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Wow that’s actually incredible. The first confirmed interstellar object impacted earths atmosphere? Really shows how far tech must have come in detecting these
by Ancalagon 5y ago
Wow that’s actually incredible. The first confirmed interstellar object impacted earths atmosphere? Really shows how far tech must have come in detecting these events in the last 20 years or so.
Also the coincidence of it impacting earth and not Jupiter or any other planetary body or just wizzing by is blowing my mind. Of course we have more sensors around earth so that makes sense but still. I would have thought we would’ve seen something similar to Oumououa prior to this.
- sliken 5y agoGeologist didn't have many sensors for locating earthquakes, but then several governments became very interested in tracking any nuclear testing and those sames sensors are quite good at tracking earthquakes. So much so that earthquakes can now be tracked in 3D anywhere on the planet, even enough to identify the shape and thickness of the various continental plates.
- FredPret 5y agoSometimes throwing money at something… works
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>The first confirmed interstellar object impacted earths atmosphere? That's mostly just because we don't notice 1.5ft wide rocks in space unless they do something interesting like hit our atmosphere
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- elihu 5y agoIf (presumed) single protons can be considered "objects" there's also the "oh-my-God particle" of 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
- jacquesm 5y agoThat's just the tracers, the real beam will shortly follow, now that we've helpfully confirmed the dialing in.