Are we losing our protective atmosphere?

NASA has released an article concerning the recent wave of fireballs observed across the planet, stating:


"This month, some big space rocks have been hitting Earth's atmosphere," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "There have been five or six notable fireballs that might have dropped meteorites around the United States."

It’s not the number of fireballs that has researchers puzzled. So far, fireball counts in February 2012 are about normal. Instead, it's the appearance and trajectory of the fireballs that sets them apart.

"These fireballs are particularly slow and penetrating," explains meteor expert Peter Brown, a physics professor at the University of Western Ontario. "They hit the top of the atmosphere moving slower than 15 km/s, decelerate rapidly, and make it to within 50 km of Earth’s surface."

Normal activity, yet particularly penetrating. What is the explanation for this? NASA doesnt offer one.



So I offer one:


The Earths atmosphere is collapsing! Can it be that it's not really that there are more of these fireballs, but that our atmosphere just isn't protecting Earth as efficiently?

Researchers expected to see a contraction due to a solar minimum, but not this significant.

One explanation may be an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Scientists are mulling over why part of the Earth's atmosphere recently suffered its biggest collapse since records began, and is only now starting to rebound.

The collapse occurred in a region known as the thermosphere, a rarefied layer of the planet's upper atmosphere between 90 and 600 kilometers (56 to 373 miles) above the surface, which shields us from the sun's far and extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation.

A report in Geophysical Research Letters by a team led by John Emmert from the United States Naval Research Laboratory has found that the thermosphere went through its biggest contraction in 43 years.

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All opinions and theories are welcome! Discuss away!

Last Edited by TheTruthMonger™ on 02/17/2013 09:56 PM