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You are slightly mistaken. There have been hit-and-run asteroids that entered the upper atmosphere and skipped through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great
by ahazred8ta 2y ago
You are slightly mistaken. There have been hit-and-run asteroids that entered the upper atmosphere and skipped through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great_Daylight_Fireball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great_Daylight_Fireball The Grand Teton Meteor / The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972 came within 35 miles of the surface. A huge iron meteor might survive a low pass but this would be a very rare event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Earth-grazing_fireballs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Earth-grazing_firebal...
- potamic 2y agoIn 1972, someone happened to have a camera when this passed by and captured an absolutely gorgeous shot with the Tetons in the backdrop. https://www.gardenofmemory.net/the-great-daylight-fireball-of-1972 https://www.gardenofmemory.net/the-great-daylight-fireball-o...
- ahazred8ta 2y agovideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlCfuPrszU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlCfuPrszU -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nP9jcFBJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nP9jcFBJQ
- dylan604 2y agooh boy. that second link is a hoot!
- Aachen 2y ago35 miles is hardly a 20 meters' "buzzcut". The odds of that happening are probably worse than winning the lottery seventeen years in row
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