Been following the Russina Meteorite story..... find it ironic as just yesterday I read a report on how NASA was saying not to worry about the big asteroid due to fly past the earth today and that it will do no damage.... and ontop of this they reckon they know where the other 99% of near earth objects are and then boom, this unnoticed Russian one turns up.....
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279020/It-like-scene-Armageddon-movie-More-400-people-injured-buildings-smashed-meteorite-shower-hits-Russian-town-causes-panic-knocks-mobile-network.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279020/It-like-scene-Armageddon-movie-More-400-people-injured-buildings-smashed-meteorite-shower-hits-Russian-town-causes-panic-knocks-mobile-network.html)
The question begs answering, are there more on the way?
Updated Link: now 900 injured......
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How many meteors hit the earth per day?
Answer:
Several thousands. Most of them are the size of a grain of rice or smaller. A few each day may be the size of a baseball or occasionally the size of a basketball.
Once a week or so, the Earth is hit by a rock the size of a car, and once every few months, we get hit by something the size of a house. A couple of months ago, a meteor the size of a house exploded over central Indonesia; it scared a lot of folks, but apparently did no damage.
The VAST majority of these burn up completely in the atmosphere, surviving as nothing but dust. A few do make it to the Earth, often in small (fist-sized) chunks. Very few do any damage. Only a few people are known to have been hit by a meteorite; there was a boy in Germany last year who was struck in the hand by a meteorite the size of a pea.
Every few hundred years, bigger things hit the Earth, and some do a lot of damage. In 1908, a meteor or small comet exploded high in the atmosphere near a place called Tunguska, Siberia, causing an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb. 5000 years ago, a meteor struck in the Indian Ocean causing a tsunami, which may be the source of the "Great Flood" legends in Gilgamesh and Noah's Ark. 14000 years ago, something hit northern Canada causing the "Younger Dryas" mini-ice age.
It's called a "meteoroid" when it is out in space. When it enters the Earth's atmosphere and is heated to incandescence, the bright streak of light is called a "meteor".
If the object survives the fiery passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called a "meteorite".
OK Mr Mike Stenson aka, nasa, aka scientist,whats the chance of being hit by one?
Quote from: Adriaan Van Rooyen on February 17, 2013, 06:09:48 PM
OK Mr Mike Stenson aka, nasa, aka scientist,whats the chance of being hit by one?
About the same chance as the Stormers winning the Super Rugby trophy...
oi,you looking for trouble wee man...?
1 in 7,000,000,000
What are those numbers Mike S, Stormers chance of winning a trophy this season?????????
This is the asteroid,meteor section,so what netball team is the lions playing next ?????
Now Now Adriaan, don't get bitchy
Oh i am the one thats getting bitchy..... Jenny would you be so kind as to ^%&^%%#$^$ ....
To get back to the point. What are we giong to do if something the size of Joburg heads our way. Nothing........ image14 BoomSmilie_anim
That will be the day that the earth is reborn. The cycle of life.
I'm puzzled. It was T S Eliot who said "this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Yet the title of this thread suggests the end if neigh.
Eliot, a horse lover, would have been delighted that the last sound we will all hear is the whinny of a horse.
If something the size of Joburg heads this way..... will never happen ..the lions don't play in this country mate! Then on a serious note you will never know what hit you ...... well you don't have to pay taxes .....or water the garden or.....
I think mankind will destroy themselves by their own stupidity