"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A fireball lit up skies across Northeast Ohio Tuesday morning after a seven-ton asteroid entered the atmosphere and broke apart over Medina County, NASA confirmed.
"The space agency said the meteor was first detected at 8:57 a.m. off Lake Erie near Lorain. It traveled more than 34 miles through the atmosphere before breaking up, with some fragments falling to the ground."
Admittedly, 7 tons is pretty small but because KE=1/2mv**2 and anything hitting our atmosphere is moving at 25,000 mph, the energy is truly frighteningly stupendous.
On the plus side, look for burned rocks in your back yard. If they are magnetic, even better. These are valuable if authenticated. If you think you hit pay rock, call your nearest university geology department. They want to check it for residual radiation and they can tell you if you got lucky.
Completely off-topic... Are you still looking for a computer with a serial port? You were having issues with CAD/CNC if I remember.
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Such a bolide appearing the night he was born was responsible for Tecumseh receiving the name, "Panther Going Across" (Tecumseh does fall more trippingly from the tongue, of course) and that gave him the ability to foresee things. Supposedly he predicted the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 by traveling throughout the Mississippi-Missouri/ Ohio River drainages giving a bundle of sticks with instructions on how to use them to predict a sign from the Great Spirit. When the various chiefs used up all but one stick, the instructions were to cut it into seven pieces and burn one each night until they were all gone. Then they were to wait for a sign that was unmistakable, Considering that one of the series of quakes between December 16, 1811 through February 9, 1812 supposedly rang church bells in Boston, it would be hard to consider an 8 magnitude quake as anything but (not that the tribes rose up in unity with Tecumseh).
ReplyDeleteWow - a 98 million grain bullet with 300 billion foot pounds of muzzle energy! Glad its aim was off...
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