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To: webheart

That’s a near miss of an extinction event.


It is too small for an extinction event. Could take out a large city, though.


32 posted on 05/16/2026 7:29:02 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: marktwain; Nateman; Red Badger; BenLurkin; Political Junkie Too; SunkenCiv

The article said this asteroid is about the size of the one that hit that Russian city a few years ago. I think it had already broken up but they did find pieces on the ground and the shock wave broke at least a thousand windows.

I was visiting in our eastern mountains several years when I heard a big explosion. It sounded just the other side of a big hill. I thought it might have been blasting at a small quarry about two miles away from my location but less than a mile given the curved road around that hill. At a meeting the next day everyone was excited about the explosion but had no additional information. Some time later I read a brick size rock had fallen in or near a home perhaps ten miles distant.


45 posted on 05/16/2026 9:06:29 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authorsed for deadlity: report facts and post their links" in your messages.)
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To: marktwain

“… Could take out a large city, though.”

Let me know if they’re taking nominees


54 posted on 05/16/2026 2:00:47 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (There will be a celebration in January 2025, either with champagne or with “hardware)
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