Not a good sign as to what may come

[cyclonebuster]

over the next month.<br /><br />http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?s=4865818

 

[qso1]

It may be a more normal occurance than most realize. Many an unseen meteor reenters over the vast expanses of oceans.<br /><br />If it is a sign of things to come, we may be headed into a collection of previously unknown meteorites or whatever they are called before they enter the atmosphere. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[doubletruncation]

As noted in the article, a large bolide hit over the same region (El Paso, TX) back in 1997 as well. I was actually there when it happened - there was a very loud boom, sounded like someone had exploded a bomb a few blocks away. Anyway, I think the point is, as qso1 mentioned, that this sort of thing happens all the time - nothing to be frightened about really. I guess if you take those two observations and were very brash you might conclude that any given spot on the planet will have such a thing hit nearby at a frequency of once every decade or so. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[michaelmozina]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>over the next month. <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Something tells me that you are actually going to be a little bit disappointed when we get into June and nothing tramatic has occured. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. - Kristian Birkeland </div>

 

[cyclonebuster]

You got that right. What scares me is 3BD .00010 MIN. miss distance. They can't norrow it down more than 5.5 million miles with a 3 sigma after 159 observations?