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Asteroid 'Hit Northern Russia'
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| 10-4-2002
Posted on 10/05/2002 12:02:00 PM PDT by blam
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Has anyone seen this in the news? Tunguska-2?
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:02:00 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
US general fears asteroid explosion could trigger nuclear war A high-ranking US military official has warned it's possible a stray asteroid could trigger atomic war.
Air Force Brigadier General Simon P. Worden voiced his fears to members of a House Science sub-committee.
General Worden is deputy director for operations of the US Strategic Command.
He said about 30 times a year space rock smashes into the atmosphere and explodes, releasing energy equal to that of an atomic bomb.
He believes there is a chance the explosions could be mistaken for a nuclear attack.
The United States has satellite instruments that determine within a minute if the explosion is a nuclear weapon or a natural explosion from an asteroid.
But General Worden says no other countries have such technology and without it, some could conclude they have come under attack.
He cited an example of an asteroid explosion in August, while Pakistan and India were at full alert over Kashmir.
He said a few weeks before US satellites detected an atmospheric flash over the Mediterranean that indicated "an energy release comparable to the Hiroshima burst.
"The resulting panic in the nuclear-armed and hair-triggered opposing forces could have been the spark that ignited a nuclear horror we have avoided for over a half-century," the general said.
Story filed: 08:38 Friday 4th October 2002
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:05:55 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
A large meteorite is thought to have smashed into a forest in a remote area of Russia. Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:07:03 PM PDT
by
Mulder
To: blam
This is interesting. A piece of comet hit Siberia in 1908. It exploded with such force that is flattened miles of forest. I've seen recent pictures that are pretty interesting.
To: blam
No, but yesterday one of the news issues was the possible effects of an asteroid hit. They said America can pretty much know when one is comming, but not 3rd world countries. They might think they have been hit by a bomb instead.
Must be the US knew it was comming, and maybe Russia too. Or we warned Russia.
Anyway, the concern was if it were to hit, say, Iraq, India or Iran. They'd think they were at war.
To: RadioAstronomer; longshadow; PatrickHenry
Boom!
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:10:23 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: blam
"At least 30 times a year, asteroids smash into the Earth's atmosphere and explode with the force of a nuclear bomb." Are there any astronomers in our ranks? This stat seems very high.
I would think that if 30 astronds hit with this sort of impact each year that a city would have disappeared by now.
To: blam
BTTT
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:12:37 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
To: Mulder
"Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?"
Funny you should ask. Some folks feel the sacred rock of the Ka'ba in Mecca is in fact of meteoric origin.
From
http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/legend.htm:
"The wall of the Ka'ba, the holiest shrine of Islam at Mecca contains a black stone that has been reported to be of meteoritic origin. The stone which measures 16 by 20 cm and is held together by a silver band. Legend has it that the angel Gabriel gave the stone to the patriarch Abraham who built it into his house. The stone passed to the prophet Mohammed who built it into the wall of the Ka'ba. The black stone is not an object of worship, but is a venerated relict. Students of the matter now believe that the black stone is not meteoric, but may be impact glass, perhaps from the meteor crater at Wabar, about 100 km from Mecca."
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I've seen those same pictures on the Discovery Channel --- Tunguska, 1908. No crater was found because the icy comet exploded in the earth's atmosphere before contact with the ground.
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:13:41 PM PDT
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Mr. Mojo
To: shadowman99
astroids!!! Not Astronds!!! Or Osmonds or anything else....
FR needs a spell checker...
To: Mulder
"Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?" They did, where do you think they got the rock they worship?
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:15:45 PM PDT
by
blam
To: shadowman99
astroids!!! Not Astronds!!! Actually, it's asteroids.
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:16:32 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: blam
Residents in the town of Bodaibo, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, saw a large luminous body fall from the sky. They say the impact caused the ground to shake and made a sound like thunder. Jerrold Nadler?
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:17:48 PM PDT
by
bootless
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
"Legend has it that the angel Gabriel gave the stone to the patriarch Abraham who built it into his house." I actually believe the angel Gabriel was the asteroid.
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posted on
10/05/2002 12:18:07 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
They did, where do you think they got the rock they worship? It just fell a few hundred years early.
To: blam
town of Bodaibo, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, Life isn't hard enough there without the sky falling? Those poor people must be scared out of their wits. I hope they don't blame it on GWB, but they probably will. Everything in the world and elsewhere is his fault, doncha know.
To: Mulder
Or New Joisey........
To: Rye
To: PoisedWoman
I hope they don't blame it on GWB, but they probably will. Did the asteroid get UN approval?
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