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Asteroid 'Hit Northern Russia'
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| 10-4-2002
Posted on 10/05/2002 12:02:00 PM PDT by blam
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To: Rye
lol
To: Mulder
Isn't the "kabah" inside the Mecca mosque a black meteorite?
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posted on
10/05/2002 1:31:42 PM PDT
by
PokeyJoe
To: PatrickHenry
what things? no one was hurt.... and gravity HAPPENS, so considering..... it was fairly fortunate that no one got hit, eh? if your trying to insinuate that God, or people who belive in God are not intellegent, id like to see your plans, and then id like to see you make it happen, until then, you have no say. if you think the world makes no sense, you should change your point of view. the psychological world would refer to you as "crazy" for not being able to cope reasonably with the environment about you, and they'd be right.
To: Chad Fairbanks
when the headline reads asteroid, and the first sentence of the article says Meteorite Must be something like this:
If the object stays in space it is an asteroid or comet. If it hits the atmosphere it is a meteor. If it hits the ground it is a meteorite.
To: Mulder
Ditto!
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posted on
10/05/2002 1:37:45 PM PDT
by
reg45
To: Chad Fairbanks
I always wondered why they called them Hemmorhoids, and not Asteroids.
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posted on
10/05/2002 1:41:09 PM PDT
by
P8riot
To: PoisedWoman
What did our presdident know... and WHEN did he know it?
I AM OUTRAGED.
To: Lokibob
That's neat, thanks.
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posted on
10/05/2002 1:54:08 PM PDT
by
blam
To: PokeyJoe
"Isn't the "kabah" inside the Mecca mosque a black meteorite?" Yes, it's name is Gabriel.
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posted on
10/05/2002 1:56:35 PM PDT
by
blam
To: shadowman99
I think they mean the asteroids explode within the atmosphere due to heat, friction and pressure on the objects and many never make it to the surface.....However, larger objects can and do make it to the surface....Sometimes with cataclysmic effects...
To: RightWhale
"If the object stays in space it is an asteroid or comet. If it hits the atmosphere it is a meteor. If it hits the ground it is a meteorite." I knew you'd show up and sort out this mess. I don't think this is the one we've been expecting. (...any day now?)
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posted on
10/05/2002 2:01:50 PM PDT
by
blam
To: shadowman99
Are there any astronomers in our ranks? This stat seems very high. I would think that if 30 astronds hit with this sort of impact each year that a city would have disappeared by now.
Most of them apparently detonate high in the atmosphere which would also indicate that they're either high in water content (relatively speaking) or are rocky ice masses.
The math for the numbers is pretty odd too. If they estimate a total of 50,000 with 30 a year hitting then they'd be exhausted in 1666 years unless they're replenished by something perturbing them out of the Oort cloud or there's a hell of a lot more of them in the inner solar system...
To: Chad Fairbanks
Meteoroids and asteroids are the same thing, just the size differentiates them. There are different "standards" of size to differentiate them depending on to whom you are talking.
A meteoriod becomes a meteor when it enters Earth's atmosphere. Once it impacts, it is called a meteorite.
Here is a great image of Eros the asteroid, which is about 21 miles by 8 miles by 8 miles.
NEAR's multispectral imaging camera captured this sequence from a distance of 4620 miles (7700 km). The images of Eros were acquired every 15 degrees of rotation for one Eros "day", which is 5.27 hours long. Eros's overall shape has been compared to a boat, a shoe, a peanut, and a banana with a bite taken out of it. This sequence of images is the first to show the major geographic features of the northern and equatorial latitudes of Eros.
One of the most recent close calls occurred on March 23, 1989, when an asteroid 0.25 mile (0.4 kilometer) wide came within 400,000 miles (640,000 kilometers) of Earth. Surprised scientists estimated that Earth and the asteroid - weighing 50 million tons and traveling at 46,000 mph (74,000 kilometers per hour) -had passed the same point in space just six hours apart!
To: Mulder
How about Baghdad?
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posted on
10/05/2002 2:09:55 PM PDT
by
pankot
To: Mustang
At the risk of dating myself, I think the phrase "we're all bozos on this bus" originated with Firesign Theatre, along with "if you lived here, you'd be home by now".
To: blam
BTW, did you know the Earth actually has a second moon?
It is called Cruithne (pronounced crew-EEN-ya). It is about 3 miles across.
It also has a highly irregular orbit around the Earth defined mathimatically as a Lagrange orbit. It takes 770 years to complete the horseshoe shaped orbit around Earth.
To: blam
"Large luminous body", anyone seen Teddy Kennedy lately?
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posted on
10/05/2002 2:24:04 PM PDT
by
exnavy
To: shadowman99
That article says in the atmosphere, not on land.
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posted on
10/05/2002 2:25:56 PM PDT
by
ALS
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
The black stone is not an object of worship, The 1 Gajillion Muslims I saw clamoring over each other to kiss each other's spit on that rock could have fooled me.
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posted on
10/05/2002 2:30:03 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
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