learning sponge said:

one question though...
if the rock blew up 20 miles above the city due to its own pressure,then what/how did it cause that hole in the frozen lake?

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learning sponge said:

GOD SAVED US

he blew it up in the air!

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Gumby said:

It weighed 10 tons and was traveling something ridiculous like 18 times the speed of sound.

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DeathCompany said:

seem a little slow

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learning sponge said:

yeah I heard it weighed way more...does anyone know the weight?

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Gumby said:

koods is a gigantic liar. Don't believe a word he says.

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starfire_xes said:

I heard the meteorite that hit Russia was unrelated to the one that blew up.  Speaking of ones blowing up in the air, I was eating lunch in my office once, in a company in el paso, and there was this huge explosion, the building shaking, and a flash of light through the window.  I assumed it was a really big sonic boom, but I mean, this think rocked the building.  Then I assumed it was a military shot from white sands being blown up in the atmosphere.  Then on the news that night they said the explosion was a meteor that blew up in the atmosphere.

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On Thursday, October 9, 1997, at around 12:50 pm, a series of sonic booms were heard and a fireball was seen by many people in El Paso,Texas and surrounding areas. Many scientist believe a meteorite fell through the sky over west Texas and southern New Mexico. The above figure is what you heard, as recorded at the Kidd Seismic Observatory on a broadband digital seismometer. It is a seismic recording of the sonic boom from the meteor.
The top trace shows vertical displacement, the middle trace show north-south horizontal displacement, and the bottom trace shows east-west horizontal displacement. The horizontal axis is time (seconds), the vertical axis is amplitude. The record start at 18:49:08 GMT (01:49:08 pm local time). The sonic boom starts about 23 seconds into the display.

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