Fat rock falling down

[Skybird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6KXsdGsR0

On January 17th, probably a huge meteor entered the atmosphere and apparently broke apart and burnt over Sweden, but not before having reached relatively low levels of the atmosphere. People reported to have felt a pressure front in the air, which so far is explained as a supersonic shockwave. It worried people as far away as on the German coast of the Baltic, who also felt the pressure front, they said. Wowh.

Or was it a Martian plasma beam? :)

[A Very Super Market]

Meteors hit the Earth every day. This one was just a bit too small and broke apart in the atmosphere. If it was bigger, it could have caused another Tunguska.

[Reece]

Or was it a Martian plasma beam? :)Yes that's it! fancy believing the other story!!:yep:

[Skybird]

Meteors hit the Earth every day. This one was just a bit too small and broke apart in the atmosphere. If it was bigger, it could have caused another Tunguska.
I wonder if it really was "a bit too small". Mind you - people felt the shockwave from it entering the atmosphere, and quite some distance away on the ground. Astronomers consider it to have had an unusually steep entry angle, a German newspaper wrote.

[A Very Super Market]

Well, I meant that it was too small to fully break through the atmosphere, had it been larger, it would have plowed straight through and annihilated the area.

Then again, with that steep of an angle, it was basically smashing it's face on the atmosphere. There's probably a special angle that lets meteorites avoid skipping like a stone on the atmosphere and not plow fullspeed into a fairly hard surface.

[heartc]

Hm, wasn't there another entry of a big one only a few months ago?

Here, found it. Over Canada, 20 November 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw

Looks eerily similar, doesn't it.
Maybe something even bigger broke up at some point and the crap is now passing our solar system?
I wonder if some smart guys are already working in earnest on how to divert "The Big One" when it comes along at some point (I mean in general, not because of the recent entries). I would find it quite ironic if people survived the Cold War only to be wasted by a "Green Nuke", lol.

[Oberon]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-KuM_HWs1lA&feature=related

:lol:

[SteamWake]

There are a lot more factors of wether or not a meteor strakes the earth than its size. Its shape, its composition, its density.

A volkswagon sized nugget of nickle/iron of high density and somewhat rounded would deal a world of hurt when compared to a ship sized chunk of ferrous iron pockmarked and full of air.

Yes meteors enter our atmosphere hourly around the globe 99% of these go un noticed, a few are witnessed as falling stars, and every once in a while one actually strikes the earth.

By the way it is theroized that the one in Tunguska did not actually strike the earth, rather it 'exploded' a mile or so above it.