[cogitator]

I hope there will be some pictures of the Ethiopian volcano soon; this is plate tectonics in real-time.

My question on the second item; what if, instead of being 2-5 meters in diameter, the object had been 200-500 meters in diameter, with the same timing between discovery (the day before) and impact? What would world governments have done (and let's assume the same location scenario)?

[tutstar]

pics would be interesting for sure

[cogitator]

** ping **

[MeanWestTexan]

Wormwood

[Robert A Cook PE]

A collision that with an object that large (up to 500 meters diameter) would be more immediately noticed (and demonstrated) by the EMP and seismic shock of the fireball - because it would penetrate the atmosphere easily. (Rocket parts and machinery parts larger than 5 foot usually hit the ground as solids)

Outside help? Like a earthquake, tsunami or volcano - how effective the assistance would be would depend on who was hit. A third world dictatorship steals the aid, a European-US democracy sends the aid, an Islamic/communist dictatorship prevents the aid.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering.

“The asteroid exploded with the energy of around one kiloton, equal to the power of a small nuclear bomb. Infrasound detector arrays in Kenya also detected a sound wave from the direction of the expected impact corresponding to the energy of 1.1-2.1 kilotons of TNT.”

[bayliving]

The wife and I were in Annapolis for "First Night" celebrations New Years Eve of 2003? I think. While waiting to catch the bus back to where we parked I happened to look up and saw a VERY LARGE ROCK pass just outside of our atmosphere. At least it looked like an asteroid and it was moving FAST!!!

I pointed it out to others in line so I was not the only one to see it. It was high enough up that it didn't light but it was large enough to be visible from the ground at night.

I never did hear anything about it from the press and I just can't help but feel that we somehow were spared a very bad new years morning of 2004.

[Deaf Smith]

"What would world governments have done"

A rapid pull out of all UN Troops.

[43north]

[What would world governments have done (and let’s assume the same location scenario)?]

With a rock that size the best thing the governments could do would be to advise everyone to place their heads firmly between their knees and kiss their butts goodbye.

[wbill]

Hopefully, world gov’ts would have done nothing. I’d imagine that the resulting panic would have a more devestating affect than the actual metor strike.

[RightWhale]

Several fireballs and bolides lately:

“Roman Piffl sends this report from Slovakia: “Last night, a very bright Taurid fireball streaked over the northern horizon of Marianka near our capital city Bratislava.” He and colleagues Ivan Majchrovic and Tomas Maruska captured the meteor in this 30 second exposure”

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[SunkenCiv]

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[LTCJ]

Interesting. I used photos from this satellite to solve the mystery of an aircraft/weather encounter. The sequence of photos showed a huge and record-breaking thunderhead that boiled up from below and “swallowed” the aircraft. had it not been for the satellite photos we never would have truly know what caused the incident.