A meteor has landed in Australia about the size of a small car, and it was filmed.
I know a lot of them on a smaller scale land on Earth all the time.
It would have caused heck of a lot of damage had it landed in a big City so how come they never saw it coming.
The have predicted one to hit the Earth in 30 years time yet this was knocking on our door.
I know that about only 5% of our skies are monitored so maybe this was to close to see.

Originally posted by Cycleracer
A meteor has landed in Australia about the size of a small car, and it was filmed.
I know a lot of them on a smaller scale land on Earth all the time.
It would have caused heck of a lot of damage had it landed in a big City so how come they never saw it coming.
The have predicted one to hit the Earth in 30 years time yet this was knocking on our door.
I know that about only 5% of our skies are monitored so maybe this was to close to see.

According to the scientists it was not the size of a car ..:rolleyes: it was the size of a basketball and vapourised or whatever they do 100km above the earth.

Not particularly quiet, either.

Been on the Beeb's website for at least the last 24 hours or so - I spotted the story yesterday.

Joe

Experts use the following metaphor to describe the chances of the Earth being hit by a meteor or other body in space:

Imagine the Earth as a person wandering across an eight-lane motorway in the middle of the night, with no streetlights and no lights being used by the traffic.

Not worth thinking about if you want a good night's sleep.

I saw it on Sky news every half hour whilst in a hotel too. Who was hiding it? :P


It didn't 'hit us' either - is just went pooof in the atmosphere like all the other ones that 'hit us'.

Originally posted by JoeP
Not particularly quiet, either.

Been on the Beeb's website for at least the last 24 hours or so - I spotted the story yesterday.

Joe Well yes so did I, just decided to discuss it though.

Originally posted by Cycleracer
It would have caused heck of a lot of damage had it landed in a big City so how come they never saw it coming.


why didn't they see it coming?? i will tell you- currently, using all of the available telescopes we are only able to view 1% of the sky at one time- so the first we knew about a meteor hitting us- it would be too late!!!

It happens regularly we just don't realise.