Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space....

Fox News ^ | June 12th, 2009

[TaraP]

For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere — but no longer.

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.

The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists.

The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified

[montomike]

I’ll start worrying when Buenos Aires is destroyed by a meteor sent by large spiders!

[muawiyah]

Of course not. I simply have pretty good night vision. The number of rocks hitting the atmosphere virtually dead overhead every evening and then appearing to explode is sufficient that your average watcher can see at least one an evening with a pair of binoculars.

Some of us can see them without the binoculars ~ even with urban light pollution.

Now, what is it about "explosions" that makes you think of "hearing voices"? Hmmmm! Outta' meds or what?

[SatinDoll]

Mooie - just saying...maybe.

As for me, no meds.

But if Obama keeps going the way he is, we’ll all need something to keep our spirits up. The Prez sucks.

[Star Traveler]

Here’s an interesting quote from the article on what is routinely hitting our earth, and has been hitting our earth, all along for years on end...

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Most “shooting stars” are caused by natural space debris no larger than peas.

But routinely, rocks as big as basketballs and even small cars crash into the atmosphere.

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And then, here was an article on an asteroid that hit the earth last year..., which I bet a lot of people didn’t know about. I had not heard that an asteroid hit the earth last year... :-) But, that is, yet again, another event that happens with great regularity, I’m sure...

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The asteroid was detected by the automated Catalina Sky Survey telescope at Mount Lemmon , Ariz., on Oct. 6, 2008. Just 19 hours after it was spotted, it collided with Earth’s atmosphere and exploded 23 miles (37 kilometers) above the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan.

Because it exploded so high over Earth’s surface, no chunks of it were expected to have made it to the ground. Witnesses in Sudan described seeing a fireball, which ended abruptly.

But Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute’s Carl Sagan Center, thought it would be possible to find some fragments of the bolide. Along with Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum and students and staff, Jenniskens followed the asteroid’s approach trajectory and found 47 meteorites strewn across an 18-mile (29-km) stretch of the Nubian Desert.

“This was an extraordinary opportunity, for the first time, to bring into the lab actual pieces of an asteroid we had seen in space,” Jenniskens said.

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quoted from http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090325-asteroid-meteorites.html

[TaraP]

Interesting!

I just don’t know what the purpose for the Military trying to hide all this....

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 6/11/2009. Thanks TaraP.

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[HereInTheHeartland]

“Any time I want, weather permitting, I can go lay down on the backporch, look straight up at the sky and within minutes I’ll see EXPLOSIONS.
This is an exceedingly common phenomenon.”

You need to drink better stuff!
The cheap stuff is making those fireballs appear!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Great Balls of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY