REPORT : space rock



Kurt

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either way I didn't lose any sleep knowing full well that the Aliens in charge of this world wouldn't allow their pets to be eliminated

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

either way I didn't lose any sleep knowing full well that the Aliens in charge of this world wouldn't allow their pets to be eliminated

On second thought....you may be right on this one !!

Kurt

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Nah, we were unlucky again. As long as it didn't hurt anyone, a meteor this size slamming into or exploding over the ocean would be pretty cool.

Nah, we were unlucky again. As long as it didn't hurt anyone, a meteor this size slamming into or exploding over the ocean would be pretty cool.

And would have been pretty effective at giving this issue some much needed public (and political) attention.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Nah, we were unlucky again. As long as it didn't hurt anyone, a meteor this size slamming into or exploding over the ocean would be pretty cool.

Quote from the site : "The risk of a future impact with the object is not yet known."

Who knows, your wish could be fulfilled !!!


Cheers,

Kurt

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Nah, we were unlucky again. As long as it didn't hurt anyone, a meteor this size slamming into or exploding over the ocean would be pretty cool.

Just because this rock is bigger than the one that exploded over Tunguska, and is bigger than the one that created Meteor Crater in Arizona, it hitting the ocean wouldn't bother me at all...

'Course, I live in Denver...

;-)

But the Tunguska event was probably created by a small comet. This, at least, is the hypothesis put forward by the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei, recently deceased, in his book "Monsters in the sky", translated from the Italian edition (which I edited) by Riccardo Giacconi and published by MIT Press, I believe around 1979. I know that an Italian expedition has found a small circular lake in the area and said they would dredge its bottom to search for some rock or other materials of meteoric origin. I don't know if they have found any.
Tullio

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Wasn't the Tunguska event just an atmospheric graze? That would be much different from an impact with the ground or ocean!

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Not according to the thousands of trees felled. There is a picture of them in the book I cited. Also a great flash of light and a strong boom, according to the few eyewitnesses.

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But the Tunguska event was probably created by a small comet.

The latest I've heard is that they think it was a stony meteor that detonated about five miles up...

But the Tunguska event was probably created by a small comet.

The latest I've heard is that they think it was a stony meteor that detonated about five miles up...

In that case there should be some fragments buried, that is what the University of Rome expedition was looking for in a small lake. But I haven't heard anything about it. Maybe they are writing some paper for a peer-reviewed journal, in the academic style.
Tullio

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