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Pieces of ‘fireball’ meteor that exploded over Mississippi are being found, NASA says
NOLA.com ^ | 2 May 2022 | MARK PRICE

Posted on 05/03/2022 7:07:46 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Meteorites are not ‘flaming rocks of doom,' NASA says

The “bright fireball” was traveling at 35,000 mph when it exploded at 8:03 a.m. with the “energy equivalent of 3 tons of TNT,” according to NASA Meteor Watch, the agency's project that tracks fireball activity.

“Existing law states that any meteorites belong to the owner of the property on which they fell; out of respect for the privacy of those in the area, we will not disclose the locations of these finds,”

And finding anything of value is likely harder than you think.

“The pieces from this object were way too small to leave a crater. Unlike what you see in the movies, meteorites are not ‘flaming rocks of doom’ that blast holes in the ground. In fact, you can pick one up right after it hits ground. So no smoking rocks in small craters.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; meteor; meteorite; meteors; mississippi; science
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To: Chode; Tax-chick; ArGee; Darksheare; Dead Corpse; null and void; no-to-illegals; HKMk23; moose07; ..
W00t! and I hope all the wonderful UT dads have had an equally wonderful Father's Day!

Sweet dreams, y'all....

1,701 posted on 06/19/2022 7:11:43 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: Silentgypsy
Sure did... Hot today, almost 1000F here... But I still spent most of the day working on my boat.

Good day. :-)

1,702 posted on 06/19/2022 10:25:04 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Chode

W00t!

I hope your day was great, Chode! ;o]


1,703 posted on 06/20/2022 12:22:34 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Silentgypsy

Hiya, SG! I hope you had a good day!

Take care of you!


1,704 posted on 06/20/2022 12:23:39 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Dead Corpse

Sounds like the perfect day!

Golly. Where could you use a boat in MN? *snort*


1,705 posted on 06/20/2022 12:24:43 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Tax-chick

I hope your day goes better than expected!


1,706 posted on 06/20/2022 12:54:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Monkey Face

Lake?


1,707 posted on 06/20/2022 2:21:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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1,708 posted on 06/20/2022 2:22:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Tax-chick

Yeah...”The land of 10,000 lakes!” I’m sure there isn’t that many but there are an awful lot of them.


1,709 posted on 06/20/2022 4:42:44 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Tax-chick

Sweet little kitteh!

Sorry. I took a nap and now I need to go hang up the clothes. I was just exhausted.

I hope your day at camp is a good one. :o]


1,710 posted on 06/20/2022 4:44:38 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Monkey Face

There’s actually quite a few more than 10,000.


1,711 posted on 06/20/2022 4:44:45 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto

That doesn’t surprise me at all! I know there are an awful lot of them because I’ve seen quite a few. It may explain why it’s so cold there in the winter. Nothing between MN and Canada but a barbed wire fence. (Or as we say out west — “bob war” fence.)


1,712 posted on 06/20/2022 4:57:03 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Monkey Face; null and void; HKMk23; Allegra; ArGee; Tax-chick

Good Monday Morning!

Hoping that all had a nice weekend and are having a nice start to the new week...

Another lucky second row has set me up with a good start to the Wordle week:

Wordle 366 3/6

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1,713 posted on 06/20/2022 5:41:08 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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Good Monday morning to all! I hope everyone is doing well.

I seem to be stuck on the five-train. 😖

Wordle 366 5/6

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1,714 posted on 06/20/2022 6:25:21 AM PDT by Allegra
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I surprised myself this morning!

Wordle 366 3/6

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1,715 posted on 06/20/2022 6:58:04 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Monkey Face; zzeeman

Way to go, both of you! 👍


1,716 posted on 06/20/2022 7:00:06 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Allegra

Thanks!

I’m very tired this morning, so I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. I’ll take it!


1,717 posted on 06/20/2022 7:11:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: zzeeman

Good job, you!


1,718 posted on 06/20/2022 7:12:06 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Allegra

Great!

I always console myself with, “At least it wasn’t X/6!” Yeah. Like that!


1,719 posted on 06/20/2022 7:13:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face (~~ Animals would never allow the dumbest of the lot to be the leader of their pack. ~~ Facebook)
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To: Allegra; Monkey Face

Thanks!


1,720 posted on 06/20/2022 9:38:22 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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