Meteor impact at Northern Neveda

[Tangri]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Astronomers say a loud explosion heard across a large swath of Nevada and California on Sunday morning was likely caused by a meteor.

The explosion rattled windows and shook houses from Reno to Winnemucca in Nevada, and from the Sacramento to Bakersfield areas in California.

Dan Ruby of the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, says the reports indicate the meteor broke up above Earth somewhere over the Sierra southwest of Reno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gxNTeAr9H0

[crosby]

thank you. i wonder what it really was

[Tangri]

thank you Tangri. i wonder what it really was

Strange thing is : Meteor did not impact on Earth. It exploded above ground. It needs digging.

[sdv]

Wouldn't someone have seen it? A meteorite creates quite a spectacular light show.

Just checked and people did seem to see it.

More meteorites hitting Earth because of wekening of magnetic field?

[modwiz]

Maybe someone is blasting nasty craft from the skies. The large, anti-gravity types of craft.
'Things' could be beginning.

If it just happened and they all ready have answers then I'm having 9/11 deja vu all over again.

I can accept that it could have been a meteor, just not yet.

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thank you Tangri. i wonder what it really was

Maybe God flicked a booger. :p

[boja]

IF it was a meteorite, and one large enough to have caused this "explosion", wouldn't the astronomers / authorities have seen it coming and given some warning ?? Or would that have been too much to expect ?

[Hervé]

The Tunguska one never hit the ground... and that was a big one!

[KiwiElf]

Maybe someone is blasting nasty craft from the skies. The large, anti-gravity types of craft.
'Things' could be beginning.

If it just happened and they all ready have answers then I'm having 9/11 deja vu all over again.

I can accept that it could have been a meteor, just not yet.

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thank you Levent tonga. i wonder what it really was

Maybe God flicked a booger. :p

LOL - well... it is Area 51/S4 territory - could be ;)

[WhiteFeather]

Maybe someone is blasting nasty craft from the skies. The large, anti-gravity types of craft.
'Things' could be beginning.

If it just happened and they all ready have answers then I'm having 9/11 deja vu all over again.

I can accept that it could have been a meteor, just not yet.

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thank you Levent tonga. i wonder what it really was

Maybe God flicked a booger. :p

I thought that as well Modwiz....A little ET hanky panky wars going on in our skies, it makes more sense than a meteor..doesnt it?... perhaps

[Forevernyt]

I think what we'll be seeing is, that we are moving through the debris field of Elenin. Expect more meteors and meteor showers in the coming days, as I've heard that it peaks on 4/26.

[MorningSong]

I saw various accounts of this meteor "boom" last night on the net.

Here is what spaceweather.com has to say:


SIERRA FIREBALL DECODED: On Sunday morning, April 22nd, just as the Lyrid meteor shower was dying down, a spectacular fireball exploded over California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. The loud explosion rattled homes from central California to Reno, Nevada, and beyond. According to Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Envronment Office, the source of the blast was a meteoroid about the size of a minivan.

"Elizabeth Silber at Western University has searched for infrasound signals from the explosion," says Cooke. "Infrasound is very low frequency sound which can travel great distances. There were strong signals at 2 stations, enabling a triangulation of the energy source at 37.6N, 120.5W. This is marked by a yellow flag in the map below."

http://spaceweather.com/images2012/23apr12/fireballmap_strip.jpg

"The energy is estimated at a whopping 3.8 kilotons of TNT (about one fourth the energy of the 'Little Boy' bomb dropped on Hiroshima), so this was a big event," he continues. "I am not saying there was a 3.8 kiloton explosion on the ground in California. I am saying that the meteor possessed this amount of energy before it broke apart in the atmosphere. [The map] shows the location of the atmospheric breakup, not impact with the ground."

"The fact that sonic booms were heard indicates that this meteor penetrated very low in atmosphere, which implies a speed less than 15 km/s (33,500 mph). Assuming this value for the speed, I get a mass for the meteor of around 70 metric tons. Hazarding a further guess at the density of 3 grams per cubic centimeter (solid rock), I calculate a size of about 3-4 meters, or about the size of a minivan."

"This meteor was probably not a Lyrid; without a trajectory, I cannot rule out a Lyrid origin, but I think it likely that it was a background or sporadic meteor."

Here are some other links:

"Explosion heard in Nevada, California was likely caused by meteor, astronomers say"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/explosion-heard-in-nevada-california-was-likely-caused-by-meteor-astronomers-say/2012/04/22/gIQAZczXaT_story.html

"Explosion Heard in NV, CA Traced To Meteor"
http://www.ktvn.com/story/17652544/update-large-boom-heard-around-region-sunday

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php?start_date=2012-04-01&end_date=2012-04-31&state&event_id=588&submit=Find%2BReports

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.it/2012/04/breaking-news-california-nevada-daytime.html

http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com.br/

[Forevernyt]

Probably from Elenin. :)

[modwiz]

Interesting that this headline appears today:
Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
http://news.yahoo.com/super-secret-hypersonic-aircraft-flew-skin-152315621--abc-news-topstories.html
I apologize for a yahoo news link.

Here is more substantive coverage at VT:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/23/mach-20-hypersonic-strike-plane-one-hour-to-anywhere-target/
The first story is about an incident that occurred in August. It just happens to make the news today.
Of course, these stories are purely coincidental. :rolleyes:

[Hervé]

I think what we'll be seeing is, that we are moving through the debris field of Elenin. Expect more meteors and meteor showers in the coming days, as I've heard that it peaks on 4/26.

Not possible:




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Must have been my mis-understanding of how this stuff works. I thought that Elenin was crossing Earth's orbital path and would leave dust and debris in a trail that we would pass through annually. I was thinking that it would leave a pretty good trail since it was dissolving into a cloud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

[...]

That's more of the propaganda: The cloud of asteroids will follow comet Elenin's long period orbital path. Accordingly, Earth won't cross that path and trail until next year when most, if not all, the dust and particles will have been blown off beyond Pluto with the solar wind... and the cloud of asteroids well on its way out of this solar system.

Elenin crossing Earth's orbit doesn't happen in a 3D geometric rendering of its path. It crosses the ecliptic plane around Sept. 13 and that's the only spot where Elenin's tail is directly aligned with Earth's orbit. However, the Earth is well ahead of that spot.

Beyond tomorrow, anything Elenin that doesn't follow its orbital path gets blown "above" Earth's orbit.

[tonton]

remember the supposed meteor that impacted in russia in the early 1900s,remember that it was a specific type of meteor that exploded above ground , remember the devastating damage that occurred.this one though, didnt damage anything , just went boom.............yeah right.

[parcival]

here's an alternative explanation:

http://formerwhitehat.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/it-was-not-a-meteor-folks-but-nasty-nazis/#comments

[DreamsInDigital]

You can't trust anything that lying sack of cow manure says parcival.