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When I saw the damage from it this morning on Drudge, I knew it was no “meteorite”.
>> 45 feet across, weighed about 10,000 tons
In thumper terms, that’s about 1,250,000 16 pound bowling balls.
Its a sobering thought that this was NOT detected untill it struck, nothing man made can hit it and that it can happen anytime and anywhere.
We may have been kept out of the loop so no panic scenarios would occur and then again I must suspect we do have either railgun or lasers that could hit it.
Russia seems to be a landing spot for these objects
Videos taken of the thing are pretty amazing.
However, they may be a bit low on their energy estimate, given they peg the sound intensity at "barely audible".
They had thought this thing was 10 tons, now 10,000 tons? Quite a difference. We are lucky it exploded at 15 miles up. They couldn’t see it because it approached Earth from the direction of the sun. The article says it is the smaller ones they can’t detect, but I have to believe they can be well larger than this and go unseen.
Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
5464 chalaza {khal'-ad-zah}
probably from 5465;; n f
AV - hail 4; 4
1) hail
from 5465...
5465 chalao {khal-ah'-o}
from the base of 5490;; v
AV - let down 6, strike 1; 7
1) to loosen, slacken, relax
2) to let down from a higher place to a lower
from the base of 5490...
5490 chasma {khas'-mah}
from a form of an obsolete prim chao (to "gape" or "yawn");; n n
AV - gulf 1; 1
1) a gaping opening, a chasm, a gulf
Cf.
What's a Chelyaba anyway?
It's a Bashkir word meaning "pit".
http://chelyabinskteaching.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-chelyaba-anyway.html
Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
5464 chalaza {khal'-ad-zah}
probably from 5465;; n f
AV - hail 4; 4
1) hail
from 5465...
5465 chalao {khal-ah'-o}
from the base of 5490;; v
AV - let down 6, strike 1; 7
1) to loosen, slacken, relax
2) to let down from a higher place to a lower
from the base of 5490...
5490 chasma {khas'-mah}
from a form of an obsolete prim chao (to "gape" or "yawn");; n n
AV - gulf 1; 1
1) a gaping opening, a chasm, a gulf
Cf.
What's a Chelyaba anyway?
It's a Bashkir word meaning "pit".
http://chelyabinskteaching.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-chelyaba-anyway.html
Hmmm.... Russian scientists have found three distinct impact sites - one in a frozen lake.
Yes, it exploded during descent, but it wasn’t disintegrated or vaporized completely. Parts of this mini-asteroid became meteorites.
This event is a blessing as it is warning, we need to develop space assets to mitigate these risks...
--From the article
So... It didn't start "traveling" until a year ago?! It was motionless all the preceding time?
Journalists! Sheesh!
Regards,
Exaggeration
It was the equivalent of a rather small modern nuke....about 20-35 times Nagasaki
But a tiny fraction of tsar bomba.....1%
Book
Another smaller fireball over California this morning.
That’s some muzzle velocity.
