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Boom-like sounds associated with fireball over northern Virginia and eastern West Virginia, U.S.
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| 9/18/21
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Posted on 09/20/2021 5:16:39 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
There are many reports of 'boom-like' sounds associated with a couple of fireball sightings from northern Virginia around 14:30 UTC on September 17 (10:30 EDT). It's possible this event produced meteorites in the northern Virginia/eastern West Virginia area.
The currently available data are insufficient to determine a trajectory, but a strong fireball-like signature shows up at 14:24 UTC in the GOES 16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data, permitting an estimation of the energy of this event.1
A comparison to a previous fireball with good ground and GLM data puts the brightness of this morning's meteor at magnitude -12, the same brightness as the full Moon.
This corresponds to energy between 1 and 2 tons of TNT, which gives a mass of around 22.5 kg (50 pounds) for the object causing the fireball -- assuming a typical speed of 72 000 km/h (45 000 mph).
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: booms; explosions; va; wva
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Whiskey still blowin’ up?
2
posted on
09/20/2021 5:17:29 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
09/20/2021 5:20:23 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Somebody’s moonshine still “went up”?
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Probably the Nephilim, playing their silly games. 😀👍
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posted on
09/20/2021 5:46:41 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Almost, DC is to the east
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posted on
09/20/2021 5:46:58 AM PDT
by
Bloodandgravy
(Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not a pilgrim, but an escapist.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
09/20/2021 5:49:39 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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posted on
09/20/2021 6:08:08 AM PDT
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
To: Roman_War_Criminal
When you hear them they’re called bolides, if memory serves...
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posted on
09/20/2021 6:30:12 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Deplorable me! )
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Missed D.C. by that much.
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posted on
09/20/2021 8:12:07 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Within 15-20 miles from me. At 10:30 am, wife and I heard a very loud explosion. It shook the walls and windows. No rumble, or follow through, just one very loud bang. Makes sense it was a sonic boom. Sounded like someone setting off dynamite on the mountain above us. Was heard in a forty square mile radius that is filled with valleys and mountains. This from maybe a five pound rock.
Rest assured, if the “big one” ever hits again, and you are close by . . . You won't know it.
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posted on
09/20/2021 10:31:50 AM PDT
by
Badboo
(You know in your bones America is dying. The Uniparty isn't going to stop ‘till the carcass rots.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
All space debris (meteors, asteroids, etc) enters the atmosphere at at least 25,000 mph, which is about Mach 32, so yeah, it's going to make a sonic boom. But they usually burn up while they're still high enough in the atmosphere that the 'boom' never reaches the ground.
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