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i experienced an unidentified craft back in new years day 2013.. so many crazy things to wrap your head around sometimes its overwhelming. what the hell is going on?
Originally posted by ooYODAoo
* planet earth entering a certain region in space where all these space rocks are more abundant?
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
I know one thing for certain. This is a statistical anomaly. Large meteors which are able to make it through the atmosphere and to the ground without burning up are quite rare. The one in Russia was one of the most powerful we've had in quite some time, and it sounds like the one described by the OP was quite large and powerful too. All these similar events packed together so tightly is certainly out of the norm. It could be a coincidence, but if we see any more like this I'll be fairly convinced we're entering an area of space which contains a large amount of debris.
Originally posted by Hellas
This one is from Cuba, February 16
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
I know one thing for certain. This is a statistical anomaly. Large meteors which are able to make it through the atmosphere and to the ground without burning up are quite rare. The one in Russia was one of the most powerful we've had in quite some time
It has been estimated that 100,000 tonnes of extraterrestrial material reach the Earth's surface every year. It can be anything from fine dust to metallic masses weighing many tonnes.
Extraterrestrial material that falls towards the Earth is classified by size. The majority of this material is in the form of tiny particles called micrometeorites. They fall continuously, and arrive unnoticed.
Meteors or 'shooting stars' are often seen in a clear night sky. They are larger dust particles and small rocky fragments, many no more than a gram in weight, which are burnt up by friction as they fall through the Earth's atmosphere.
Meteorites are larger pieces of rock that reach the Earth's surface without getting burnt up in the atmosphere. A meteorite whose arrival has been witnessed is called a fall. Meteorites discovered without a known time of fall are called finds. All meteorites, falls and finds, are named after the place where they were picked up. They are broadly classified according to their composition into stones, stony-irons and irons.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry does not predict any heightened risk of large steroids getting dangerously close to Earth in 2013. “In 2013, not one of known asteroids will pass dangerously close to Earth,” Antistikhiya Center announced.
Originally posted by homeslice
I would say that there is nothing out of the ordinary, just people are on the look out more than the usually would be and then whenever someone has seen something everyone will hear about it.
Originally posted by Char-Lee
I think you are wrong. I have been watching the sky my whole life but only the end of 2012 we saw two HUGE fireballs one blue and one pure bright white, two nights in a row, what are the odds? There are more!
Originally posted by FireballStorm
Originally posted by Char-Lee
I think you are wrong. I have been watching the sky my whole life but only the end of 2012 we saw two HUGE fireballs one blue and one pure bright white, two nights in a row, what are the odds? There are more!
The odds are better than you might think, especially during a meteor shower - was it around December 13/14 (the peak of the Geminid meteor shower)? So you got lucky, so what?
I've also been observing the sky and meteor showers for over 15 years now, and know many other people who observe the sky for meteors, as well as having cameras pointing to the heavens specifically to record meteors. None of us have been seeing any exceptional unexpected increase in fireballs or meteors.
But of course, this is a conspiracy site, and no one wants to listen to those that have actual knowledge of a particular subject - much better to listen to part-timers who have no clue what they are talking aboutedit on 18-2-2013 by FireballStorm because: (no reason given)
reply to post by 33vibe
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to suggest that nothing falls from space, but if the earth is strong enough to hold satalites and the moon in orbit should it not be strong enough to curve most anything into orbit rather than allow it to easily press into our atmosphere? I just think that an atmospheric origin of meteorites is worthy of discussion whether or not it seems immediately practical.
Originally posted by Feltrick
reply to post by ooYODAoo
Yep, meteors are real and are constantly zooming through the skies. It's cool that you witnessed it, I've never been lucky enough.
Remember when everyone was seeing missiles? How about the dreaded Nibiru? I guess this will be the new ATS fad until zombies become fashionable again.
Keep looking up to the heavens, you might see more!
Originally posted by Baddogma
reply to post by 33vibe
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to suggest that nothing falls from space, but if the earth is strong enough to hold satalites and the moon in orbit should it not be strong enough to curve most anything into orbit rather than allow it to easily press into our atmosphere? I just think that an atmospheric origin of meteorites is worthy of discussion whether or not it seems immediately practical.
I don't mean to be difficult, but this concept is fairly wrong as far as common: thought, math, Newtonian physics and our collective sense of sight, goes.
This is a curious worldview... vaguely evokes dark ages and witch drownings, but creative I suppose.
Do you suggest floating islands of rock up there with the 747's? Up there a little further, sure, there are floating islands of rock, named asteroids (after the popular video game from the 70's I'm told by your source) but hanging out within our atmosphere? I guess anything is possible, but I'm drawing a line in the relativistic worldview sand right there... right near the murderers, halitosis sufferers and dogmatically religious.
But as an on topic aside, I saw a faint point of light moving faster than the star-field does, yet way slower than an airplane a couple weeks ago in broad daylight. I thought it had to be Venus and forgot about it. It was 4:00 p.m. in Arizona and 45% up in the Northern sky... now I wonder.