[meteorite-list] If this can happen so can an asteroid hitting the Earth

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:28:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <13050861.1362965326791.JavaMail.root_at_wamui-hunyo.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Whoa Don,

You said,

"There are literally hundreds of thousands of these asteroids that are about 1/2 mile wide and smaller that can take out a large city at any time."

As of this posting, there aren't ANY objects in the observable solar system near that size, or larger, that we haven't been observing for a long time and predicted that their chances of impacting the earth is next to nil. In fact, as I recall being posted on the sites blogging the many programs watching out for us, that there are only a dozen, or so, objects that are of a size that could be considered capable of massive destruction. Most are located in the belt of debris between Jupiter and Mars. We have named the bulk of them and have visited several.

Chelyabinsk and Caranacas weren't big enough to trigger a warning and neither was visible approaching because of sun angle. An argument could be made that it would have better if the dark flight remnants of Chelyabinsk had dropped in the city proper. Less would have been injured do to overpressure. From what we can see the dark flight fall of the remaining bits and pieces didn't damage anything anyway.

Caranacas dropped in a corral in the middle of a village amongst animals and did little in personal, or property, damage. Both the Russian and Peruvian falls were meteoroids of substantual tonnage and released hundreds of multiples of the energy of our favorite comparison object...the nuke at Hiroshima..but did nothing remarkable.

Sikhote Alin and the object that caused the airburst at Tunguska would with todays in place technology been seen decades before entering the atmosphere.

Yes, it will happen, I agree....but not as a terrifying, out of the blue, crap your drawers event that your post implies.

Your scaring me and the kids with this "the sky is falling" stuff :0)

Regards,

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536



   

-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Merchant <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>
>Sent: Mar 10, 2013 3:19 PM
>To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Cc: Don Merchant <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>
>Subject: [meteorite-list] If this can happen so can an asteroid hitting the Earth
>
>Hi List. Just wanted to post a thought. Here is a link of which a piece of
>Chinese space debris from 2007 hit a Russian satellite causing it to be
>knocked out of orbit and direction thus rendering it useless. The point
>being with all that space and distance between objects, who would of thought
>that possible. Trust me not NASA, anything can happen at anytime. When NASA
>says that an approaching asteroid will miss the Earth...maybe, but what
>happens if a smaller object that NASA does not or can not see hits that
>asteroid the next day or next hour and changes its orbit, now its heading
>straight at Earth. Did NASA know about the Chelyabinsk asteroid...no they
>did not until it hit. What about the Carancas meteorite event in Peru
>2007...no they did not. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these
>asteroids that are about 1/2 mile wide and smaller that can take out a large
>city at any time. I have noticed over the past 2 years an incredible
>increase of observed bolides, daylight fireballs, and actual meteorite hits
>on Earth. This increase is being caused by something that has affected the
>Solar System. The planets besides Earth, such as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
>Neptune are showing increased changes never before seen. There are also an
>increase in more comets entering our solar system as well. Anyways....I
>believe that a Tunguska event x2 is very well in our near future, maybe even
>this year, and NASA will have totally missed it....that of course until it
>happens!
>Here is the Link:
>http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/09/tech/satellite-hit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
>
>Sincerely
>Don Merchant
>Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
>www.ctreasurescwonders.com
>IMCA #0960
>
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