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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:26 am 
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My entire city (400K people) was just shaken by a massive sonic boom...

Where I was the whole house just shook like there was an earthquake, and I felt it in my stomach.


Apparently it was a meteor streaking overhead, rumour has it not much bigger than a basketball... ???? ?

Damn, if a little meteor can do that - we need to find a way to blast the bigger ones ASAP!! ?:O




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Sounds both scary and exciting at the same time. Too bad you did not get to see it.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:06 am 
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Yeah, reports of an exploding fireball are coming in.  It was heard in towns and cities hundreds of kilometres away too.

It made such a noise and tremor that I thought something must have smashed into the front of my house and I ran out to check!  Lots of the neighbours were also milling around wondering what had happened.  

Reports are that it was something between the size of a baseball and a basketball... hard to believe something that small could cause such a big effect...

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Well, it wasnt quite that small when it entered the atmosphere...  And they move quite fast.  :)


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:48 am 
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Cool.

I wonder if it exploded?

That would cause the effect you describe.

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(iblisdrax @ Sep. 12 2006,06:13)
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Well, it wasnt quite that small when it entered the atmosphere... ?And they move quite fast. ?:)

However big it was I am glad it wasn't bigger ?:)

E&C's link suggests that even a meteor 10 metres across can produce a 10 kiloton (hiroshima) blast. ?

Yes it probably detonated, though its hard to know for sure at this stage.

Interestingly the first thing I did was dive into a doorway,  reacting as though it was an earthquake. Then when nothing further happened, and wondering why there had been such an unsually loud noise, I went to see if something had crashed, exploded etc outside.  Lots of calls were made to emergency services, with the proximity to 9/11 not helping peoples nerves.




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Wow! Could sound stupid, perhaps, but I wish I was there!

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Sounds really cool and scary, I wish I was there as well.

However the BBC has no story on it yet and is the only news source I listen to (and sometimes believe), so at the moment it is only a rumour.

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Markconze, by the way, I'm guessing it's the bit which survived to reach ground to have been the size of a basketball - the original size (i.e. before burning up in the good old atmosphere) must have been far bigger.

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More on it...

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news....skyline

A rare daytime meteor has entered the atmosphere above Canterbury, with residents from Ashburton to Wellington reporting a loud sonic boom.

Emergency services received thousands of calls from people reporting that the noise shook houses and rattled windows.

Christchurch residents say the boom shook houses and rattled windows, while witnesses reported seeing the meteor shooting across the sky in a north-westerly direction and exploding into a white cloud.

The resident superintendent of Canterbury University's Mount John observatory, Alan Gilmore, told Checkpoint such an event only happens in the daytime every few years.

He says the sonic boom indicates the meteor was travelling less than 60km above the ground, and eyewitness reports indicate it probably turned to a terminal fireball and broke up before it hit the ground.

He also says reports indicate it was a large meteor.

Wellington's Carter Observatory says one person phoned in from as far away as Lake Ferry in the Wairarapa to report the meteor.

Geonet measures sonic boom
A seismologist from the GeoNet data centre, Kevin Fenaughty, says two of their instruments in Christchurch picked up surface and sound waves from the sonic boom travelling from north to south.

He says they have not picked up any recordings which suggest the meteor hit the ground.

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And on the BBC finally for Ragnarok...  :p  :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5337788.stm

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(Markconz @ Sep. 12 2006,11:25)
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And on the BBC finally for Ragnarok... ?:p ?:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5337788.stm

Excellent, it has now offically happened  :D

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Hi Markco,

*** Any idea how big it was before the atmosphere whittled it down to basketball size? ***

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I wish I was there, too. 60km is pretty darn close. Good to hear that no one was hurt. Makes you wonder how big the meteor was that created Meteor Crater, never mind the one the killed off the dinosaurs.

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(MaksimSmelchak @ Sep. 12 2006,13:02)
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Hi Markco,

*** Any idea how big it was before the atmosphere whittled it down to basketball size? ***

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I would love to know Maksim...

No doubt more information will be available over the next few days.

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