Conquer Club

jonesthecurl wrote:I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

AndyDufresne wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

jonesthecurl wrote:Hey, governments - here's a good reason for a bigger interest in space.

AndyDufresne wrote:It was supposedly an extra dense and hard meteor, and may have been made of iron. I'm sure people will dig around for fragments to get rich.


--Andy

" The odds of the largest meteor strike in 100 years occurring on the same day as the closest asteroid approach in 15 years are about 1 in 200 million, assuming these events are not correlated--truly a cosmic coincidence! "

AndyDufresne wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

nietzsche wrote:

AndyDufresne wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

I'd be greatly greatly surprised if this was just a coincidence, there has to be a relation between the two.

notyou2 wrote:This is not the first time for an event like this in Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

notyou2 wrote:This is not the first time for an event like this in Russia.

AndyDufresne wrote:It was supposedly an extra dense and hard meteor, and may have been made of iron. I'm sure people will dig around for fragments to determine component analysis.


--Andy