[SunkenCiv]

Visualization of the trajectory and impact of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Germany Jan. 21, 2024.

Image credit: European Space Agency

[moovova]

The local Muslim "Newcomers" probably thought the Mahdi had finally arrived...Alahu Akbar!

[logi_cal869]

No, no, no, no, NO!

Increase mass, reduce velocity, set for lower latitude to adjust trajectory for impact 2800 miles west right on the coastline of Martha’s Vineyard.

Nice cover with the science angle, albeit a bit corny (re ‘spin’).

/s

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Rotating at the dizzying speed of once every 2.6 seconds. More like a knucleball. Everything’s relative.

[Does so]

31,000 mph (50,000 km/h)

So...what is figure in “feet per second”?

[Sirius Lee]

If one asteroid wants to hit another an impart spin, then, I mean, who are we to stop them? And really, from their POV, isn’t it really we who are spinning? Bot of compassion, folks. Is that too much to ask?

[metmom]

And there’s no video surveillance footage of this explosion? No dashcams or home security systems?

[dfwgator]

Russia 2013 Meteor Strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrdSwhQhY0

[Mastador1]

Fastest ever seen in recorded history, not necessarily fastest ever seen.

[M Kehoe]

DUCK!!!

5.56mm