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Asteroid Strikes Colombia -- American Media Buries It!
The Intel Hub ^ | Monday, September 6, 2010 | "Alex"

Posted on 09/07/2010 10:37:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

**Update -- Intel Hub -- RSOE EDIS is reporting that a 1,000 strong search team was tasked with finding the impact area and so far have been unable to locate it... Such a colossal event, so little media coverage. Around 3:10PM Sunday afternoon residents of Colombia were awestruck when the clear sky was cracked open by a massive fireball that exploded upon impact leaving a 300 foot wide crater and a lot of rattled nerves.

(Excerpt) Read more at theintelhub.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; bolide; catastrophism; colombia; impact; meteor; meteorite; stalactites; stalagmites
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Colombia: 'Giant fireball' was a meteorite -- Monday, 06 September 2010 07:56 Kirsten Begg -- Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fireball" that fell from the sky in the Santander department, central Colombia, was a meteorite. The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday. Andina.com reported that Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed that the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter when it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander. Colombian air force helicopters were commissioned to fly over the area to try to locate the source of the explosion. The director of the University of Nariño's Astronomic Observatory, Alberto Quijano, told RCN Radio Sunday that he believed the object was a meteorite. In rural areas of Santander, police received reports that the explosion had shattered windows in the area.


Colombia: Giant fireball was a meteorite
1 posted on 09/07/2010 10:37:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

2 Asteroids to Pass Earth Closer Than the Moon

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/asteroids-passing-near-earth-100907.html


2 posted on 09/07/2010 10:39:52 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: Whenifhow; BenLurkin; dayglored; dusttoyou; gleeaikin; HP8753; rdl6989; SaxxonWoods; ...
Thanks Whenifhow!
 
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3 posted on 09/07/2010 10:40:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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The rest of Whenifhow’s links from FReepmail:

http://www.e-consulta.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45531&Itemid=258
http://www.milenio.com/node/379635
http://www.periodicodigital.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105468&catid=66&Itemid=96
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrQCY3PPo0E&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7k9LcSNQ2Q&feature=player_embedded


4 posted on 09/07/2010 10:41:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Thanks TMMT! I also pinged everyone who posted in that topic. :’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2584231/posts


5 posted on 09/07/2010 10:42:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: SunkenCiv

A freeper in ?Chicago? posted a thread about it? Saw it out jogging in the morning?

Try to find the thread.


6 posted on 09/07/2010 10:45:30 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: SunkenCiv; Western Phil

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2583101/posts

Meteor - Sept 4

by WesternPhil


7 posted on 09/07/2010 10:47:23 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow!


8 posted on 09/07/2010 10:48:05 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

And it will be Bush’s fault in 3... 2... 1...


9 posted on 09/07/2010 11:00:44 PM PDT by EscapedDutch ("Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money" - Lady Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SunkenCiv

The article says, on the one hand, that there is a 100 meter impact crater, and on the other hand, that it has not been located. So I think we must reserve judgment.


10 posted on 09/07/2010 11:01:19 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: SunkenCiv

300 ft. would be roughly minivan size.


11 posted on 09/07/2010 11:01:39 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: SunkenCiv

*


12 posted on 09/07/2010 11:02:02 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: SunkenCiv

Just not lucky, I guess....


13 posted on 09/07/2010 11:09:49 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Did it hit the United States? No? Then it really is not news for the United States.


14 posted on 09/07/2010 11:11:58 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: txhurl

Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2583101/posts


15 posted on 09/07/2010 11:14:27 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: txhurl

Opps I see you already found it.

Disregard my other post to you.


16 posted on 09/07/2010 11:15:42 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: SunkenCiv

Not 300 feet.

17 posted on 09/07/2010 11:33:10 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow! This is amazing.

Lucky it did not hit anyone.


18 posted on 09/07/2010 11:37:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv
It would be so cool to be on the team that gets to analyze it. A fresh impact is rare. Hopefully we can get some updates on the materials identified as it is checked out. Rocks are cool but outer-space rocks are really cool. (I know the vacuum of space is cold. Pun intended. 8-) )
19 posted on 09/07/2010 11:46:37 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

That impact crater is from months ago. Was it Mexico?

There was a thread.


20 posted on 09/07/2010 11:51:25 PM PDT by txhurl
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