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by joanro on 15 February 2013 - 11:02
Ten ton meteorite hit a zink factory, hurting 400 people. Wonder how they weighed it before it smashed to Earth?
by zdog on 15 February 2013 - 12:02
by Two Moons on 15 February 2013 - 16:02
LOL....
They don't weigh them, they just guess.
You do realize if something big was gonna hit us they wouldn't tell us about it.
They don't weigh them, they just guess.
You do realize if something big was gonna hit us they wouldn't tell us about it.
by BabyEagle4U on 15 February 2013 - 16:02
by Two Moons on 15 February 2013 - 16:02
Yeah, seems like I heard something along those lines..
Maybe in the news?
Passing closer than many of our satellites.
Wonder what effect a collision with a satellite would have on it's trajectory?
The size of a football field.
Maybe in the news?
Passing closer than many of our satellites.
Wonder what effect a collision with a satellite would have on it's trajectory?
The size of a football field.
by joanro on 15 February 2013 - 16:02
Moons, I know 'they' don't weigh them, LOL. I was being sarcastic, but forgot the little dealybob. But there's always a comment when reporting this kind of thing, how much the object weighs, like 'they' really know. Seems as tho Russia is in the path of these things, like the one in 1908 that exploded over Siberia. That one blew down forests and made a huge crater. Could you imagine the damage if a big city was hit?
by beetree on 15 February 2013 - 17:02
It is simple enough to make an educated quess if one determines the relative atomic mass of a small amount and well, it would just be a math problem after the volume was determined. So, yeah you can get an idea how large and dense something from outer space falling to earth would be. Something like that any way. lol
by Two Moons on 15 February 2013 - 19:02
Bee,
you can measure the next one.....LOL
Nasa didn't know the bigger one was coming until amateur astronomers found it, no budget for such things they said.
you can measure the next one.....LOL
Nasa didn't know the bigger one was coming until amateur astronomers found it, no budget for such things they said.
by joanro on 15 February 2013 - 20:02
Bee, yea, they can determine the relative atomic mass of an object 22,000 miles above the earth, hurling at an astromomical speed and burning from the friction? Especially when they didn't see until the thing was already burning. And that it was the size of, let's see, a small mini van up to the size of an apartment building. LOL
by Two Moons on 15 February 2013 - 20:02
Reminds me of the movie Armageddon except we no longer have the space shuttle to fly hero's to the object, land on it, and blow it up and away from our planet.
Plus Bruce Willis is getting a little too old for the task.
Plus Bruce Willis is getting a little too old for the task.
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