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What object is 55 feet wide, weighs 10,000 tons and crashes into the Earth once every 100 years?
You should be thinking about the meteorite that plummeted into Russia and injured nearly 1000 people on Friday. This large impact occurred the same day an unrelated asteroid was supposed to pass close by the Earth.
Quick Facts from NASA
** The meteorite was brighter than the sun.
** The meteorite was traveling at about 44,000mph(18 kilometer per second).
** Preliminary data shows that this meteorite was not related to the 2012 DA14 asteroid that flew by Earth shortly after this event...and we all believe this.
The Impact Videos
Dashboard cameras are very popular is Russia so this entire event was caught on camera. Loud Sound Warning
So do you believe this event was related to 2012 DA14 asteroid? If not what should we do about events like this in the future?
Sunday Feb-17-2013
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Nick A.
Tuesday Feb-19-2013
I think the Universe is trying to encourage us to spend more on space :D
That's one thing that concerns me about the Moon...it'd be fun to go for a jaunt up the Montes Jura, but it'd really suck to take a micrometeorite to the head!
Hopefully Moon helmets are like this:
http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2012/06/2012-06-14-trollhunter-2.jpg