NASA upped the estimate of how big the meteor was.The new estimate is 55 feet wide, 10,000 tons and traveling 40,000 miles per hour.Divers are searching the bottom of that lake where a big piece may have landed. (shiver)http://news.yahoo.com/russian-meteor-blast-bigger-thought-nasa-says-234920189.html
A “cool” event to observe, and the injuries were all from man-made objects, like window glass, not being hit by any particles from the meteor. Any major city in the US is FAR more dangerous than meteors, if the drivers on their cell phones don’t get you, the nuts with guns will!
Here is a comment I left elsewhere once earlier:The next exciting astronomical thing (that we know about) will be Comet PANSTARRS in early March. It will not pass closer than 1.1 AU from the Earth (an Astronomical Unit is the distance from Earth to Sun 93 million miles)On March 10 the comet should be closest to the Sun and brightest just after sunset in the West.
Chillbilly about 11 years ago
Random gunfire is much more dangerous than random asteroids.
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
NASA upped the estimate of how big the meteor was.The new estimate is 55 feet wide, 10,000 tons and traveling 40,000 miles per hour.Divers are searching the bottom of that lake where a big piece may have landed. (shiver)http://news.yahoo.com/russian-meteor-blast-bigger-thought-nasa-says-234920189.html
Dtroutma about 11 years ago
A “cool” event to observe, and the injuries were all from man-made objects, like window glass, not being hit by any particles from the meteor. Any major city in the US is FAR more dangerous than meteors, if the drivers on their cell phones don’t get you, the nuts with guns will!
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
Here is a comment I left elsewhere once earlier:The next exciting astronomical thing (that we know about) will be Comet PANSTARRS in early March. It will not pass closer than 1.1 AU from the Earth (an Astronomical Unit is the distance from Earth to Sun 93 million miles)On March 10 the comet should be closest to the Sun and brightest just after sunset in the West.
Ivan4u about 11 years ago
Not nearly as dangerous as Obama’s unregulated drones.
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 11 years ago
Safer than … the universe?