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Ukraine: Meteorite may have caused flash that alarmed pilot
Haaretz ^
| 6-7-02
| Yossi Melman
Posted on 07/06/2002 11:34:12 AM PDT by Petar Mrkonjic
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I would think that the US satellites would have been able to verify if this was a missile launch.
To: Petar Mrkonjic
An El Al pilot reported seeing a missile fired from the ground Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that meteorites fall from the sky instead of flying upwards from the ground.
To: Petar Mrkonjic
Ukraine: Meteorite may have caused flash that alarmed pilot
and in other news ...
Ukraine: Meteorite may have caused meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:40:10 AM PDT
by
Bobby777
To: Petar Mrkonjic
El Al pilots are ex military. He would probably be able to tell the two apart.
To: Momaw Nadon; BrooklynGOP; Bobby777
As I mentioned,I believe that the US government can determine the cause,and most likely already has,as they did with the previous missile S-300,shot from Ukrayne.
To: Petar Mrkonjic
"Yeah... it was a meteor, that's it!"
To: BrooklynGOP
LA FBI agent Gracia is looking to see if this was a hate meteorite...
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:43:52 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: Sabertooth
"Yeah... it was a meteor, that's it!"And the LAX gunmen was just trying to get paid for his overdue El Al invoices!
La-la land is such fun!
(Wake me up when we're all dead).
To: Petar Mrkonjic
are they sure it wasn't 'swamp gas'?
To: browardchad
"Honest officer, I'm not drunk... I'm swerving from the meteorites!"
To: Momaw Nadon
Please read this
excerpt of a post from a n earlier thread on the same topic:
I have no doubt I'll get snide, mocking comments over this one. But now the pilot reports simply seem to indicate a "flash" and that practically screams "detonation of a fireball meteor bolide." No indication of seeing anything rise up from the ground. And even if that was seen, an "earthgrazer" fireball will rise UP from the horizon (meteor entering the atmosphere at a low "skimming" angle; I saw one of these last year, prior to the main Leonid storm in November. rose from the horizon to the zenith and detonated.) The average airline pilot, of course, has seen meteors, but will likely not have seen a truly bright fireball. They're common in one sense, in that there will be one over populated areas of the world SOMEWHERE every few weeks, but any individual person likely hasn't seen one. They mostly occur from midnight to 6 AM as well. And they are INCREDIBLY bright. I've never seen a REAL bright one, but during the Leonid "firball storm" of 1998, I saw one that literally lit up the entire countryside as if it were daylight when it detonated, and it left a glowing "smoke trail" that persisted for 8 minutes (timed with a stopwatch.) The trail visibly twisted in stratospheric winds. THAT fireball literally looked like a Patriot hitting a SCUD, and they get FAR brighter than the one I saw. And it's impossible to judge distances to them, and people UNIVERSALLY perceive them as far closer than they appear. Very few meteors lead to meteorite falls (actually hitting the ground) but for bright fireballs where the end of the trail ends up over the horizon, people will SWEAR up and down that it "hit" the ground just over the next hill, a mile or so away, when actually the fireball trail was over 60 miles away and nothing hit the ground.
1 posted on 7/6/02 8:23 AM Central by John H K [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
To: Petar Mrkonjic
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posted on
07/06/2002 12:06:04 PM PDT
by
lodwick
To: Petar Mrkonjic
After brazenly lying about the downing of KAL 007 in 1983, there's no reason to trust the Russian Defense Ministry.
I wonder if our satellites got a launch-detection? We may never know.
To: Petar Mrkonjic
Šta biti te dogaðaj ovdje? Ovih neo - konzervativan volja izvaditi drob te da te razilaziti se u mišljenju ravan pojedinac mrvica iz njihov zabava lineSome ovdje biti gori nego ponajgori odreðeni èlan Boljševik.
To: Petar Mrkonjic
Was it also a meteorite last year when an Israeli airliner was blown out of the Ukranian sky mysteriously last year?
La-la-lala, connect the dots...
To: Momaw Nadon
See the meteor they are describing is the kind that can change it's molecular formation so that it can go THROUGH the earth therefor that is why the pilot saw it the way he did. You really don't think the officials at the top would LIE to the public do you?
To: Dog
"hate meteorite"
ROFL
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posted on
07/06/2002 12:48:50 PM PDT
by
SarahW
To: Momaw Nadon
" Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that meteorites fall from the sky instead of flying upwards from the ground. '
That is one of the "No Dongs" meterorite. They always fall from the ground, upward.
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posted on
07/06/2002 12:49:09 PM PDT
by
auggy
To: Aleksandar Vojvoda
You may want to translate that.
To: OXENinFLA
Um, he is just whining in Croatian, complaining about us being worse than the strictest member of the Bolshevics. Wonder why he wants to hang around, then?
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