[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Regarding the metour over Russia....see this FR Thread for several videos:

Videos: Meteor lights up Russian skies; Update: Injuries now up over 900

Links to Hot Air on the thread.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

A hit by a celestial object, actually.

[stormhill]

As the late, great Paul Harvey used to say,

Just when you were running out of things to worry about...

[353FMG]

But, but, but, isn’t the asteroid not a result of global warming?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

NASA’s statement is a bit inaccurate. While if it just broke up on its own, in the absence of any other forces, the pieces would indeed continue on in close proximity on the same path.

But if the break up was caused by another object, or by passing near a powerful gravitational field, things might be considerably different. Especially if such an effect happened not very long ago.

For instance, if the object, with a diameter of 50 meters, collided with some other object, it might knock it, or a piece of it, in a fraction of an arcsecond different from the path of the first object.

[musicman]

"A problem that is bigger than global warming..."



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