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Explosion Reports May Be From Satellite Collision
KTVT - CBS Fort Worth ^
| 2/15/2009
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Posted on 02/15/2009 3:16:13 PM PST by PAR35
Sunday around 11:00 a.m. people from Plano to Houston, and even as far north as Nebraska, reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing debris falling from the sky. Many residents in Navarro and Hill counties reported that their houses shook along with the explosion.
In a conference call to local reporters, the FAA said they believe the cause of the explosion is two satellites that collided in space Tuesday. The American and Russian satellites collided 500 miles above the Siberian region of Russia.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: space; weatherballoon
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They are giving the same instructions as they did for the shuttle - if you see anything in your yard, don't touch it and call authorities.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:16:13 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
Shades of the satellite in the movie Andromeda Strain.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:18:22 PM PST
by
Lawdoc
(My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
To: PAR35
One would infer from the article that the residents might have heard the collision. This is doubly impossible, as it was in space and over Siberia.
That said, I'm sure something reentering could make a boom and leave debris.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:18:39 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(I'm not drinking the kool aid! Is it 2013 yet?)
To: PAR35
Excuse me but sound WILL NOT travel in a vacuum.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:20:34 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Chevron 7 will not engage!)
To: mad_as_he$$
Excuse me but sound WILL NOT travel in a vacuum.
Bull puckey. I saw Star Wars. LOL
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:21:52 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: PAR35
I am confused, I thought this happened last week
To: PAR35
Those alien teenagers and their loud exhausts!!!
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:23:51 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
((Sigh) Some days, it's just not worth trying to chew through the restraints.)
To: mad_as_he$$
Yeah, but the debris reentering the atmosphere will.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:24:13 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
(This Papist asks everyone to continue to pray the Rosary for our country!)
To: PAR35
How does it take from Tuesday to Sunday for the sound and debris to make noise and fall from space?
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:24:26 PM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: PAR35
(insert picture “We’re as screwed as screwed can be”)
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:25:06 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Even the earth is bipolar.)
To: easternsky
It did, but some of the bits are now reentering the atmosphere.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:26:39 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PAR35
In a conference call to local reporters, the FAA said they believe the cause of the explosion is two satellites that collided in space Tuesday. Oh come on folks that's just the cover story. The real story is our SDI defense network took out a UFO.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:28:21 PM PST
by
garbanzo
(Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
To: PAR35
“two satellites that collided in space Tuesday”
the russians kamakaze’d a US satellite?
To: Army Air Corps
Nebraska to Texas could that be????
To: PAR35
I’m really surprised Bari hasn’t already made the wear of helmets mandatory.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:30:05 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Have You Punched A Democrat Today? - Do it for the children.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I am sure he is working on that along with a lot of other crap.
To: easternsky
When satellites smash into one another, they can spread debris across a number of orbital paths. Think of how wide the debris field was for Columbia.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:34:03 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PAR35
Seems to be a lot of satellite collisions lately.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:34:03 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
To: PAR35
We were flying to Miami Friday and got a NOTAM from ATC warning of possible debris from the sattelite collision. We were told to report any signs of debris re entry. Thankfully we didn’t see any!
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:36:54 PM PST
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: raybbr
How does it take from Tuesday to Sunday for the sound and debris to make noise and fall from space? Decaying orbits.
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posted on
02/15/2009 3:36:57 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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