 Tupinambis
Male, 18-29, Western US
 146 Posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:31:25 PM
@toblessed
I think you mean "extinct" and how do you conclude this exactly? |
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 Zeegrr60
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
1514 Posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 4:18:18 PM
Meh...wake me for the mass extinction...
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 ferdyfred
Male, 40-49, Europe
5504 Posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:52:38 PM
drawman61
'Have you noticed since the pope resigned, God keeps throwing freakin rocks at us?'
He has a point  |
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 motleystew
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
44 Posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 7:17:03 AM
Nice try outer space but your puny pebbles are no match for our atmosphere. |
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 drawman61
Male, 50-59, Europe
1389 Posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 4:54:40 AM
Have you noticed since the pope resigned, God keeps throwing freakin rocks at us? |
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 toblessed
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
29 Posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 4:07:30 AM
What does this all mean?..........Dinosaurs did not become instinct by an asteroid. |
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 auburnjunky
Male, 30-39, Southern US
8667 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 11:13:52 PM
For the last time. It was not a sonic boom.
It was the shock wave of the meteorite exploding that caused the damage. That was the loud boom. The little booms afterward, were the sounds of further pieces breaking up, and of echoes. |
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 bassman56
Male, 50-59, Southern US
156 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 9:49:08 PM
You're welcome, IRockYeah, it's our job here to keep uninformed dumbasses like yourself in the know. |
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 markust123
Male, 40-49, Western US
3783 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 9:44:56 PM
"It was Nyan Cat."
That bears repeating. |
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 tommy2X4
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
2799 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 9:08:31 PM
"What are you, wikipedia?" |
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 mentott510
Male, 60-69, Eastern US
93 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 8:04:10 PM
I think this is referred to as a "bolide". I saw one about 20 years ago over Huntington,Pa. that looked just like the Martian rocket canisters in the 1952 version of "War of the Worlds". A large bright blue/white center and appeared to move quite slowly compared to a regular meteor. The flaming debris trail is visible w/o a telescope. Pretty spectacular. |
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 Magickrat
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
329 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:38:01 PM
IRockYeah - Are you always such a dickhead or did you not have your drink today? |
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 piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3156 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:30:38 PM
Some Russian news about it |
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piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3156 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:18:45 PM
Another info this space object are called Asteroids when they are out in the space,when they cross the atmosphere they are called Meteors,the pieces of it that eventualy "survive" and arrive to the ground are called meteorites. |
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 IRockYeah
Male, 30-39, Europe
2141 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:11:36 PM
Fu*k me. Thanks for that "infographic" you jobless sack of dicks. I wouldn't have known it had happened because I never watch the news. |
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piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3156 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:11:19 PM
They assume the asteroid exploded in 9 major pieces earing the sonic boom i presume. In fact there was one major boom followed by some other minor. |
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piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3156 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:08:44 PM
Corydoras87 i see, this is if we assume that he was a totaly dense block ,if we introduce porosity the volume could be much more. I am not an expert btw, some scientist say that this asteroid was like 10 meter of diameter and when he impact the atmosphere he exploded in someting like 9 major pieces. Anyway untill they don't find some piece of it they can't clearly say how much porosity he had. They allready have found one of the point of impact with the ground in a frozen lake. We will know something more in the next days. Anyway ty for your info. |
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 Corydoras87
Male, 18-29, Europe
611 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 6:01:19 PM
(sorry, in my previous response I wrote grams per cubic meter, but it has to be grams per cubic centimeter)
on another note, if it was 10 meter diameter, so a sphere with a radius of 5 meters, this would equal to a volume of 524 m3...
this means that if you want a sphere of that size to weigh 10 tons, you would need a material that has a density of 0.019 g/cm³, which is pretty low, probably a gas
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Corydoras87
Male, 18-29, Europe
611 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 5:45:04 PM
piperfawn, lets say it was a sphere to make things easier, with a radius of 1 meter (diameter of 2 meter).
this equals to a volume of around 4.2 m3.
Now the density of asteroids varies significantly between 1.7 and around 5 grams per m³. lets use the lower end of the scale, 2 g/m², leaving much room that it could weigh more.
This equals in a mass of 8400 kg for a 2 meter diameter spherical asteroid, pretty close to 10 tonnes if you ask me and as I said, it could weigh much more |
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 r66tramp
Male, 40-49, Canada
676 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 5:33:11 PM
Poopy chart! |
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 SunThunder
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
98 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 4:19:08 PM
Meteorite Damn it!!!!!! |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16887 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 4:03:29 PM
Cool! So glad no one died too. |
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 ByOwlPost
Female, 18-29, Western US
520 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 3:45:29 PM
Dude! |
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 FoolsPrussia
Male, 18-29, Western US
2854 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 3:33:54 PM
It was Nyan Cat. |
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piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3156 Posts
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Friday, February 15, 2013 3:32:04 PM
SmagBoy1 That's true. |
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