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On Jan. 30th around 10:30 pm PST, a spectacular fireball crawled across the skies of southern California. In Los Angeles and San Diego, millions of people watched it fragment into dozens of pieces high overhead. But what was it? Initial speculation focused on decaying space junk. The slow pace of the fireball combined with its fragmentation--as if parts of a satellite were breaking off in the atmosphere--suggested an orbital decay event. It appears, however, that the fireball was something else entirely.The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 101 reports of the event.
Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office has triangulated data from multiple cameras that picked up the fireball. His conclusion: It did not come from Earth. Instead, the fireball was a small asteroid or comet fragment belonging to the Apollo/Jupiter family. It was orbiting the sun when Earth got in the way, hitting our planet at a speed of 15.5 km/s (~35,000 mph). For comparison, manmade objects in low-Earth orbit typically hit at 7.9 km/s (17,700 mph) when they decay.
If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?
Another great bloody big yawn of a needless undertaking by all the usual suspect for all the usual shop worn "reasons"...
Nobody is taking Macron seriously. He has lost the plot with his insane suggestions about sending French troops into the Ukrainian meat grinder....
... It's a shame those people had to go through that. I'm glad they are alive.
Tiabbi is the least of anyone’s worries, he presents a viewpoint badly needed to form a coherent understanding, if only your own, of what the hell...
This looks like the outline of ancient Egypt, not Gaza, at least to me.
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But: It lasts a long time because it's going slowly, and little closer than even with the ground.
Thus, this NASA statement, doesn't make as much sense as they claim: RC