Is there a big meteor shower going on?

[Duddy]

I was talking to a friend in Kentucky earlier, about 2 hours ago, and all of a sudden I heard a boom over the phone and he screamed out "WTF!"

I asked him what happened and he said there was a bright flash and a loud boom right after and felt a shockwave that rattled his windows. He thought another jet crashed, but I told him it sounded more like a meteorite.

So, I looked up to see if there are any expected meteor showers and couldn't find any.


WTF is going on?

 

[loup garou]

tripods

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: loup garou
tripods

That's hilarious that you said that because he said that too! He thought it was War of the Worlds and said he's gonna go hide with Tim Robbins. 😛

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: loup garou
tripods

That's hilarious that you said that because he said that too! He thought it was War of the Worlds and said he's gonna go hide with Tim Robbins. 😛

tell him to watch out for his cornhole

 

[Duddy]

Found it. It was debris from the satellite collision that happened the other day.

Local news is reporting it

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/39601352.html

 

[loup garou]

ok, wrong movie.

andromeda strain

 

[JM Aggie08]

Apocalypse.

Look at Australia's fires, indonesia's earthquakes, and now this.

 

[Kadarin]

Great, now there's going to be a zombie apocalypse in Kentucky...

 

[Red Squirrel]

wow did not realize satellites actually traveled at that high of a speed for a collision to cause that much damage. I figured they just floated and pretty much stayed in same spot.

It's actually pretty cool as there is this bright thing in the sky and others have said it's the reflections of solar panels of the space station. It's incredible that something we built that is that far out, and we can see it in the sky. 4 foot ball fields worth of panels or something crazy like that.

"That's no star, that's a space station!" Is a reality. (ok, so it was "moon" but close enough 😛)

 

[Udgnim]

heh I would have thought the satellite debris would have burnt up when entering the Earth's atmosphere

 

[dawp]

Depends on how big and whats it's made of. This isn't the first time space debris has crashed to earth.

EDIT:
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/reentry/reentry.html

 

[Cyco]

Better a meteor shower than a golden shower I say.

 

[CPA]

Revenge of the Fallen

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Cyco
Better a meteor shower than a golden shower I say.

Speak for yourself 😱

 

[marvdmartian]

Originally posted by: dawp
Depends on how big and whats it's made of. This isn't the first time space debris has crashed to earth.

EDIT:
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/reentry/reentry.html

I loved this line:

Some objects may have a very high melt temperature such that they can never demise, but are so light (e.g., tungsten shims) that they impact with a very low velocity. As a result, the kinetic energy at impact is sometimes under 15 J, a threshold below which the probability of human casualty is very low.

Yeah, tell that to Georgia Lass!!! :laugh:

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: loup garou
ok, wrong movie.

andromeda strain

quick! somebody declare a Wildfire alert! We need to assemble the team immediately.