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NASA confirms half-ton meteor crashed into South Texas
- hulitu 4y agoIt seems mass hysteria never stopes (or it is never left to stop). After everyone saw spying baloons now everyone sees meteors.
- Cardinal7167 4y agoWhat are you saying? This was actually a meteor, that actually hit the ground, and there is no hysteria I can see in this news article. It’s purely objective.
- hulitu 4y agoESA also saw one a couple of days ago.
- sandebert 4y agoDid they shoot it down?
- hifikuno 4y agoHere's an article by NASA themselves. Had to use Wayback machine as when I tried accessing it I got a 503 error. https://web.archive.org/web/20230217173353/https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/san-isidro-tx-15-feb-2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230217173353/https://ares.jsc....
- justinclift 4y agoThe non-Wayback machine version is working for me (from Australia) when trying it just now: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/san-isidro-tx-15-feb-2023 https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/san-isidro-...
- bmitc 4y agoIt doesn't sound like they knew about it before it hit the atmosphere. I wonder how big it was before it broke up.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoMisleading title, as at the point(s) of the crash it seems to have disintegrated ?
- i4k 4y agoJust because NASA announced there's no Meteor/Asteroid Earth-Killer/Country-killer that will hit us in the next 100 years, it doesn't mean that small sized ones would not. What amazes me is that when those small rocks do hit earth, they always fall into vast empty fields. The earth is so big and we fail to realize it. Once I read that the entire earth population would easily fit into New York, and it would not be so packed. I wonder what area would cover all the human made constructions (houses, buildings, industries, etc) and how it compare to the entire globe surface. It's actually very hard to hit humans from space, you'd have to try hard if trying to shoot a rock from sky to actually kill someone.
- deafpolygon 4y ago> Once I read that the entire earth population would easily fit into New York, and it would not be so packed. 7b people fits in the state of NY ?
- tzs 4y agoYes, with a density of 128k people per sq^2 (50k per km^2). That's about 115% the density of Manila in the Philippines, and about 60% the density of Malé in the Maldives, if you want some places to compare to. Wikipedia has a nice photo of Malé [1]. So imagine covering the entire state like that and it would be enough to hold the projected peak human population which is forecast to be a bit under 11 billion in 2080. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9#/media/File:Mal%C3%A9.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9#/media/File:Mal%C3%A...
- mock-possum 4y agoFrom Wikipedia: > Sewage is pumped unprocessed into the sea Lovely
- deafpolygon 4y agoDoes this look pleasant to you?
- stuntkite 4y agoIf I found it, would it be mine?
- bguebert 4y agoIn the US if you own the land it falls on, then it would belong to you. If it's on public land then the Smithsonian Institute gets it. https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/uploads/IM2012-182_att1.pdf https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/uploads/IM2012-182_a...
- stuntkite 4y agoThank you.
- consumer451 4y agoOne of my many nightmares is this happening over North Korea, Pakistan, or even Moscow, and the the origin of the blast being misunderstood.
- deafpolygon 4y agoDid anyone get iridium from the meteor?