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Anyone know if this is something of significance, or is this just going to put a little hole in the ground? Aside: Poor (people of) Sudan. Like that country ne

Anyone know if this is something of significance, or is this just going to put a little hole in the ground? Aside: Poor (people of) Sudan. Like that country needs more issues.

d0mine 18y ago
"It is very unlikely that any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere." http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html
- run4yourlives 18y ago
  In other words, barely news.
  - utx00 18y ago
    it's the first time something like this has been predicted though. that's something.
    - run4yourlives 18y ago
      Fair point, I missed that.
      - lutorm 18y ago
        Not to mention the 1kt energy is not too shabby, even if it's far up.
- timtrueman 18y ago
  "Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time." That's pretty significant/awesome.
maxklein 18y ago
Oh yes, the poor population of Sudan, huddled together on 5 meters of ground, and that is the exact 5 meters that gets hit by an asteroid. What are the odds?
- run4yourlives 18y ago
  You do realize that meteor impacts affect more than just the immediate area, right?
  - maxklein 18y ago
    Well, we're talking in different terms here. I happen to be aware how the geography and population density of Sudan looks like. It's a huge country with lots of desert and a very low population density in most of the area. I could drop Switzerland on top of Sudan and only a few goats would blink. This is an example of miscommunication based on assumed knowledge.
    - run4yourlives 18y ago
      You do realize that we're talking nuclear bomb type levels of energy here... even if Sudan is an African Canada, random nukes do have consequences. :-)
      - DabAsteroid 18y ago
        It is only 1 kiloton. The 1908 Tunguska meteor was ~10-20 megatons, and caused no known deaths or injuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event . According to that Wikipedia article, kiloton-range bolides (airburst meteors) typically occur on Earth more than once per year. A stony meteoroid of about 10 metres (30 ft) in diameter can produce an explosion of around 20 kilotons, similar to that of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and data released by the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program indicate that such explosions occur high in the upper atmosphere more than once a year.

Anyone know if this is something of significance, or is this just going to put a little hole in the ground? Aside: Poor (people of) Sudan. Like that country needs more issues.

d0mine 18y ago

"It is very unlikely that any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere." http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html

run4yourlives 18y ago
In other words, barely news.
- utx00 18y ago
  it's the first time something like this has been predicted though. that's something.
  - run4yourlives 18y ago
    Fair point, I missed that.
    - lutorm 18y ago
      Not to mention the 1kt energy is not too shabby, even if it's far up.
timtrueman 18y ago
"Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time." That's pretty significant/awesome.

maxklein 18y ago

Oh yes, the poor population of Sudan, huddled together on 5 meters of ground, and that is the exact 5 meters that gets hit by an asteroid. What are the odds?

run4yourlives 18y ago
You do realize that meteor impacts affect more than just the immediate area, right?
- maxklein 18y ago
  Well, we're talking in different terms here. I happen to be aware how the geography and population density of Sudan looks like. It's a huge country with lots of desert and a very low population density in most of the area. I could drop Switzerland on top of Sudan and only a few goats would blink. This is an example of miscommunication based on assumed knowledge.
  - run4yourlives 18y ago
    You do realize that we're talking nuclear bomb type levels of energy here... even if Sudan is an African Canada, random nukes do have consequences. :-)
    - DabAsteroid 18y ago
      It is only 1 kiloton. The 1908 Tunguska meteor was ~10-20 megatons, and caused no known deaths or injuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event . According to that Wikipedia article, kiloton-range bolides (airburst meteors) typically occur on Earth more than once per year. A stony meteoroid of about 10 metres (30 ft) in diameter can produce an explosion of around 20 kilotons, similar to that of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and data released by the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program indicate that such explosions occur high in the upper atmosphere more than once a year.