Massive object crashes over Edmonton, Canada, page 21

Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Ok as Unknown Truth posted there is a video of it striking the earth.

It's not striking the Earth. It just looks like that. See my earlier posts, or my "stickie" on this forum for a full explanation

Originally posted by Phage
There is a possibility it did not land. It could have skipped off of the upper atmosphere and gone back into space.

Some of the reports and videos are conflicting. Earlier on I thought there was a good possibility it grazed or skimmed the atmosphere, but the video on spacewaether and a couple of others indicate that the radiant was high in the sky, and it doesn't look much like a grazer either. Leonids are out, and Taurids are looking unlikely... It's too fast for Junk.

This is looking more and more like a small random asteroid.

Originally posted by red_leader
This question I pose to you: When objects of this size are supposed to be clearly visible in the sky, don`t the scientists/astro-physicists/NASA/Galileo's of the world usually know in advance???

It seems to me every couple of weeks we hear about some meteor shower or comet that we're supposed to be able to see, how could they have missed this?

The answer is, that objects of this size are not all that clearly visible in the sky, at least not until the last few seconds!

The object which caused this fireball was probably no bigger than 1-2m , perhaps 3m... and there are lots of chunks of rock of that size out there. It's almost impossible to spot rocks in the 1-5m size range, and keep track of them all, but there is little point since they don't pose much of a threat to us. All they do is make pretty light shows (ok - awesome light shows

), and give us samples once in a while.

It's the 10, 20, 30, or 50m + sized rocks that are starting (in this size range) to become a danger to us (possible Tunguska sized event at the upper end of this range). We might expect to see one like that every 50-100 years.

What people saw tonight occurs somewhere on this Earth (usually out of sight, over sea, uninhabited terrain, or in daylight) perhaps once every month or two. It's only unusual because so many saw it over a populated area.

Originally posted by GioTheGreek

He calmly said that it was because of the meteors gases.... but I didn't buy that either.

Thanks for the wiki link. Very interesting stuff. Star and flagged

Not sure about that wiki link (I only had a quick browse), but meteors usually appear the way they do due to the gases present in our atmosphere at various altitudes, which is usually tempered by the composition. Meteors when they are first seen appear to be green because Oxygen is more prevalent than nitrogen at the altitude where meteors first become visible. Lower down, nitrogen is more prevalent and meteors appear to be red. See this post I made about it, including some examples.

Originally posted by red_leader
What about Hubble, Spitzer or other large telescopes?? Is it possible that thy captured images of this?

No. They could not react fast enough, and they could not focus properly either amongst other things.

reply to post by mikesingh

If you check my previous posts Mike, you'll see why it's not possible that this was a Leonid.

Originally posted by brettcal82
Dont You find it a bit funny by looking at the size of that thing in the video, theres no videos being uploaded to youtube, nothing on the news and no casualties or anything reported that by looking at it had to cause some serious damage

This may well hit the MSM, if it has not already. It'll probably be lower down the list of priority if your local news is anything like mine...

I hope that answered a few more questions. I have to get some shut-eye now as it's well past my bed time, and I can't get up too late! I'll be back as soon as I can