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Air Force remains silent after huge meteor hits near US military base
http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 8/3/18

Posted on 08/03/2018 5:13:30 PM PDT by BBell

A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.

Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.

Mr. Kristensen argues it’s concerning there was no public warning from the US government about the incident.

“Had it entered at a more perpendicular angle, it would have struck the earth with significantly greater force,” he writes on Business Insider.

Mr Kristensen points to the example of the Chelyabinsk meteor, a 20-metre space rock that exploded in the air over Russia without warning on the 15th of February 2013.

It was the size of a house, brighter than the sun and visible up to 100 kilometres away.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Military/Veterans; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: airforce; astronomy; catastrophism; greenland; holocene; meteor; meteors; nasa; nato; pleistocene; science; thuleairbase; usmilitarybase; youngerdryas
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To: BBell

I guess all the dinosaurs in Greenland are now extinct.


41 posted on 08/03/2018 6:26:39 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (A woman's right to choose: except for rape, she can choose NOT to have sex.)
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To: Williams
Good looking out. A when a meteor hits the Earth it becomes a ‘’meteorite''.
42 posted on 08/03/2018 6:28:25 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Moonman62
Smaller than the 2.8 kt that exploded over Germany on June 21.

Thanks for posting the site.

43 posted on 08/03/2018 6:32:12 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Time to BLOAT again.)
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To: BBell

That’s my understanding. ;-D


44 posted on 08/03/2018 6:33:24 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: PLMerite

Thule...reminds me of that joke I once heard:

A US Air Force C-141 is scheduled to leave Thule Air Base, Greenland at midnight. During the pilot’s preflight check, he discovers that the latrine holding tank is still full from the last flight. So a message is sent to the base and an airman who was off duty is called out to take care of it.

The young man finally gets to the air base and makes his way to the aircraft, only to find that the latrine pump truck has been left outdoors and is frozen solid, so he must find another one in the hangar, which takes even more time. He returns to the aircraft and is less than enthusiastic about what he has to do

Nevertheless, he goes about the pumping job deliberately, carefully, and slowly, so as not to risk criticism later. As he’s leaving the plane, the pilot stops him and says, “Son, your attitude and performance has caused this flight to be late and I’m going to personally see to it that you are not just reprimanded but punished.”

Shivering in the cold, his task finished, he takes a deep breath, stands up tall and says, “Sir, with all due respect, I’m not your son; I’m an Airman in the United States Air Force. I’ve been in Thule, Greenland, for 11 months without any leave, and reindeers’ bottoms are beginning to look pretty good to me. I have one stripe, it’s two-thirty in the morning, the temperature is 40 degrees below zero, and my job here is to pump sh*t out of an aircraft. Now just exactly what form of punishment did you have in mind?”


45 posted on 08/03/2018 6:34:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: AndyJackson

And per the article, 24.4 km/s = 24,500 mi/hr. That’s some serious KE going on. Thanks for the math. That’s the first thing I do when figures are quoted in a write up. Many times quoted numbers are bogus.


46 posted on 08/03/2018 6:36:14 PM PDT by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Roberts)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Oh, so perhaps the report wasn’t all on the level then.


47 posted on 08/03/2018 6:38:54 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: GingisK

Any idea where the Russian depository is? Or the ChiComs for that matter.


48 posted on 08/03/2018 6:49:14 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Right Wing Assault

They “said” he died April 13th, .... but Mel’s hope.....


49 posted on 08/03/2018 7:05:22 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Larry Lucido

50 posted on 08/03/2018 7:26:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EMI_Guy
"And per the article, 24.4 km/s = 24,500 mi/hr."

I read the article and didn't see that quoted, which is good, because it would be wrong. 24km per second = 53,591 MPH.

51 posted on 08/03/2018 7:31:28 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: PLMerite

Intentional miss. A message. Put the Bible back.


52 posted on 08/03/2018 7:35:33 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: BBell
"...an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base..."

I thought Fox News was an American media company. Why are they reporting distances and measurements in metric?

Do we officially speak Euro now?

53 posted on 08/03/2018 8:45:35 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: AndyJackson
...assuming my arithmetic is correct works out to be about 28,000kgs or 28 metric tons. If this were a sphere of solid iron it would be a diameter of just shy of 2 m.

Can you state that in American, or is that considered un-pc these days?

54 posted on 08/03/2018 9:04:39 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

28 metric tons is pretty, close to 28 tons, and 2m is 6.6 ft.


55 posted on 08/03/2018 9:07:31 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Haiku Guy
...a relative speed of 24,000 m/s.

What's that in American?

(sorry, I don't speak Euro)

56 posted on 08/03/2018 9:08:29 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: AndyJackson
28 metric tons is pretty, close to 28 tons, and 2m is 6.6 ft.

Thank you! I feel so un-hip, not being to speak Euro, and all.

Being a knuckle dragging 'Murican is just so embarrassing!

57 posted on 08/03/2018 9:21:14 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; zeestephen; BenLurkin

That’s a big kaboom. There was a detectable impact in Greenland sometime in the 20th century, don’t force me to look it up, because I will.

Air Force says no damage from Greenland meteor
Washington Examiner | 2-3-2018 | Travis J. Tritten
Posted on 8/3/2018 9:23:45 PM by waterhill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3676366/posts


58 posted on 08/04/2018 12:48:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Air Force says no damage from Greenland meteor”

Ya know - 9/10’s of Greenland could be gone - wiped out, and they could STILL say this.


59 posted on 08/04/2018 1:36:33 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: BBell

Somebody had to say it.

60 posted on 08/04/2018 2:29:04 AM PDT by McGruff
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