Current Events > Meteor hits southeast Michigan

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFcY9rTPx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlyVjKwGOt4

Thanks Trump
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Anyone hurt?
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Doom_Art posted...

Anyone hurt?

Don't think so. Just reports of windows shaking etc etc
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It didn't hit anything, you see it burn up.
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CrimsonRage posted...

So NASA scientists can't predict meteors? I thought they could, but I guess not. So if a huge extinction level meteor came, we wouldn't know until it hit?

They mostly can. However some slip by, especially smaller ones like this.
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CrimsonRage posted...

So NASA scientists can't predict meteors? I thought they could, but I guess not. So if a huge extinction level meteor came, we wouldn't know until it hit?

NASA can track most larger bodies. Something that small is simply too small, too dark, and too close for accurate satellite tracking.

Generally speaking, if it's big enough to cause a serious catastrophe then NASA will likely see it with a decent amount of notice before impact.
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CrimsonRage posted...

So NASA scientists can't predict meteors? I thought they could, but I guess not. So if a huge extinction level meteor came, we wouldn't know until it hit?

the bigger ones are easier to see. we do know most of those.
the ones that look like that are only a few to a few dozen meters big.
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Im in southeast Michigan.
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I saw it with my own eyes. A large flash lile lightning then a loud reverberating explosion. Lile 3 loud knocks
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It just burnt up mid air
CrimsonRage posted...

So NASA scientists can't predict meteors? I thought they could, but I guess not. So if a huge extinction level meteor came, we wouldn't know until it hit?

If we can spot one, it is possible to predict its path, but the hard thing is to spot then to begin with.

Space is huge and we cant have cameras and satellites pointed 360 degrees to every direction.

So yeah, while a 100 meters meteor seems huge, compared to the size of the whole visible sky, it is like looking for one particular needle in a stack of needles.

So it is really possible for a 10 kilometer extinction rock to head to earth and it is too late when we notice it
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Space is huge and we cant have cameras and satellites pointed 360 degrees to every direction.


This seems like something that is very possible.
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So many people improperly using the term meteor.

Trump should have nuked that Meteor

OrangeShirt posted...

So many people improperly using the term meteor.

Isn't meteor correct because it burned up and didn't actually hit?

I didn't see it, but I noticed the sky get bright through my window. My sister is doing work in her house, so she has an old comforter covering her stairs and says it moved when it passed over and she heard it as well.
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Did a kid named Ness go out to investigate it overnight?
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Every year, a catastrophe-sized asteroids zips close by to Earth.

Earth is just too small, too fast to get hit by a large asteroid at any regularity. It'd be like you trying to hit a bullseye that is circling a dartboard at 1000 MPH speed, and you only get one chance a year. Yeah eventually you'll hit it, but it might take several hundred million years.

OrangeShirt posted...

So many people improperly using the term meteor.

noun: meteor; plural noun: meteors
a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light.

Sounds about right to me. It's only a meteorite if it lands. It doesn't appear to have actually hit the ground, but burned up during entry.
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