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Apr 16, 2010 8:42:36 GMT -6
Post by Wrennie on Apr 16, 2010 8:42:36 GMT -6
Ker Than
for National Geographic News
Published April 15, 2010
A large meteor blazed across the midwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night.
Igniting over Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri around 10:15 p.m., local time, the fireball briefly turned night to green-tinged day and unleashed a sonic boom heard for hundreds of miles around.
Based on video of the fireball, astronomer Mark Hammergren thinks the meteoroid—the space rock that causes the meteor, or fireball—may have been up to six feet (1.8 meters) wide and weighed roughly a thousand pounds (453 kilograms) or more.
"One of the misconceptions about bright meteors is that they're due to very tiny objects," said Hammergren, of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, who didn't catch the fireball sky show himself.
But "if something is bright enough to light up the sky like daytime and cause sonic booms throughout the entire area, it's big. It was major," he said. "If it was daytime, people would have undoubtedly seen smoke trails."
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Apr 16, 2010 10:25:01 GMT -6
Post by jerseycub on Apr 16, 2010 10:25:01 GMT -6
Lot of crazy stuff going on around the world Earthquakes, Volcanic eruptions, and now this meteor. Anyone study Nostradamus? 2012 has some strong significances.
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Apr 16, 2010 11:27:33 GMT -6
Post by Sonya on Apr 16, 2010 11:27:33 GMT -6
My uncle Brian lives in Madison (WI) and he was lucky enough to see it. Didn't know what it was at the time though.. JC, I've read some Nostradamus--and watched the History channel during armageddon week. Was enough to make me not sleep well...  |
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Apr 16, 2010 11:35:57 GMT -6
Post by jerseycub on Apr 16, 2010 11:35:57 GMT -6
My uncle Brian lives in Madison (WI) and he was lucky enough to see it. Didn't know what it was at the time though.. JC, I've read some Nostradamus--and watched the History channel during armageddon week. Was enough to make me not sleep well... I'm sorry spawnya I wasn't meaning to scare anyone,  just trying to get a rise out of a few of our Phoram Phamily... was really not serious bout the whole thing.   |
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Apr 16, 2010 20:35:41 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 20:35:41 GMT -6
I, for one, feel that it is very strange that ever since they have powered up and are running the Haldron Collider - that the world has had an unusual number of earthquakes/volcanoes. Am I just being paranoid? Remember - the "powers that be" were scared that this contrapion could (in theory) create a miniature black hole IN the earth itself.... Makes one wonder.... ? But, then again - we ARE getting closer to 2012 - the ancient Mayans predicted that the world will end on Dec 21, 2012 which just happens to be my 60th birthday.... |
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Apr 16, 2010 21:12:05 GMT -6
Post by mogarden on Apr 16, 2010 21:12:05 GMT -6
I'm afraid I have some bad news guys, (and I'm not even Mayan) my calendar ends on Dec 31, 2010!
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Apr 17, 2010 4:19:08 GMT -6
Post by Rita on Apr 17, 2010 4:19:08 GMT -6
I dont believe in any of it to be honest ... Just like global warming  Ummm that Ice age was not always here  its just heating up to what its suppose to be .. And if ya live everyday like it was your last ... you will have nothing to regret when something Does happen ... I heard a few years back when the tsunami hit it knocked the earth off its rotation a bit ... weather it be true or not ... I have no idea but could be a good reason for the more violent storms  |
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Apr 17, 2010 17:00:28 GMT -6
Post by jerseycub on Apr 17, 2010 17:00:28 GMT -6
Actually the earth has changed tilt more then normal, by a few degrees so you could be on to something. Another thing that I have noticed and always felt since I was a teenager...and that is the space program, what I mean is. Since we have been sending rockets into orbit our seasons have been going threw a slow change in climate. It always seamed that when ever we would send a rocket into space we would have stormy weather for a period of time there after. I do believe it has caused some change in the atmosphere, whether that be the ozone layer or what ever. As far as the occurrences of late Earth quakes, Tsunami, Volcanic eruptions. These are natural occurrences that the earth has been experiencing for thousands of years, so as Rita said live every day as if it were your last and that way when it does come you wouldn't have missed anything.  I almost forgot. Has anyone watched the movie (The Fourth Kind)? Tell ya what if you have, I have had an Owl out side of our bedroom hoot for many years. And that's no bull. |
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Apr 18, 2010 6:22:19 GMT -6
Post by Pharmer Phil on Apr 18, 2010 6:22:19 GMT -6
I'm afraid I have some bad news guys, (and I'm not even Mayan) my calendar ends on Dec 31, 2010! Oh for the LOVE of God we are doomed...  seriously tho Pholks...anyone my age can tell ya that the END of the world has been predicted for certain dates...numerable times..and, we are still here... Not saying it can't/won't or could happen, and most likely will someday... Love, live and laugh as if everyday was your last...cause it could be for Many reasons |
