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Post by goodnight on Sept 15, 2014 17:56:39 GMT -5
I was watching this thing on TV today about meteorites and something occurred to me. Even small meteorites can sometimes cause a lot of damage. When that one hit the Baldwin ladies recipe room, it seemed like it only made a hole in the roof and floor. Do you think it's completely realistic that a flaming ball of rock (it looked about the size of a basketball) landing next to a moonshine still didn't cause the whole house to blow up? That is, if it was something that really happened and not just a TV plot.  |
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Post by patriciaanne on Sept 15, 2014 19:54:31 GMT -5
I was watching this thing on TV today about meteorites and something occurred to me. Even small meteorites can sometimes cause a lot of damage. When that one hit the Baldwin ladies recipe room, it seemed like it only made a hole in the roof and floor. Do you think it's completely realistic that a flaming ball of rock (it looked about the size of a basketball) landing next to a moonshine still didn't cause the whole house to blow up? That is, if it was something that really happened and not just a TV plot.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 21:51:31 GMT -5
I was watching this thing on TV today about meteorites and something occurred to me. Even small meteorites can sometimes cause a lot of damage. When that one hit the Baldwin ladies recipe room, it seemed like it only made a hole in the roof and floor. Do you think it's completely realistic that a flaming ball of rock (it looked about the size of a basketball) landing next to a moonshine still didn't cause the whole house to blow up? That is, if it was something that really happened and not just a TV plot. Well that is disappointing.  |
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Post by clyde on Sept 17, 2014 10:32:08 GMT -5
The first known modern case of a human hit by a space rock occurred on 30 November 1954 in Sylacauga, Alabama.[53] There a 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) stone chondrite[54] crashed through a roof and hit Ann Hodges in her living room after it bounced off her radio. She was badly bruised. The Hodges meteorite, or Sylacauga meteorite, is currently on exhibit at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
I guess if Ann Hodges could survive (see above), then the Baldwin sisters could survive as well. I guess Wikipedia didn't know about the Waltons' meteorite!
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Post by goodnight on Sept 17, 2014 11:11:19 GMT -5
Perhaps I was thinking about and comparing it to that one in Siberia in 1908. It exploded before it hit the ground and flattened trees for miles around.
Maybe all of them are not burning by the time they hit. Like the one Clyde mentioned that hit the woman's radio and then hit her.
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Post by Easton on Sept 19, 2021 12:58:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the link to your thread, goodnight. You are correct. It could have been burnt out, but it was 'burning' when the kids saw it in the sky, but it's not the flames which do the damage. It's the speed. I could go into details about how it's actually the atmosphere which is burning, but trust me: it's not the meteor which is burning.
As for the speed, the crater in Arizona was created about 50,000 years ago by a meteor about 160 feet (50 m) across (about the wingspan of a 747). It was travelling an estimated 30,000 miles per hour (about 20 km per second). It created a crater almost 25 times the size of the meteor.
In space, it is known as an 'asteroid'. When you see it burning in the sky, it is known as a meteor. If it strike the ground, it is known as a meteorite.
A meteorite like the basketball-sized one in 'The Star' could easily have destroyed the Baldwin house and left a sizeable hole in the ground.
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Post by isumpin on Sept 21, 2021 14:42:59 GMT -5
I have actually been to Meteor Crater when My Brother lived in Flagstaff, AZ. It was really awesome. I stopped on my way to the Corner in Winslow Az. From the Eagles song.  |
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Post by Easton on Sept 21, 2021 15:22:01 GMT -5
^ There is a massive impact crater on Mars called the Hellas Basin. It is about 2,300 km (1,400 miles) across and over 9 km (5 1/2 miles) deep. If you could set Mount Everest into the crater, the peak would not reach the height of the rim.
Alternatively, there is a volcano on Mars called Olympus Mons. It's the tallest volcano in the Solar System and is 3 times higher than Everest.
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