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....
Back in my college days, back before muslems went crazy, I had an Iranian drinking buddy study partner, whose dream was to go back to Tehran and open the Twelfth Immam Bar, Grill and Pizzeria. This was in 1977. Somehow I don't think he ever did that.
Big light in sky slated to appear in east.
I was in college about the same time. We came up with an idea for a movie called "Renegade Mullahs on Wheels". It featured a little muslim hot spot retreat called "Disco Dhabi".
Me John. Big tree.
Standing BY ,, hope it’s not a dud.:-)
I am sooooo ~~~shakin’~~~ in my shoes! LOL!
[It doesnt tell the reader what a BOLIDE is, why not?]
I had a bolide once, but Doc zapped it with some nitogen.
Looks like it entered at 10:46 EDT after all.
Note: this topic is from 10/06/2008. Thanks InABunkerUnderSF.
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