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Apr 18, 2010 7:46:42 GMT -6
Post by Wrennie on Apr 18, 2010 7:46:42 GMT -6
I'm afraid I have some bad news guys, (and I'm not even Mayan) my calendar ends on Dec 31, 2010! Oh for the LOVE of God we are doomed... Oh Nooooo! Mine too! I remember having an end of the world party in school in the 70's when it was gonna end. |
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Apr 18, 2010 15:06:47 GMT -6
Post by Sonya on Apr 18, 2010 15:06:47 GMT -6
JC, you didn't scare me!! Watchin' the phreakin' history channel did! That and  ! Whatever happens, whenever it happens, will happen.  |
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Apr 18, 2010 15:09:51 GMT -6
Post by Sonya on Apr 18, 2010 15:09:51 GMT -6
I've not seen the Fourth Kind yet, want to...but think I'll be watchin' it by myself!! My husband doesn't like alien movies...  |
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Apr 18, 2010 15:33:50 GMT -6
Post by Rita on Apr 18, 2010 15:33:50 GMT -6
I've not seen the Fourth Kind yet, want to...but think I'll be watchin' it by myself!! My husband doesn't like alien movies... I was NOT impressed by that movie at all actually didn't like it at all |
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Apr 20, 2010 7:47:34 GMT -6
Post by jerseycub on Apr 20, 2010 7:47:34 GMT -6
I've not seen the Fourth Kind yet, want to...but think I'll be watchin' it by myself!! My husband doesn't like alien movies... I was NOT impressed by that movie at all actually didn't like it at all Ruth didn't like it ether Rita, The reason I mentioned it was because of the emphasis that was placed on the owl. I tell ya there has been one outside our bedroom every summer for the last five or six years, and one night about three in the morning I saw someone or something standing in our bedroom doorway. I jumped up put my arm across Ruth to protect her and reached for my gun, buy that time it was gone. And I never found anyone. |
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Apr 21, 2010 2:54:41 GMT -6
Post by jack on Apr 21, 2010 2:54:41 GMT -6
Gidday Another thing that I have noticed and always felt since I was a teenager...and that is the space program, what I mean is. Since we have been sending rockets into orbit our seasons have been going threw a slow change in climate. It always seamed that when ever we would send a rocket into space we would have stormy weather for a period of time there after. I do believe it has caused some change in the atmosphere, whether that be the ozone layer or what ever. . Methinks the weather has been changing for a hellava long time. People used to blame the nuclear testing, before that they blamed the heavey artilery during the wars, and before that they blamed the steam engine and way back they were blaming the test throwing of the boomerang. |
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Apr 22, 2010 6:43:41 GMT -6
Post by jerseycub on Apr 22, 2010 6:43:41 GMT -6
And now it's COW FARTS!!!  |
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Apr 23, 2010 4:29:58 GMT -6
Post by jack on Apr 23, 2010 4:29:58 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey do your cow farts cause problems too?
Silly buggers down know anything. Everything that lives dies, cows eat only grass, or at least down here they do, so any carbon they fart out has had to have come from the grass, and the grass has got it from the atmosphere but also put a bit into the soil as well so the result of grassland farming is actually less carbon in the atmosphere.
When you sday this they turn around and say, yes but the fart carbon is mainly methane but methane is the gas of decomposition so there is less methane going up from living cows than the rotting fauna and flora in a rain forrest.
Pack of idiots Eh!
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Apr 23, 2010 5:15:59 GMT -6
Post by Rita on Apr 23, 2010 5:15:59 GMT -6
COW FARTS OK not that long ago I was watching a program think it was Dirty Jobs .. they had this High tech barn and they would somehow contain the Methane and use it to power the whole farm .. which I thought was total Genius !!! they Used everything on this farm and then of course they would turn it all back into the land .. I will try and find it online |
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Apr 23, 2010 5:22:31 GMT -6
Post by Rita on Apr 23, 2010 5:22:31 GMT -6
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Apr 23, 2010 5:47:17 GMT -6
Post by jerseycub on Apr 23, 2010 5:47:17 GMT -6
What about the oil rig that just blew up and is spewing oil by the thousands of gallons into the ocean. And Obama wants to build more along the coast from Maryland to Florida. Cow farts!! I said that as a joke because I definitely can't see how an animals expelling of gas will harm anything, it's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years, and that's small potatoes compared to a Dino Fart!! and there were thousands of them before cows. How many oil rigs were there then? And was Fred and Barney Driving cars?  Oh yes It was a meteor that caused the extinction of the Dinosaurs. |
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just trying to get a rise out of a few of our Phoram Phamily... was really not serious bout the whole thing. 
its just heating up to what its suppose to be .. 
