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Posted on 02/03/2010 11:50:31 AM PST by TaraP
Astronomy Ireland says a major fireball was spotted over Ireland at around 6pm this evening.
It says the rock from space was seen blazing in the air by people all over the country and would have been travelling with the force of a small nuclear weapon.
Astronomy Ireland says there is a very good chance it has landed inland, but it is unlikely to have injured anyone.
It is not clear yet where it might have landed because the fireball was spotted by people all over the country.
While it would have been travelling at high speed when it was spotted, the rock would have slowed down when it hit the atmosphere.
The fireball could have been as large as a desk.
Valentia Coastguard said it has had reports of sightings from people living in Mullingar, Limerick, Ballybunion and Bantry.
Well, has the meteorite been located anywhere in Ireland yet? Are there any dead sheep or cows or cars (or wee folk) smashed? Come on now, it must be known by now.....???
Oh wait, I said “smashed”... Hehehe.
Do you see any Biblical Significance?
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144? (As in the 144,000?) million kilometres from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars (The Planet of War) and Jupiter (The Planet of Expansion?) Just a thought...
Well..., in the case of the 144,000 (in Revelation), that's been explained (at least to me, from what the Bible says) as 12,000 from each of the named 12 tribes of Israel. So, those are 144,000 -- and not asteroids... :-)
Besides, that... let's say that the 144,000 wasn't there in Revelation... we would still have to deal with the fact that I use miles and they're using kilometers. If I use "miles" then the 144,000-number doesn't work anymore... :-)
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1989. Of course, our tour guides loved to take us on brutal hikes anyway, so maybe “forgot” about an easier route.
I think they must have done something like that. Although all the facilities that are there now, probably weren't there when I was there (back in the 70s), still, you had a parking lot, a visitor building and the crater was "right there" at the visitor's center... :-)
Located on the rim of the crater, the Meteor Crater Visitor Center is the gateway to discovering the wonders of the best preserved meteorite impact site on the planet.
The fully air-conditioned modern building features an 80-seat widescreen theater, indoor crater viewing area, crater trail access, interactive discovery center, artifacts and exhibits, gift shop, and Subway restaurant. Elevators and ADA accessibility at the Visitor Center entrance are available for guests with special needs.
Visitors are encouraged to begin their Meteor Crater adventure by enjoying a 10-minute movie which explores the origins of Meteor Crater and focuses on its value as a living geological and astrological laboratory.
"Collisions and Impacts" --shown twice each hour--allows viewers to sample the wondrous sound and explosive fury of the meteor's super-heated trip through the Earth's atmosphere and ground-shaking collision with the Earth in Northern Arizona.
Visitors may then choose the view the crater via the air-conditioned indoor viewing area or venture out on the crater's rim on one of several self-guiding observation trails. The trails include interpretive signs plus observation telescopes for a closer look at the details of the huge crater and artifacts left from human exploration.
Guests to Meteor Crater may also put on their hiking boots or good walking shoes for a 1/2 mile guided foot tour of the crater rim which leaves the Visitor Center hourly between 9:15am and 2:15pm, weather permitting.
Because of his handle?
Well..., actually, I find that simply being on the Internet and knowing how to use Google helps quite a bit... :-)
Not really. A meteor is the tangible thing that follows the path, or is the visually observable phenomenon.
Well, take a look at the definition in Post #59, and you will find that this is a given definition... :-)
The term “meteor” properly refers to any atmospheric phenomenon, such as a cloud, or lightning. The term gained its modern meaning because the nature and cause of meteors ( in the modern astronomical sense ) were not understood, and the generic term implied no judgement of the question.
When the question was finally settled in the late 1700’s it was too late to abandon the usage, and it eclipsed the generic meaning. It is still considered proper, though, to use meteoroid and meteorite to refer to the object itself, and meteor in the general sense of the phenomenon considered as an apparition.
To 75 - Of course not because of his site name. I’ve read numerous posts that he has submitted here, at FR.
Oh, rub it in, huh?!:) I’m still sore... OTH, maybe was a different crater? Pretty much NNE Arizona, though.
THE END IS NEAR!
:-) ... in any case, that’s the only one like it in Arizona (in that good of a condition), much less the U.S. or the world...
You’re not talking about walking down to the bottom of it, are you? Now, that would be a big hike all right.
Oh no, I ain’t goin’ in no crater, bud...:)
On the other hand, on the same trip, I did enter some kivas and enjoyed that, especially Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.
Interesting how the glow around the fireball becomes brighter and more orange as the atmosphere is more dense. As for the impact of a desk size meteor, compare the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was the size of Washington, DC cubed and left a crater 120 miles in diameter. The Chesapeake meteor that left a 60 mile crater was probably 3 miles cubed.
To 75 - Of course not because of his site name. I’ve read numerous posts that he has submitted here, at FR.
Well, I'm glad to hear you disagree with some of my posts... otherwise, I would think you were somewhate disturbed, if you agreed with them all... LOL...
Plus, all that energy is disapated in the “stream” of heat and hot gasses (and discarded molten rock) around the fireball: Figure 85,000 feet drop through atmosphere, cross-wise travel of 500 some-odd miles ....
Spreads that energy out a bit.
It’s a fun hike.
Going to the bottom of the Grand canyon is an all day affair. Back up the next day.
Have you hiked down to the bottom of the Barringer Crater then? I hear that there are the remains of either a helicopter or a small plane that couldn’t get out of the crater once they had flown into it. Did you see that? Just wondering...
Summer, 1972. Don’t recall any stories about aircraft inside: I was more interested in the stories about what they found in the sides (not bottom!) of the crater.
Summer, 1972. Don’t recall any stories about aircraft inside: I was more interested in the stories about what they found in the sides (not bottom!) of the crater.
I had to look it up, because I couldn't remember the details...
Standing on the crater's 150-foot-tall rim, Mark points to a piece of wreckage that has been on the crater's floor since the late 1960s. He tells a story that suggests that the world has more to fear from people flying small planes than rocks falling from outer space.
"Two guys in a single-engine Cessna decided to fly into the crater to get a closer look," he explains. "But when they got in, they couldn't get out. There's a layer of wind spins over the crater like an invisible force field. Two and a half hours later, they ran out of gas and tried to land, but the plane cartwheeled and crashed. They were lucky, they lived."
And, what was found in the sides of the crater?
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