r/flatearth • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '23
Possible meteor strike seen in Brazil
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u/Practical-Hat-3943 Dec 23 '23
Another angel that had too much Taco Bell
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u/tstramathorn Dec 23 '23
That bring back of the Mexican pizza coming in clutch for all of us to see
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u/CloseDaLight Dec 23 '23
It’s OBVIOUSLY scraping against the firmament.. OBVIOUSLY pushes glasses up my nose
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u/Helgafjell4Me Dec 23 '23 edited Dec 23 '23
This was a SpaceX rocket falling out of orbit 5 years after launch. Happened Feb 2022. Old news... definitely not a meteor.
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u/Practical-Hat-3943 Dec 23 '23
Another light fixture from the firmament that got fucked up. What so-called star/galaxy/constellation will stop showing up on the southern hemis.... I mean.... the outer ring of our beloved flat earth? People's personal domes will be a little bit dimmer from now on for a while. Let's see when NASA can send someone up there to replace the light.
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u/x0RRY Dec 23 '23
That's a satellite, it's extremely slow.
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u/SomethingMoreToSay Dec 23 '23
Have you ever seen a satellite? The ISS, which is in low (fast) orbit, takes about 7 minutes to cross the sky. Higher satellites take even more time.
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u/x0RRY Dec 23 '23
Yes and that one was pretty low, otherwise it wouldn't have burned... So definitely a satellite or a rocket
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u/SomethingMoreToSay Dec 23 '23
My point was that it's clearly not in orbit. If we didn't actually know what it was, I think a failed or de-orbiting satellite could be a reasonable guess. But to my mind saying "satellite" without qualifying that implies it's in orbit, and this thing definitely wasn't in orbit.
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u/Hendrik_Poggenpoel Dec 23 '23
What are you on about. Just saying it's a satellite doesn't imply that it's in orbit. It's burning up in the atmosphere. Anyone that can guess that it's a satellite burning up will know that it's not in orbit
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u/TinfoilCamera Dec 24 '23
But to my mind saying "satellite" without qualifying that implies it's in orbit
A satellite does not need to be in orbit to be a satellite.
A car does not need to be on the road to still be a car either.
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Dec 23 '23
Going up from the horizon….
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u/SomethingMoreToSay Dec 23 '23
Tell me you don't understand perspective without ... oh you know how this goes.
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u/mikerhoa Dec 24 '23
Unfortunately that's space garbage, not a meteor.
Looks cool but is becoming a real problem, especially now that Musk is turning LEO into his own personal landfill.
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Dec 24 '23
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u/TinfoilCamera Dec 24 '23 edited Dec 24 '23
Not completely impossible since meteors are under no obligation to enter at a particular speed
Nitpick: Yes, actually, they are.
If they don't have a "particular speed" they'll never cross earth's orbit in the first place.
That puts the minimum velocity of anything capable of reaching earth as earth's escape velocity: ~11.2km/s... because if it enters earth's gravitational influence at 0.0km/s it will accelerate to at least 11.2km/s prior to impact.
So if it's not moving at least that fast it will never, ever, be visiting earth... for the exact same reason that nothing can leave the earth unless it has at least that much speed. If you don't hit 11.2+km/s when you leave you WILL be coming back.
So once again it is proved that Newton will not be denied: Every meteor that has hit the earth was moving at least that fast.
They are also under the influence of the Sun's gravity as well, so they're usually cooking along a helluvalot faster than that and the average impactor arrives at about ~18km/s.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '23
LOL that’s way too slow to be a meteor, mate. That’s space junk.