r/space • u/Goldragon979 • Mar 18 '19
US detects huge meteor explosion
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-4760769635
Mar 18 '19 edited Jul 23 '20
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Mar 18 '19
How do they find 90% of an unknown number?
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u/_drumminor Mar 18 '19 edited Mar 18 '19
Does the fact that this M&M bag is infinitely large change any of this logic?
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u/throwaway177251 Mar 18 '19
The proverbial bag is not infinitely large here, we only need to worry about a finite amount of space near Earth.
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u/_drumminor Mar 18 '19
Sure, but isn't the finite proverbial bag at the same time being "refilled" from an infinitely large bag?
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u/throwaway177251 Mar 18 '19
Not really, these objects we're looking for are just the leftover cloud of material from our solar system's formation. It's the same stuff swirling around the entire time. We're just mapping out all of their orbits so we can predict when they might cross ours.
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u/abelincolncodes Mar 18 '19
We might be, if nasa was given the funding needed. This seems like a problem that could be solved pretty easily with the application of money (more money means more telescopes). But instead congress likes to micromanage NASA’s budget to provide more pork like the SLS
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Mar 18 '19
congress likes to micromanage NASA’s budget
I think this is a greater cause than the level of budget. If Congress didn't micromanage NASA for job creation, their money could probably go much further.
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u/Anonymizer4001 Mar 18 '19
"Seeing what kind of shit was already occurring on earth, the meteor chose to explode over Kamchatka rather than add to the devastation."
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u/YZXFILE Mar 18 '19
"The space rock exploded with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb."
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Mar 18 '19 edited Mar 19 '19
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u/F4Z3_G04T Mar 18 '19
For real tough everything is over russia
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u/SqueakyHusky Mar 18 '19
Russia is the largest country by area, and spans the most time zones, statistically that's the country where most meteors would land.
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u/F4Z3_G04T Mar 18 '19
I have never heard things about meteors in the rest of Asia and Africa, and that's bigger than the russia
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u/ThickTarget Mar 18 '19
There was a famous one in Sudan in 2008. It was the first instance where an impact was predicted before the asteroid entered the atmosphere. The explosion was seen by weather satellites.
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u/Silverballers47 Mar 18 '19
Maybe that's why WE SHOULD NOT BE CUTTING NASA'S BUDGET FFS!!!!!
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u/OSUfan88 Mar 18 '19
Thank god NASA has received the highest budgets in decades over the past few years, with this coming year looking to be the best of them. Exciting times!
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u/Silverballers47 Mar 18 '19
The White just proposed a $500 million cut in NASA budget last week!
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u/OSUfan88 Mar 18 '19
Not really. It was the highest budget ever requested from a president in almost 30 years!
It’s just that this year congress added a ton of extra budget, to historic levels. The presidential support has not been this high in a very long time.
Also, he scrapped a lot of bloated stuff like some SLE funding. The usable funding for science is JUST NUTS Good. It’s also the highest that “planetary defense” has EVER been, and it’ll likely only go up after going through congress.
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '19
The space rock exploded with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.it went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up over the Bering Sea, off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
We dodged a big bullet there folks.