Sta.sh
Wow! 
Read about it and see the video here [link]
... and then, all you people who shiver in FEAR of CO2 molecules, tell me we shouldn't be out in space because it 'costs too much'!?! I mean, who gives a DAMN about thousands of space-related jobs, tracking and re-directing these things, when we can have boulders smashing into cities!
Note: I heard this on the radio, coming home from grocery run. By that time, over 1000 were reported injured, communications have been damaged, buildings have been damaged.
... did I mention the ASTEROID passing by later today?
*edit* Apparently a meteor also struck Cuba today (correction, Wednesday), and did damage... but I have yet to find a really good news site to verify that.
*further edit* Curious how some people get SO incensed, when shown information which disproves the contentions made about climate change. Even peer-reviewed research and government databases which say the Exact opposite of what is being claimed, mean nothing to such closed minds.
Fear of the weather... they're trying to force us back into the caves- and people are listening to them!
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Moving on, I have tons to do today.
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I may point out, the "experts" have said this was just a coincident, that the Russian meteorite came by at the same time. However, I strongly felt - when the Russian meteorite came in - this may be related to this asteroid, and I also thought there may be more strikes over the next months.
What I see is simple. If asteroid x hits asteroid y, the fragments will not go all over the universe. Depending upon the impact speeds, they will tend to to stay in a very similar orbit. Much like the Kreutz Sungrazers comets having similar orbits, and orbital times. This is also a good possibility, if it happened quite recently. The older the impact, the worse the Yarkovsky effect will adjust the orbits of the fragments.
All in all, I say keep an eye out. We may have a true meteorite /storm/
I just hope it's not a Tunguska event over a major city however.
This new comet for the fall, may well be one of those Kreutz comets. And I hope you are right, I hope we get some really great meteor showers out of this!
I do have to agree, we don't need another Tunguska. They are now saying this was the largest meteorite since that event. Although it has been said elsewhere, that most meteors break up over the oceans, so who knows how many we've actually encountered?
Back in the 70s something came in over the Eastern seaboard. It passed over PA, MD and NJ, and made a massive sonic boom. We felt it... it was like an airplane hit the house. When we went outside, Everyone in the neighborhood was out, looking around.
I'm looking forward to ISON personally. I can remember reading Patrick Moore's "Picture history of astronomy" Especially this particular one - [link] with that wood cut of the beautiful comet, and dreamed of seeing such. I hope now this is the one. That reminds me; I need to go to the library now. My old library still has this book in it's stock.
As for the meteor shower, it is sad we have no monitors over the great oceans to see what we miss. I would love personality to know what has come over.
You know, the 70s bolite you mention was seen by my mother. She and I never actually found out what it was, but from her stories I concluded it had to be a bolite. She spoke of how the sky just lit up, and "glowed" for a moment. I'm glad you mentioned that, for it does collaborate what she saw that time, and the trajectory does sound like something that would have passed over Kentucky. Thank you! I've passed this on to her.
[giggles] She has see several interesting things in her life; pity I never have seen such myself. Such as the ball lightning, or the man walking down the road in nothing but a shirt. [ahems]
Happy to be of help with the memories!
Thank you for the link, I did indeed find it very interesting.
My mother and I also talked of the bolite that passed over KY, NJ and such. The tail mentioned in the article can explain why mother said the sky "glowed" for several minutes (Of course, subjective time) I'm glad we finally confirmed this long-standing mystery. Now if only we could work out the time when ball lightning went though the house
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