I can't wait to see the faces on those Russian cops when an Imperial Probe Droid pops out of that crater and figures out its NOT on Hoth!
Posted on 02/15/2013 4:17:13 AM PST by LadyEleanor
Edited on 02/15/2013 4:55:53 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MOSCOW -- The Russian Academy of Sciences is estimating the meteor that streaked into the skies over the Ural Mountains and caused shock waves that injured more than 400 people weighed about 10 tons (11 tons avoirdupois).
The academy said in a statement hours after the Friday morning fall that the meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above ground.
The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area. The Emergency Ministry says more than 500 people sought treatment after the blasts and that 34 of them were hospitalized.
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Altitude could be calculated from the shadow on the satellite video.
If I could hunt down a video showing the start of the trail AND the boom, it could be guestimated from the time delay but one problem is the speed of sound changes a little bit with altitude.
It would have to be video where the meteorite went directly overhead as well, of course, to make the calculation easier.
Yeah.
The calculations from that may be different from what the article says.
Kinda curious how it stacks up against the artcile info, and I stink at math.
Just keep an eye open for the Obamanation of Desolation.
He is going to visit Israel soon (Ugh).
I wonder if the journalists will ever get it right. It was a meteorite... Funny because that mistake was cited by others saying the thread last night was a hoax, and got moved to Chat. I’d link the thread from last night that has a ton of video links and info., but I’m writing this via our nintendo wii with no copy/paste function.
people also mentioned this point when a far, far more devastating event took place there in 1986.
According to his book, Trials, Tribulation & Triumph Before, during and After Antichrist by Desmond A. Birch
Saint Hildegard (12th Century)
Before the comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scourged by want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent will be devastated by earthquake, storm, and tidal wave. It will be divided and, in great part, submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea and lose its colonies.
Birch is quoted as saying, “Most serious students of the prophecies consider the reference to a ‘great nation’ to be a reference to England.”
England had colonies and also was renowned for it’s great Naval Power.
Good thing this didn’t happen in Los Angeles ... can you imagine the carnage? The LAPD would run out of ammo within hours.
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I didn’t know about the earlier thread - what was a “hoax” was the video of the decades-long natural gas crater fire in Azerbaijan was being posted as supposedly being the impact crater.
The problem is that natural gas fire crater looks like the meteorite craters from bad movies.
One tip-off for false meteor falls in general is reports that they started fires, etc. Small meteors actually land at room temperature.
Pill? Is that a Matrix reference?
Yes. So they did.
The NIV project was begun in 1966. I have no idea when the word “Chernobyl” was chosen for that verse. I was reading the NIV in 1981, which STILL predates the Chernobyl disaster.
So, it’s all very interesting to say the least.
It was quickly identified as such within the thread. Not sure if it was moved before or after though. That one link should have been deleted, imo. Others pointed to the source - RT - as the problem. Honestly, I think the mod saw the phrase “sparks UFO fears” as was in the original headline and “filed” it in chat.
Not that it matters at this point, and it wasn’t my thread or anything. It was just frustrating is all. People rely on the AP reporting of something to establish validity too often, imo. Just a pet peeve of mine since an interaction I had on election night with the editor of my local paper... :)
Most important thing right now is just to find all the dangerous asteroids in the first place.
This private foundation that includes an Apollo 9 astronaut is raising money to orbit an asteroid-detection telescope near Venus (I’m not affiliated with them but I just tossed them $25):
http://b612foundation.org/donate/
I can't wait to see the faces on those Russian cops when an Imperial Probe Droid pops out of that crater and figures out its NOT on Hoth!
We need a live thread for the asteroid near miss! If the world ends, I want to be FReeping.....lol. 20 minutes to go!
Foxnews saying 3 thousand buildings damaged by it.
It’s close now.
We need a live thread for the asteroid near miss! If the world ends, I want to be FReeping.....lol. 20 minutes to go!-lol- For those that would rather be PRaying, I leave this link: http://rosaryforpeace.com.
Excellent point...lol...better do that too.
Yeah, was thinking about that as well. I love this picture.
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/image/0903/earthgrazer_ansmet_big.jpg
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