Posted on 11/06/2008 7:18:08 AM PST by cogitator
Two very interesting links below.
Ethiopia reports record volcanic eruption
First paragraph: "A volcano in Ethiopia's northeastern Afar region erupted on Monday, researchers said Wednesday, prompting a minor earthquake and record lava flows covering 300 square kilometres (115 square miles)."
Meteosat-8 Rapid Scan captures asteroid impact
First paragraph: "On 7 October, asteroid 2008 TC3 entered the atmosphere over northern Sudan and exploded. Amazingly, the Meteosat-8 Rapid Scanning Service managed to capture the impact."
My question on the second item; what if, instead of being 2-5 meters in diameter, the object had been 200-500 meters in diameter, with the same timing between discovery (the day before) and impact? What would world governments have done (and let's assume the same location scenario)?
pics would be interesting for sure
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Wormwood
Outside help? Like a earthquake, tsunami or volcano - how effective the assistance would be would depend on who was hit. A third world dictatorship steals the aid, a European-US democracy sends the aid, an Islamic/communist dictatorship prevents the aid.
Sobering.
“The asteroid exploded with the energy of around one kiloton, equal to the power of a small nuclear bomb. Infrasound detector arrays in Kenya also detected a sound wave from the direction of the expected impact corresponding to the energy of 1.1-2.1 kilotons of TNT.”
I pointed it out to others in line so I was not the only one to see it. It was high enough up that it didn't light but it was large enough to be visible from the ground at night.
I never did hear anything about it from the press and I just can't help but feel that we somehow were spared a very bad new years morning of 2004.
A rapid pull out of all UN Troops.
[What would world governments have done (and let’s assume the same location scenario)?]
With a rock that size the best thing the governments could do would be to advise everyone to place their heads firmly between their knees and kiss their butts goodbye.
Hopefully, world gov’ts would have done nothing. I’d imagine that the resulting panic would have a more devestating affect than the actual metor strike.
How do you know it was a rock, and not a satellite?
It was too close and it LOOKED LIKE A ROCK.
I have seen satellites on very clear nights and they always sort of flash or are just real bright in the night sky.
This was a very fast moving LARGE object very close to the edge of the atmosphere and it sort of wobbled as it moved across the sky as if rotating.
No. It wasn't a satellite.
I’ll have to take you at your word. But if you want to understand my skepticism, do the math. If your eye was able to resolve it as “a rock”, and it wasn’t flaming (not experiencing atmospheric friction), that sets a minimum distance and thus a minimum size for the object - a pretty LARGE size not to make the papers and set off air defense radars.
I am not saying that you are making this up, but what you are explaining is physically impossible.
That was my thinking also.
That was my thinking also.
Back in the mid seventies someone caught on film a meteor that "skipped" off of the earths atmosphere.
It actually got close enough to start to burn but never fell to earth given its trajectory. Like I said, it was caught on film. I have seen this film as it has been on TV shows.
So YES it is possible for a large object to come close to earth but not get drawn in by it's gravity and the speed and movement of this object pretty much ruled out its being a plane or satellite.
Why do you think it would be impossible for this to happen?
Don't forget that "OTHERS" saw it too, my wife being one of them.
It was not illuminated. It was just a bit brighter than the night sky and it was LARGE and very FAST. If you weren't looking in that general direction at that specific moment you would never have seen it.
I am pretty sure that our government "KNEW" about it before hand and probably "KNEW" it would just skirt our planet so why cause any undue panic.
Several fireballs and bolides lately:
“Roman Piffl sends this report from Slovakia: “Last night, a very bright Taurid fireball streaked over the northern horizon of Marianka near our capital city Bratislava.” He and colleagues Ivan Majchrovic and Tomas Maruska captured the meteor in this 30 second exposure”
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