ok....
Time to don the tinfoil and ask
What are they hiding?
Why are they hiding it?
“Fireballs from Space” - sounds like the title of a great B-grade Sci-Fi movie!
My guess is the DSP satellites are slowly dieing and the next generation replacements keep getting delayed. Not a good idea letting scientists let the enemy know when one of our birds go blind!
This new administration has fine priorities. How we observe meteors is now top secret but how we gather intelligence about terrorists is now an open book. You never know when a meteorite will have some blob-like creature that can only be killed by top secret technology (we don’t want any space creatures out there to know about our technology), but we will never, ever, have to worry about terrorism!
“Zoo animals” have been around for years.
I take this as a new weapons system is ready for or is being tested.
X-51 HCM?
The real ‘Aurora’
Delta Blimp?
I’ll start worrying when Buenos Aires is destroyed by a meteor sent by large spiders!
Here’s an interesting quote from the article on what is routinely hitting our earth, and has been hitting our earth, all along for years on end...
Most “shooting stars” are caused by natural space debris no larger than peas.
But routinely, rocks as big as basketballs and even small cars crash into the atmosphere.
And then, here was an article on an asteroid that hit the earth last year..., which I bet a lot of people didn’t know about. I had not heard that an asteroid hit the earth last year... :-) But, that is, yet again, another event that happens with great regularity, I’m sure...
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The asteroid was detected by the automated Catalina Sky Survey telescope at Mount Lemmon , Ariz., on Oct. 6, 2008. Just 19 hours after it was spotted, it collided with Earth’s atmosphere and exploded 23 miles (37 kilometers) above the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan.
Because it exploded so high over Earth’s surface, no chunks of it were expected to have made it to the ground. Witnesses in Sudan described seeing a fireball, which ended abruptly.
But Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute’s Carl Sagan Center, thought it would be possible to find some fragments of the bolide. Along with Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum and students and staff, Jenniskens followed the asteroid’s approach trajectory and found 47 meteorites strewn across an 18-mile (29-km) stretch of the Nubian Desert.
“This was an extraordinary opportunity, for the first time, to bring into the lab actual pieces of an asteroid we had seen in space,” Jenniskens said.
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quoted from http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090325-asteroid-meteorites.html
Great Balls of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY