Asteroid (Page 13)

2nd large meteor in 6 weeks. – As if the world wasn’t already dangerous enough: A small asteroid or meteor entered earth’s atmosphere overthe western US Wednesday night, traveling at a surprisinglyhigh speed of about a hundred thousand miles an hour.Theobject exploded with the force of 0.5 to 1 kiloton of TNT.It was so bright that it turned the sky blue. Shock wavesshook the ground from Colorado to Utah when it exploded. Theexplosion took place just after midnight in the area.Although the Leonid meteor shower is underway, the objectwas not part of it.

Six hours after the fireball, noctilucent clouds appeared inthe dawn sky. There had been no reported rocket launches,which may mean that the clouds were connected with the meteor.
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On October 8, an asteroid exploded over Indonesia with the force of a small atomic bomb. This is the same day that earthquakes struck the area. The detonation took place twelve miles up and caused no damage on the ground, but had the object struck the surface it could have easily obliterated a city. Despite the fact that it was nine feet across, the asteroid was not detected at all prior to its entry into our atmosphere. Last week, another substantial asteroid flew past us between the earth and the moon, and was not detected until hours prior to its closest approach. Since July, large impacts have been recorded on Jupiter, in one of the rings of Saturn and possibly on Venus.read more

An asteroid passed between the earth and the moon on Friday, but NASA didn’t find out about it until Thursday (or if they did, they didn’t tell us). If it had impacted, it could have destroyed a major city. Maybe we’d get better information if some of our scientists were honest about what’s really going on out there.

Msn.com spotted a Twitter on Friday from a member of NASA’s Asteroid Watch Team that said, “That’s slightly closer than the orbit of our moon.” Our so-called Asteroid Watch Team isn’t doing much careful “watching!”
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First, something enormous strikes Jupiter. Then a huge spot appears on Venus. Now, something has smashed through Saturn’s F ring. Is our solar system under bombardment by an asteroid swarm? So far, nobody is sure. We just hope whatever it is doesn’t hit the earth next!

The Discover website reports that the Cassini satellite, which has been orbiting Saturn for 5 years, has sent us an image of what looks like a object lodged in one of the planet’s thinner rings. Let’s hope that we here on earth don’t have to start ducking soon.

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