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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34678033 Germany 02/18/2013 08:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and it was classified. spaceweather lists rocks from 12m + but the russian one they must have forget;) [link to www.spaceweather.com] Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Size 1999 YK5 Feb 15 49.1 LD 2.1 km 2012 DA14 Feb 15 0.09 LD 65 m 2013 DB Feb 16 5 LD 31 m 2013 CE82 Feb 17 4.6 LD 53 m 2013 CW129 Feb 18 1.3 LD 12 m 2013 CZ87 Feb 19 7 LD 28 m 2009 AV Feb 25 59.7 LD 1.0 km 2007 EO88 Mar 18 4.4 LD 23 m 1993 UC Mar 20 49 LD 3.8 km 1997 AP10 Mar 28 45.9 LD 1.8 km 2010 GM23 Apr 13 3.9 LD 50 m 2005 NZ6 Apr 29 24.9 LD 1.3 km 2001 DQ8 Apr 30 74.3 LD 1.1 km |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 34399218 Canada 02/18/2013 08:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and it was classified. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34678033 spaceweather lists rocks from 12m + but the russian one they must have forget;) [link to www.spaceweather.com] Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Size 1999 YK5 Feb 15 49.1 LD 2.1 km 2012 DA14 Feb 15 0.09 LD 65 m 2013 DB Feb 16 5 LD 31 m 2013 CE82 Feb 17 4.6 LD 53 m 2013 CW129 Feb 18 1.3 LD 12 m 2013 CZ87 Feb 19 7 LD 28 m 2009 AV Feb 25 59.7 LD 1.0 km 2007 EO88 Mar 18 4.4 LD 23 m 1993 UC Mar 20 49 LD 3.8 km 1997 AP10 Mar 28 45.9 LD 1.8 km 2010 GM23 Apr 13 3.9 LD 50 m 2005 NZ6 Apr 29 24.9 LD 1.3 km 2001 DQ8 Apr 30 74.3 LD 1.1 km Guess they are not as good at detecting all of them as they though. I dunno but if I knew some big sumbitch was doing a fly-by, I would be looking for spawn from it as they travel in packs. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34678033 Germany 02/18/2013 08:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Worthless NASA, can't even detect 55 feet wide meteors that could have annihilated a city - 30 times bigger than Hiroshima! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26050784 when you open this link [link to www.spaceweather.com] and scroll down to Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: you will see they can but they don't tell you about the ones that actually hit, so they can pretend it was a coincidence and will not happen again the next 100 years and so on. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26050784 United States 02/18/2013 09:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Worthless NASA, can't even detect 55 feet wide meteors that could have annihilated a city - 30 times bigger than Hiroshima! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26050784 when you open this link [link to www.spaceweather.com] and scroll down to Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: you will see they can but they don't tell you about the ones that actually hit, so they can pretend it was a coincidence and will not happen again the next 100 years and so on. LOL, yeah list a bunch of asteroids that miss, ignore the one that hits. Don't think those idiots even know what that was that hit Russia. The MSM likes to trot out these scientists that pretend to know. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34464973 United States 02/18/2013 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The most intense part of the explosion was at about 20 miles high... and it still blew out windows. In addition, explosions that high have a poor conductivity through the atmosphere to the ground due to the low density of the atmosphere that high. That should say something to the power of this meteor. If it had been at a steeper angle into the atmosphere, it would have detonated lower and been possibly much worse. I dont trust anything the MSM says.. for all I know it could've been iron or copper and a UFO saved the day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18475264 The analysis of height, size, trajectory, composition, etc has been conducted by numerous professional scientists and amateurs around the world, not by the MSM. Its good to be a questioning truth-seeker, but unintelligent/uninformed/misinformed paranoia and skepticism should not be a part of that. If youre gonna question things, then its your responisibility to go look for facts and determine which facts are correct or not. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 16698448 Australia 02/18/2013 10:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Calling Dr. Astro. Astromut, what say you? Some say it is BS but I think a 55 ft rock would weight 10,000 TONS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34399218 yes it weight 10,000 TONS . YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1156712 Australia 02/18/2013 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Calling Dr. Astro. Astromut, what say you? Some say it is BS but I think a 55 ft rock would weight 10,000 TONS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34399218 yes it weight 10,000 TONS . YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass. And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34464973 United States 02/18/2013 10:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Calling Dr. Astro. Astromut, what say you? Some say it is BS but I think a 55 ft rock would weight 10,000 TONS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34399218 yes it weight 10,000 TONS . YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass. And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange. The piece that made the hole in the ice hasnt been found. Thats got to be at least basketball size. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1156712 Australia 02/18/2013 10:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass. And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange. The piece that made the hole in the ice hasnt been found. Thats got to be at least basketball size. What about the factory that was half destroyed, maybe that's where the 7mm piece came from. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1482838 United States 02/18/2013 10:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Calling Dr. Astro. Astromut, what say you? Some say it is BS but I think a 55 ft rock would weight 10,000 TONS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34399218 yes it weight 10,000 TONS . YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass. And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange. Yes, 10,000 tons is a lot of debris. If it was, it fell somewhere, so where? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25781251 United States 02/18/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16698448 YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass. And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange. The piece that made the hole in the ice hasnt been found. Thats got to be at least basketball size. What about the factory that was half destroyed, maybe that's where the 7mm piece came from. That was actually destroyed by the blast wave. The meteor fell several miles away from there. |
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Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States 02/18/2013 11:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and it was classified. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34678033 spaceweather lists rocks from 12m + but the russian one they must have forget;) [link to www.spaceweather.com] Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Size 1999 YK5 Feb 15 49.1 LD 2.1 km 2012 DA14 Feb 15 0.09 LD 65 m 2013 DB Feb 16 5 LD 31 m 2013 CE82 Feb 17 4.6 LD 53 m 2013 CW129 Feb 18 1.3 LD 12 m 2013 CZ87 Feb 19 7 LD 28 m 2009 AV Feb 25 59.7 LD 1.0 km 2007 EO88 Mar 18 4.4 LD 23 m 1993 UC Mar 20 49 LD 3.8 km 1997 AP10 Mar 28 45.9 LD 1.8 km 2010 GM23 Apr 13 3.9 LD 50 m 2005 NZ6 Apr 29 24.9 LD 1.3 km 2001 DQ8 Apr 30 74.3 LD 1.1 km I missed the part where they said they could detect everything, particularly on earth's day side. |