Comments on: Asteroid exploded over Indonesia weeks ago

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Latter-day Commentary » Blog Archive » It came from behind the sun — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:58:46 +0000

[...] Just last month, an asteroid that was about thirty feet across came undetected into our atmosphere and exploded only about ten miles above the surface of the earth in Indonesia. It created quite a panic in the local area and some quick thinking individual even got it on video, or at least the trailing smoke that it left behind. [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:20:56 +0000

Why not use radar instead of optical imaging telescopes to detect inbound threats?

By: ernest4

ernest4 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:13:33 +0000

If there had been a warning of perhaps 8 hrs prior to impact and that Indonesia was the definate impact zone how many people would have died of heart attacks,car crashes and various acts of violence due to panic in trying to escape projected impact area as compared to the actual loss free event. . Could it be possible that some government entity/security agency of at least one country was aware of this and said nothing?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:11:03 +0000

I understand that our solar system is currently in a “temperate ” zone that we wobble in. When we go above or below a certain point we are subject to a lot more cosmic radiation. Does anyone know where we are currently in that cycle?

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:53:19 +0000

There are patterns and cycles of asteriod contact with the earth.
the solar system calmed down in the last hundred million years.

I cant believe something as real a threat to our regions or the earthling entire lifeforse
then our scientists need to stop playing god looking for heaven, and focus on a
visual shield of
satalites and ground based units that can give possible warning in advance
, the continium of learning and having nobel ideas that make life wonderful but I see Less then required for the mass of human on the earth. world unity and shared science mat solve the problem. A World Agency. not a pooly funded usa labratories.

By: toasterhead

toasterhead — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:05:20 +0000

42. D.Rose Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Er, not necessarily. “Allah” is “God” in Arabic
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If you want to get really technical, “lah” is “God” in Arabic. “Al-lah” is “The God,” since al- is the definite article. For followers of Abrahamic faiths, of course, the capitalized “God” implies “The God,” so it’s somewhat moot.

By: Tom Hill

Tom Hill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:06:07 +0000

Don’t get me started on Katrina. There was enough advance warning to get everyone out, but a mix of government incompetence and individual ignorance (hubris?) made the job a case study in what not to do.

Someone asked about asteroids from the sun’s general direction. They’re one of the great unknowns in this whole game, since geometry won’t allow us to look for them often until we have an asteroid seeker in space. Only a couple have been found so far (I don’t remember the term given to them, and a quick search didn’t bring it up), but they’d come as a nasty surprise. It’s also possible that one with an apohelion (high point from the sun) right at Earth orbit’s radius would make it one of the more likely rocks to hit us.