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Major Bolide Forecast Tonight; No Damage Expected
SkyandTelescope.com ^
| 10/06/2008
| Tony Flanders
Posted on 10/06/2008 6:25:00 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF
...Last night (Sunday, October 5th), a telescope on Mount Lemmon, Arizona, detected a tiny moving blip, the signature of a small chunk of rock moving rapidly through space. Twenty-five observations have been done since then by professional and amateur astronomers around the world, and the object's orbit has been pinned down with fairly high precision. It is almost certain to hit Earth's atmosphere around 10:46 p.m. EDT tonight, October 6th. (That's 2:46 a.m. October 7th, Greenwich Mean Time.)
The rock is roughly 10 feet (3 meters) across, and it's expected to enter the atmosphere above northern Sudan at about 8 miles (12 km) per second. The energy released should be approximately equal to one kiloton of conventional explosives. Fortunately, no damage is expected, since the blast will take place in the upper atmosphere....
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KEYWORDS: 1kt; 2008tc3; 2009bd; asteroid; asteroids; catastrophism; sudan; sudanasteroid
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A little late but
PEOPLE IN SUDAN: DUCK!!!" A few meteorites may fall in about an hour.
People in America and Western Europe: BE PREPARED: Boring Darfur meteorite relief telethon anticipated in a few weeks.
To: InABunkerUnderSF
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:27:04 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Obama IS running against Palin)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
Maybe it’ll land on Iran and save us the trouble! :D
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:27:34 PM PDT
by
luvie
(McCain/PALIN!!!!--'nuff said! :D)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:28:08 PM PDT
by
Colonial Warrior
(Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
Where is it going after it gets done with Sudan? Are you sure it ain’t Bill Clinton going after that aspirin factory again?
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:29:02 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
maybe it is the mother ship
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:29:17 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi mom I know McCain couldnÂ’t answer her in a flippant way, but IF HE COULD it would have nice to)
To: al baby
maybe it is the mother ship.
Not due until after the election.
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:31:31 PM PDT
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:32:40 PM PDT
by
dbacks
(I would rather be Sarah Palin than Para-Sailin'!)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
I just saw a bolide this morning, as I was driving to work. I was on a country road outside Lexington, KY, and half a mile before I crossed Interstate 64, it passed over me, going from east to west. It was bright yellow in color, and sputtered before disappearing. Because the sky was overcast, it must have been below the clouds; otherwise I wouldn’t have seen it at all. Therefore I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the meteor made it to the ground, leaving some new rocks in a cow pasture.
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:33:00 PM PDT
by
Berosus
(I already have a Messiah, I'm looking for a new president.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
It doesn’t tell the reader what a BOLIDE is, why not?
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:33:43 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: InABunkerUnderSF
“No Damage Expected”
Women and minorities hardest hit.
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:35:06 PM PDT
by
dbacks
(I would rather be Sarah Palin than Para-Sailin'!)
To: dbacks
"The Gods Must Be Crazy!" One of the best movies -- ever...
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:35:17 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(To anger a conservative: lie about him. To anger a liberal: tell the truth...)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
Hopefully it will land on the pirates, taking them and the Russian arms down to Davy Jones’ Locker.
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:35:20 PM PDT
by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
The UN can just declare the Sudan a “No Bolide Zone”. Problem solved...
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:35:42 PM PDT
by
LRS
(NO DRILLING; NO PEACE!)
To: Rudder
It doesnt tell the reader what a BOLIDE is, why not?Sorry, it's an amateur astronomy magazine. The readers would generally know. A bolide is a large meteor, in this case a 10 foot rock. Bolides leave prominent trails across the sky and sometimes cause sonic booms. Meteorites from bolides may survive to reach the earth.
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:40:34 PM PDT
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
Here is one from 1998 over Kansas.
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:43:09 PM PDT
by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: InABunkerUnderSF
2:46 UCT is five minutes from now according to my desktop clock (daylight savings time here).
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:43:41 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: steve86
Does the UK have DST now?
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:45:18 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: steve86
So is the end of the world 2 minutes from now or 62 minutes?
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:46:12 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: steve86
Yikes! I miss that. Another good reason to abolish daylights savings time.
In that case it should be hitting the atmosphere right about....NOW!
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posted on
10/06/2008 6:46:56 PM PDT
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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