NASA reveals what exploded over Vermont scary to say the lea

What exploded over Vermont last weekend was estimated to be equivalent to 440 pounds of TNT...........the scary part is the size and mass of the object that rocked part of the State was only 10 lbs weight and 6 inches in size. Oh and it never hit the earth and was about 30 miles up when it exploded. Now I can believe what they say was huge that did in the dinosaurs

We're in big trouble if a really big one finds us............again pleasant dreams

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...loded-over-vermont-this-week/ar-BB1evddY

We're in big trouble if a really big one finds us............again

As screwed up as this country (world?) is right now, it might be an improvement.

Interesting read though.

F=MV^2. When the V is 12 miles per second, it doesn't take much M to F up your day.

Fixed.

I remember vaguely a IMO useful example, which would you rather be struck by ( the numbers here are out of thin air, but the intended point remains valid I believe),
which would you rather be struck by, 100,000 ton ocean freighter going 25mph, or a 100,000lb Concorde jet doing 1500 mph?

There has got to be a little more to the story than just your ordinary average little meteorite created a huge blast hitting the earth's atmosphere. Meteorites, chunks of asteroids and even human made space debris bigger than the rock in question hit our atmosphere every day.
In fact, I have a 6" meteorite that weighs around 10# here on display at my house and I'm not aware it made headlines when it made its way here?
What was unique about this one that made it explode with such force? Is there an angle where it hit the atmosphere "just right" that created this phenomena?

Yours (a nice one) looks like iron which partially melts on its way down, where a rocky meteor is probably more likely to explode.

42.000 miles per hour (19 kilometers per second).

Stuff in low earth orbit is moving at 7.8km/s. This was moving a bit over twice as fast as that. And probably came in at a steeper angle too.

big-badda-boom

It is all about the total energy transferred to the atmosphere and how fast. Just like your car, you can stop it basically instantly from 100 mph by hitting a solid mountain cliff and it will cause great destruction to the car or you can disapate that same energy with the little bitty brake pads against the rotors more slowly and nothing gets harmed except some very tiny amount of pad and rotor wear and some heat released into the atmosphere, the same amount of energy is dissipated either way. If the rock hits the earth directly at 20 miles per second it will make a much larger explosion than the same size mass traveling 1/2 the speed and gently easing into the atmosphere at an angle. The way stuff is just flying around in the galaxy something very small could hit the earth and cause major destruction. They say the earth is flying around at thousands of miles per hour relative to the sun, something very small traveling equally fast in the opposite direction could hit with some serious energy and would be much harder to detect ahead of time than a large object traveling relatively slow with the same amount of energy.

Its also about the time of day the meteor arrives, in that a daylight explosion is likely noticed visually by very few.

Thank you. I stand corrected.

I can't wait for the conspiracy theories to start !!!

Putin sent a drone to take out Joe, Reagans Star Wars system took the drone out
Ask and you will receive

The Yellowstone Caldera will get us first.......

Wait till all the oil is sucked out of the earth and then see what happens!

Check this movie out:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7737786/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Mike.