Posted on 02/15/2013 2:51:13 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
WOW, you have GOT to watch those videos, that is amazing!
The sunlight effect as it flew by?? I never guessed that, it was brighter than the sun when it was heating up!
WOW, you have GOT to watch those videos, that is amazing!
The sunlight effect as it flew by?? I never guessed that, it was brighter than the sun when it was heating up!
these things move way too fast for an intercept - though dont be surprised if in the coming weeks we find that te object was photographed / filmed by a geo stationary sattelite
If they can show film of thunderstoms and sprites from space, they have this on film
The missile intercept story is quoted from ‘Russian military’ source in Russia Today, their biggest internet news site I think
It’s at the link, but not confirmed of course
They used LASERS
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Watching the video from the vehicle dashcam...
There is NOOOO earthly defense mechanism available when this badboy is tracking inbound...
Jus' say'n...
Those videos are incredible, if true (I don’t doubt RR, just the rooskies).
I was listening to NPR this morning. They said this was “not relatedd” to the meteor coming close to the earth today. Let me get this straight: I’m 59 years old. No meteor of this size has hit the earth within my lifetime. And the day a huge meteor is passing between the earth and our geosynchronous satellites and I am LITERALLY looking for any news about it actually hitting the earth, a large meteor (allbeit smaller) collides with the earth, doing significant damage, limited only by location, and it is NOT RELATED to the big one?
When I became a Christian in 1981 I stopped believing in coincidences. And rightly so.
NPR really is lunacy.
I dont trust news sources that dont know the difference between a meteoroid, a meteor, and a meteorite.
And don’t even get me started on AK-47 “clips”. ;-)
We may discover more about this when things settle down, but apparently this meteor was coming from the opposite direction to the one we all know about.
I know, it seems crazy, right?
I immediately made the connection between this meteorite and it’s big brother coming by later. If this one hit the Earth I can see it’s big killer brother doing the same.
I believe the NASA channel will be tracking the big asteroid starting at 2 pm EST.
Somebody call Harry Stamper on the white courtesy phone please.
5.56mm
The entire story is possible ~ but the real question is did they hit it.
Let us turn to lazmataz for his opinion.
So, laz, would you hit it?
The entire story is possible ~ but the real question is did they hit it.
Let us turn to lazmataz for his opinion.
So, laz, would you hit it?
I luv “unconfirmed sources” for major points of a story.
Its much more likely the meteor exploded or broke apart due to the heat and violence of its entry into the atmosphere.
Russian sir defenses are currently at some version of the S-300PMU3 / S-400 Triumf / SA-21 Growler systems. According to a 5-6 year out-of-date article, they could intercept missiles moving at mach 14. or 4.9km/s.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/s-400.htm
From the article: “Their exceptionally high accuracy is ensured by the missile's main secret, the so-called transverse control engine, which rules out misses during the final approach trajectory. The transverse control engine is still without parallel in the world.”
“The radar's range is up to 600 km for targets flying between 40-75,000 m, 400 km for targets at 20,000 m, 300 km for targets at 10,000 m, and at least 65 km for targets flying at 500 m.”
So if the report turns out to be correct, we could assume that more than one missile was fired; more likely missiles from each category were launched to insure a hit.
Russian almost always shoot first and ask question later.
I do not doubt that they launched, whether the missiles hit or not is another question. But it should have been possible, since meteors do not have counter measures.
I think the worKing concept with NIKE was to explode the interceptor in the path of the missile and let the faster pRojectile run into the shock wave. Kind of like a spike strip in the sky to disable a racing “car.”
We may discover more about this when things settle down, but apparently this meteor was coming from the opposite direction to the one we all know about.
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