Meteor striker over Russia

[jmorgan]

Bang

Puter being silly this morning, not getting a proper link. Not been paying attention to the near miss this morning, part of the same?

[jmorgan]

Manicminer said:

I thought the near miss was going to be tonight GMT approx 7pm.

There you go, me not paying attention. 7pm eh?

Saw a green streak the other night, problem was it was hard to tell how far away it was, certainly appeared to make the ground and think I could pin point it to a several square miles...... ye olde dark and location issue though.

Something like this sort of leaves you with no doubt I suppose. There are bigger things out there we miss.

[jmorgan]

Le Big Rock.... Jupiter it now seems is the culprit. And its mates, Neptune, Saturn and the school boy favourite.

Ones that are confirmed to date

At least the ones that have left a hole. Lot of water on this planet.

[jmorgan]

Depends what it is I would have thought. Would be good though. The meteor showers we get every year are just the bits left in its wake but not sure about these close ones. They do have different make up and can get pulled apart by larger bodies so back to what they are made of I suppose?

[jmorgan]

Gwagon111 said:

It is believed (by some) that something similar may have happened before. It could have been worse .

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

I posted this up earlier.
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Worldmap....

Sorted by age
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Agesort.h...

If you follow the links to some of them you may see how far research has gone.

For example
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/steinheim...

[jmorgan]

Lot of water across this planet. Surfs up.......

[jmorgan]

Speaking of which, live feed of the other one due this evening. On now.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

I think?

[jmorgan]

Could be Jupiter was the culprit then?

[jmorgan]

Art0ir said:

Simpo Two said:

Nope, Jupiter's more than 55 feet across.

Unless it's closer than we think...

ho ho.... didn't see that one coming.....

[jmorgan]

And sound travels at different speeds at different altitudes and the air temperature has some effect I believe?

Caught the end of the one on TV last night.