I just KNEW someone in here would have the origin of that or the pronunciation or something.
But dang, the guy 'singing' that must've gotten into the amphetamines beforehand.
Posted on 04/14/2022 4:35:18 PM PDT by bitt
A small meteor that hit Earth in 2014 was from another star system, and may have left interstellar debris on the seafloor.
An object from another star system crashed into Earth in 2014, the United States Space Command (USSC) confirmed in a newly-released memo.
The meteor ignited in a fireball in the skies near Papua New Guinea, the memo states, and scientists believe it possibly sprinkled interstellar debris into the South Pacific Ocean. The confirmation backs up the breakthrough discovery of the first interstellar meteor—and, retroactively, the first known interstellar object of any kind to reach our solar system—which was initially flagged by a pair of Harvard University researchers in a study posted on the preprint server arXiv in 2019.
Amir Siraj, a student pursuing astrophysics at Harvard who led the research, said the study has been awaiting peer review and publication for years, but has been hamstrung by the odd circumstances that arose from the sheer novelty of the find and roadblocks put up by the involvement of information classified by the U.S. government.
The discovery of the meteor, which measured just a few feet wide, follows recent detections of two other interstellar objects in our solar system, known as ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov, that were much larger and did not come into close contact with Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
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An interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified government data reveal
By Brandon Specktor published 3 days ago
Classified data prevented scientists from verifying their discovery for 3 years.
A fireball that blazed through the skies over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was actually a fast-moving object from another star system, according to a recent memo released by the U.S. Space Command (USSC).
The object, a small meteorite measuring just 1.5 feet (0.45 meter) across, slammed into Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 8, 2014, after traveling through space at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h) — a speed that far exceeds the average velocity of meteors that orbit within the solar system, according to a 2019 study of the object published in the preprint database arXiv. .......
may have left interstellar debris on the seafloor.
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hummm ...
Isn’t that the wrong way to talk about such things.
Wouldn’t it be trans-stellar debris?
On a serious note, I’m pretty sure this has happened before.
the day of the triffids
The government always releases this chapter when they don’t want you to pay attention.
On the same page. An article with titled “The Mind-Boggling Theory That We could Be Descended From Martians.”
Cuz the universe is so full of other Hawaiian(?) names that all the easily pronouncable ones were already taken?
Diversity baby .. oy vey
“Cuz the universe is so full of other Hawaiian(?) names that all the easily pronouncable ones were already taken?”
I think it was in Full Metal Jacket as well or maybe it was the beginning of The Bird in Full Metal Jacket I can’t recall but that’s how I remember it and it might not even be that word but it sounds like that word...
the word is the bird!!! Bop-bop ah mama Oumuamua bop bop Oumuamua...
The Trashmen
with love, from klandatu!
after traveling through space at more than 130,000 mph”
‘Difficult to conceptualize. :(
How many feet-per-second is that?
On the same page. An article with titled “The Mind-Boggling Theory That We could Be Descended From Martians.”
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191,000 fps. By way of comparison, earth orbits the sun at approx. 98,266 fps. That meteorite was traveling much faster than something orbiting the sun.
Ludicrous Speed!
I just KNEW someone in here would have the origin of that or the pronunciation or something.
But dang, the guy 'singing' that must've gotten into the amphetamines beforehand.
36 miles per second.
How many parsecs a year is that?
Why would this info be considered classified for 7 or 8 years? Government secrecy in overdrive.
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