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IT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT, March 11, 2022, From The Cosmos News:
"An asteroid struck the Earth over the weekend, just two hours after it was discovered. Designated 2022 EB5, the small rocky object impacted the planet on March 11 north of Iceland, according to numerous astronomers online.
At just three meters wide, 2022 EB5 was around just half the size of an average male giraffe, which grows to be around five-six meters in height. As such, it was unlikely to do any damage if it had impacted the planet."
It is amazing how in seconds, our Planet Earth was struck by an object from deep space! This object was tracked along with three others, but the one that struck Earth was closer to Earth than the other three... Although it was expected to pass by Earth, Earth's magnetic pull drew this asteroid was drawn in and reported to crash in a deserted area of Greenland...
Kerry
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"An asteroid struck the Earth over the weekend, just two hours after it was discovered. Designated 2022 EB5, the small rocky object impacted the planet on March 11 north of Iceland, according to numerous astronomers online.
At just three meters wide, 2022 EB5 was around just half the size of an average male giraffe, which grows to be around five-six meters in height. As such, it was unlikely to do any damage if it had impacted the planet."
It is amazing how in seconds, our Planet Earth was struck by an object from deep space! This object was tracked along with three others, but the one that struck Earth was closer to Earth than the other three... Although it was expected to pass by Earth, Earth's magnetic pull drew this asteroid was drawn in and reported to crash in a deserted area of Greenland...
Kerry
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Thank you for the news video clip brother Sgt (Join to see) , if all of them had hit, it would have been horrendous.
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1SG Dan Capri - Most of this one probably burnt up on entry with a small amount left to crash... Greenland is mostly ice cap, so probably no damage, but if a larger asteroid, it could have been disastrous if it struck a metropolitan area...
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Sgt (Join to see) Interesting share! Always an exciting event for a heavenly passersby to fly past earth, or through our atmosphere. Wondering if there were any sightings of it, or photos! It is disappointing we did not know in advance, to try to see the show.
I think you are right on target, Kerry, about the impactor burning up on entry with a small amount left to melt a little of Greenland's ice - because it was only half the size of an average male giraffe and less than 10 feet in diameter - not by any stretch of the imagination a "massive astreroid" like YouTube labeled it, lol For comparison what we saw of the 2013 Chelyabinsk Event was caused by a near earth object approximately 20 m (66 ft) compared to the 3 meter (~10 foot) 2022 EB5 of 11 March.
Am thinking the trajectory of only the small ones in size and density, add to it their composition, and being oddly shaped, would make them more apt to be unpredictable when nearing earth's gravitational pull. There have been photos in the news of an impactor the size of a basketball going through someone's roof! And that would have been what is left after the larger object burned up going through earth's atmosphere. I doubt the parts that reached earth 11 March, would have been any larger after burning up in the atmosphere - probably many much smaller fragments.
That we have a larger than usual coronal mass ejection from a few days ago, earth directed, with the largest amount of plasma energy arriving today (predicted to cause beautiful aurora's) perhaps also had some effect on the trajectory of all four!
Would be nice to try to get a look at these guys when they hurtle past. I only know of two large one that have been mentioned years in advance - Apophis passing by in 2029 and the one that surprised us in 2013 passing by, which will be passing by again in 2032 - both near earth, said by NASA to not be impact threats. Guess we would never know one way or another about the potential danger as the time draws nearer when it is not announced in advance.
Because of unpredictability of our gravity and mass/shape/composition/size/velocity of the passersby, and activity of the sun, even the best predictions may be "off" by some amount. But NASA also takes many combinations of possible variables into consideration when predicting trajectory. Except the 2013 Chelyabinsk Event, I don't recall mention of any impacts of that size, larger, or smaller, being reported before or after the fact, prior to near earth object searching and identifying finally being funded.
I think you are right on target, Kerry, about the impactor burning up on entry with a small amount left to melt a little of Greenland's ice - because it was only half the size of an average male giraffe and less than 10 feet in diameter - not by any stretch of the imagination a "massive astreroid" like YouTube labeled it, lol For comparison what we saw of the 2013 Chelyabinsk Event was caused by a near earth object approximately 20 m (66 ft) compared to the 3 meter (~10 foot) 2022 EB5 of 11 March.
Am thinking the trajectory of only the small ones in size and density, add to it their composition, and being oddly shaped, would make them more apt to be unpredictable when nearing earth's gravitational pull. There have been photos in the news of an impactor the size of a basketball going through someone's roof! And that would have been what is left after the larger object burned up going through earth's atmosphere. I doubt the parts that reached earth 11 March, would have been any larger after burning up in the atmosphere - probably many much smaller fragments.
That we have a larger than usual coronal mass ejection from a few days ago, earth directed, with the largest amount of plasma energy arriving today (predicted to cause beautiful aurora's) perhaps also had some effect on the trajectory of all four!
Would be nice to try to get a look at these guys when they hurtle past. I only know of two large one that have been mentioned years in advance - Apophis passing by in 2029 and the one that surprised us in 2013 passing by, which will be passing by again in 2032 - both near earth, said by NASA to not be impact threats. Guess we would never know one way or another about the potential danger as the time draws nearer when it is not announced in advance.
Because of unpredictability of our gravity and mass/shape/composition/size/velocity of the passersby, and activity of the sun, even the best predictions may be "off" by some amount. But NASA also takes many combinations of possible variables into consideration when predicting trajectory. Except the 2013 Chelyabinsk Event, I don't recall mention of any impacts of that size, larger, or smaller, being reported before or after the fact, prior to near earth object searching and identifying finally being funded.
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