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Old 02-15-2013, 02:10 PM
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This one caught me by surprise

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Old 02-15-2013, 02:13 PM
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Another good one

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Old 02-15-2013, 02:16 PM
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Global Warming is causing all these Meteors.

WTF. CNN Anchor Blames Asteroid on Global Warming? Guest, Bill Nye - YouTube
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sounded more like a Korean missile gone off course
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at 33,000 mph anything the size above a few yards has got some energy. Anyone want to crack open your physics book and determine what the energy produced of an object weighing 10 tons and traveling 33,000mph produces.
By my math, 9071 kg at 14752 m s-1 should be 1.97 TJ of kinetic energy, or about 471 tons HE equivalent using wiki's 4.184 GJ ton-1 conversion. Or about 1/50 of a hiroshima - or 1/19000 of a B53.
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Fascinating.

I can only imagine what the one that took out the dinosaurs looked like.
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Fascinating.

I can only imagine what the one that took out the dinosaurs looked like.


Off to that great gig in the sky..
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That was pretty cool.

6 times. wow

Call me spoiled, but can i get better cg?
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the next time, I hope the Moon is there to "take one for the team". It owes us for being created by one huge-ass meteor....
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Spectacular! Can only imagine how many unknown grenade over the oceans or never captured on vid.
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I don't think anyone found the one that made that mile wide crater in New Mexico.
The theory is that it vaporized on impact
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The theory is that it vaporized on impact
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I don't think anyone found the one that made that mile wide crater in New Mexico.


but the real problem is I think that crater is in Arizona. that's why they didn't find anything in New Mexico. my mistake

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