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To: BenLurkin
The office estimates a small asteroid about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter then broke apart about 18 miles (29 kilometers) above the town of Oak Grove.

Wait a minute...

A meteor turned into an asteroid?

-PJ

22 posted on 08/19/2018 1:10:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Started out as an Astre (the thing had some momentum).


23 posted on 08/19/2018 1:26:28 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Political Junkie Too
A meteor turned into an asteroid?

It started as an asteroid and became a meteor when it entered the atmosphere.

28 posted on 08/19/2018 3:40:52 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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