4 ms·
Bolides will very rarely hit a city precisely, especially in the periods where cities were small and not sprawling. Moreover, they usually fly tangentially and
by thriftwy 5y ago
Bolides will very rarely hit a city precisely, especially in the periods where cities were small and not sprawling. Moreover, they usually fly tangentially and cover a huge area (such as, Chelyabinsk meteor was also seen from Yekaterinburg, 200 km away).
There should be a lot of evidence towards it before it to be accepted as the primary cause (and not an omen, for example)
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- dboreham 5y agoThis isn't unusual. In 2009 I was sitting in my hot tub in Montana and saw this event, which hit in Utah, 500 miles away : https://www.nevadameteorites.com/nevadameteorites/November_18,2009_fireball.html https://www.nevadameteorites.com/nevadameteorites/November_1...
- etrautmann 5y agoInteresting! How do you know that this was a meteorite and not another thing that went wrong at Dugway?
- thriftwy 5y agoThing is, it did not obliterate any specific area with 25 km radius.
- dboreham 5y agoNo, high altitude burst.
- Keysh 5y agoThe suggestion in the article is that the bolide impact (or airburst) was well outside the city, to the SW, since a lot of the evidence suggests a blast moving from SW to NE through the city.