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The Sierra Meteoric Blast
NBCBayArea.com ^ | updated 38 minutes ago 2012-04-23T23:45:43 | By Rob Mayeda

Posted on 04/23/2012 5:29:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 04/23/2012 5:29:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

Object the a size of a “mini-van” entered the atmosphere yesterday.


2 posted on 04/23/2012 5:30:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s exactly why I delay tax form finalization until October.


3 posted on 04/23/2012 5:32:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

Too bad it didn’t hit a Iranian nuclear facility


4 posted on 04/23/2012 5:40:12 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (We are the 53%. 47% of Americans pay no taxes; end the free ride...)
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To: Paladin2

If you could wait until after December 21st, you won’t have to worry about anything.


5 posted on 04/23/2012 6:00:42 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: BenLurkin

“also known as a bolide roughly the size of a washing machine”

I know exactly what happened!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_jLpd-_gdY
(action begins at 50 seconds.)


6 posted on 04/23/2012 6:06:06 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: BenLurkin

This morning I saw coverage that tracked the event based on the locations of 911 calls.

Due east from the SF bay area. South along the Nevada side of the Sierras. Due west to the Greater Los Angeles area.

Two sharp turns in a “meteor” track.

Nothing like this has been observed since 1908...


7 posted on 04/23/2012 6:08:07 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void

Did the last turn of the meteor put it on an intercept course for Area 51? Maybe it landed there? Those fast movers really move fast ya know!


8 posted on 04/23/2012 6:19:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: null and void
Two sharp turns in a “meteor” track.

Got to watch them meteors that do sharp turns to bleed off speed :^)

9 posted on 04/23/2012 6:27:38 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: null and void
Nothing like this has been observed since 1908...

You bet.

I missed it, and would have paid money to see/hear it.

Some folks said it was the loudest thing they ever heard. One guy described it as sounding like a rocket launch.

One can just imagine an asteroid the size of Dodger stadium coming in.

10 posted on 04/23/2012 6:32:15 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Hmmmm. From what I recall of the map it blew past Area 51 and ended up pointed sorta at Edwards...


11 posted on 04/23/2012 6:38:55 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: dragnet2

This one and Tunguska are the only two I’ve ever heard of that made sharp turns.


12 posted on 04/23/2012 6:41:01 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: BenLurkin

I didn’t hear a thng.


13 posted on 04/23/2012 6:44:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: null and void

There are images of it, if you haven’t seen them.


14 posted on 04/23/2012 6:44:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Images of the turns?


15 posted on 04/23/2012 6:47:11 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void

No, the meteor.


16 posted on 04/23/2012 6:54:53 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: The Cajun

it’s possible to turn, once some of the meteor has broken/burnt off. You are assuming the meteor is made of a solid substance, whereas it probably is an amalgam.

Under stress, it can break, or burn off at different rates, which change the shape of the rock/meteor. Once this occurs, it *probably* will change direction — by how much is determined by the shape of what’s left.

Keep in mind, even it it was an “alien” or earth craft, you can’t change direction very fast (laws of physics at work here) and drag, of course. So unless it’s “magic” you won’t see 90 degree turns or such nonsense.


17 posted on 04/23/2012 7:28:46 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain
Didn't say 90 degree turns, was talking about turns much like the space shuttle makes to bleed of speed in the atmosphere.
18 posted on 04/23/2012 7:48:58 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

Yeah, the shuttle has very small movable surfaces, and rockets to enable it to change it’s trajectory. A much bigger trajectory change can occur when a alrge part of *something* breaks off!

There are plenty of mysteries win the universe without creating them.

There is a big difference between what we know, what we want to know, and what we can ever know.

If you want some *speculation*....here’s some..... Let’s see...NK rocket rails in 3rd stage. US has recently tested high altitude intercept of ballistic missiles over the pacific.....NK is *really* mad about the failure of the rocket (instead of embarrassed). Hmmmmmm????


19 posted on 04/23/2012 7:54:13 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: BenLurkin

The values used this story, kg and km/s, are all in metric system. The asteroid burned up in the United States; the experts, at UNVR and NASA, are employed in U.S. government jobs; the journalists work for an American company; that company transmits its story over American taxpayer-owned frequencies or over the American taxpayer-owned electric-system grid by cable-systems.
If we don’t want our American way to disappear, then let’s force all these American government agencies and American companies to speak American: inches, feet, yards, miles; pint, quart, gallon; ounce, pound, ton.


20 posted on 04/23/2012 8:20:52 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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