Posted on 08/19/2013 7:41:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Some of the asteroid's remnants crashed to the ground, but hundreds of tons of dust remained in the atmosphere. A team led by NASA Goddard atmospheric physicist Nick Gorkavyi, who is from Chelyabinsk, wondered if it was possible to track the cloud using NASA's Suomi NPP satellite.
"Indeed, we saw the formation of a new dust belt in Earth's stratosphere, and achieved the first space-based observation of the long-term evolution of a bolide plume," Gorkavyi said in a statement.
Initial measurements 3.5 hours after the meteor explosion showed the dust 25 miles high in the atmosphere, speeding east at 190 mph.
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Between this, Tunguska, and the Siberian Traps, it would seem Nature has it in for Rodina.
Uh Oh. Dust blocking out the heat of the Sun. Here comes the new Ice Age.
Must be caused by the attraction of meteors to humans.
Oh no. Look for the warmists to justify their faulty theories now.
They can blame the current cooling on this and still claim there models are good.
Gore-bull Climate Warming Change Alert!
Uh Oh. Dust blocking out the heat of the Sun. Here comes the new Ice Age.
Must be caused by the attraction of meteors to humans.
Global warming caused the atmosphere to expand and thus causing earth to pull in more rocks from space...
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