigan; leroymilhan; meteor; meteors; michigan; science; sonicboom; threeoaks
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To: BenLurkin

This is proof that Donald Trump colluded with aliens to destroy the USA and is grounds for impeachment hearings! (especially since Russia Steel Dossier and Ukraine withholding collusion story isn’t working.


21 posted on 11/26/2019 11:40:29 AM PST by pulaskibush (Thou shalt tax/steal from Peter to help Paul/Pablo is not in the Bible!)
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To: Moonman62

Fell into Lake Michigan according to this news clip below. Visible for 50 miles.

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SN19191206.2.73&e=-———en—20—1—txt-txIN————1


22 posted on 11/26/2019 11:44:53 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Sequoyah101
"It was all those turkeys falling out of the sky."

Or a blonde office employee had a bra strap break...

23 posted on 11/26/2019 12:18:21 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Tammy8

Did that story involve Martians coming out of the meteor?
:)


24 posted on 11/26/2019 12:31:22 PM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: Sequoyah101

21. It was really a giant turkey turd.


25 posted on 11/26/2019 4:31:36 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: BenLurkin

The EMP shut down community generating stations in at least six places (according to an old news source, don’t have access right now); people ran out of their homes thinking that the world was ending; a big surge of water went up the Grand River channel in Grand Haven (see “Rain of Iron and Ice”).


26 posted on 11/27/2019 3:39:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.



27 posted on 11/27/2019 7:37:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Mercat

Is it even possible? Yes, it is.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

28 posted on 11/27/2019 7:37:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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