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WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years

 
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WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
We were some fucking lucky that bitch was not iron nor nickel or we would have had a real catastrophe.

The bulk of it burned in the atmosphere because it was stone. If it had been metal we would be talking about millions dead.

"The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material, scientists said, making it the largest such object to hit the Earth in more than a century.

Large pieces of the meteor have yet to be found. However, a team from the Urals Federal University, which is based in Yekaterinburg, collected 53 fragments, the largest of which was 7 millimeters, according to Viktor Grokhovsky, a scientist at the university."


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02/18/2013 08:49 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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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02/18/2013 08:53 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
Worthless NASA, can't even detect 55 feet wide meteors that could have annihilated a city - 30 times bigger than Hiroshima!
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34678033


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.
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02/18/2013 08:56 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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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02/18/2013 08:59 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material
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02/18/2013 09:04 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34678033


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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02/18/2013 09:05 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
I dont trust anything the MSM says.. for all I know it could've been iron or copper and a UFO saved the day.
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02/18/2013 09:06 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material
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02/18/2013 09:25 PM
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sorry that was not error
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02/18/2013 09:28 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
Biggest in 100 years; not one morsel of remnant from it....if all asteroids burned away in the atmosphere like this how the hell could their "colliding body and accumulation" theories remotely be true???
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02/18/2013 09:32 PM
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sorry that was not error
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Calling Dr. Astro. Astromut, what say you? Some say it is BS but I think a 55 ft rock would weight 10,000 TONS.
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02/18/2013 09:38 PM
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Calling Dr. Astro. Astromut, what say you? Some say it is BS but I think a 55 ft rock would weight 10,000 TONS.
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yes it weight 10,000 TONS .
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02/18/2013 10:41 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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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02/18/2013 10:43 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
Also, this is the largest *known* meteor event since Tunguska 1908. There could have been a larger one over the oceans or over a sparsely populated area where it was not reported in the past 100 years. jus sayin
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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 .
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488672


YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass.
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02/18/2013 10:48 PM
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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 .
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488672


YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16698448


And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange.
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02/18/2013 10:50 PM
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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 .
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488672


YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16698448


And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1156712


The piece that made the hole in the ice hasnt been found. Thats got to be at least basketball size.
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yes it weight 10,000 TONS .
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488672


YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16698448


And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1156712


The piece that made the hole in the ice hasnt been found. Thats got to be at least basketball size.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34464973


What about the factory that was half destroyed, maybe that's where the 7mm piece came from.
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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 .
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1488672


YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16698448


And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1156712


Yes, 10,000 tons is a lot of debris. If it was, it fell somewhere, so where?
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YEP..they had special scales they deployed from the space station to weigh it before they let it pass.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16698448


And the biggest piece they could find was 7mm, hmm strange.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1156712


The piece that made the hole in the ice hasnt been found. Thats got to be at least basketball size.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34464973


What about the factory that was half destroyed, maybe that's where the 7mm piece came from.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1156712


That was actually destroyed by the blast wave. The meteor fell several miles away from there.
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02/18/2013 11:13 PM
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Yes, 10,000 tons is a lot of debris. If it was, it fell somewhere, so where?
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The vast majority of it was vaporized. Thats what all dat dere smoke came from.
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Re: WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34678033


I missed the part where they said they could detect everything, particularly on earth's day side.
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