Here it is January 22, 2010 and I have had my head in books about, or by, R. Buckminster Fuller and contemplating what will be, that might be.
Bob sent me a couple of URL links and I just had to stop and pass this bit on to you.
Lorton, VA., is just south of Washington D.C. and near where my Army daughter is stationed at Ft. Belvoir, VA, so it did get my attention. Meteorite falls through the roof of a doctors office and about the size of a baseball before it broke apart.
They were kind enough to send it to the Smithsonian for study. I wonder where it would have been sent if it had fallen through the roof of the White House.
There is a nice video clip at the link but I haven't seen anything on our local news here in northern California. I guess a baseball size hole in your roof is not the same as a 7.1 earthquake on a nearby island country.
You don't expect earthquakes (unless you live where I do) but then you don't expect rocks to fall out of the sky either. Didn't a 10-meter wide asteroid just fly by two days after it was discovered? (2010 AL30) Now if that had dropped in at the Pentagon it would have raised some eyebrows.
Will add a few more informational links for you consideration.
Happy New Year.
- LRK -
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http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/national/doctors-office-hit-by-meteorite-0121101264170289032
Doctor's Office Hit By Meteorite
Updated: Friday, 22 Jan 2010, 2:11 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 21 Jan 2010, 9:39 AM EST
By JOHN HENREHAN/myfoxdc
When Lawrence Reese was cleaning up his sub shop in Lorton, Virginia, late Monday afternoon, he heard a tremendous impact outside.
"Loud. Loud enough [that] you could hear it, maybe, a block or two away," recalls Reese. "I'm surprised it didn't break our glass. That's how loud it was."
Something had come hurtling out of the sky, and crashed through the roof of a nearby doctor's office, landing in an empty examination room.
"I thought something fell in Dr. Gallini's office," explained his partner, Dr. Frank Ciampi. "I thought a bookshelf fell on him, so I ran out and saw that he was okay. And then I looked to the left and saw the debris in the hallway."
The debris was smoldering and metallic. The two physicians puzzled over the items. Whatever had come through the roof had broken into several pieces. The two doctors speculated that part of an airliner had come off and fallen through their roof. A nearly circular hole was punched through the building's roof.
An acquaintance suggested the possibility of a meteorite, so the debris was sent to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum in nearby Washington, D.C.
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Here is a link to the MSNBC "Mystery object whizzes past Earth harmlessly" article.
- LRK -
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34826596/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Mystery object whizzes past Earth harmlessly
Scientists debate its origins but conclude it was likely an asteroid
updated 5:50 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 13, 2010
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/news.html
A near-Earth object hurtled past us on Wednesday, just two days after its discovery was announced.
Orbital projections indicated that the object called 2010 AL30 flew by Earth at a distance of just 80,000 miles (130,000 kilometers). That's only one-third of the way from here to the moon.
If the object had been on a collision course with Earth, it wouldn't have done any damage anyway. But planetary scientists said the asteroid, or whatever it was, set a new standard: A 10-meter-wide (33-foot-wide) asteroid can be detected two days before it potentially hits Earth.
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Note: A link on the page to some MSNBC videos about same and similar.
Gets rather silly. Enjoy if you don't mind viewing a 30 second ad first.
- LRK -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34831765#34738196
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This JPL link has some news about recent Near Earth Objects that have gone by.
- LRK -
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http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
Small Asteroid 2010 AL30 To Fly Past The Earth
January 12, 2010
Asteroid 2010 AL30, discovered by the LINEAR survey of MIT's Lincoln Laboratories on Jan. 10, will make a close approach to the Earth's surface to within 76,000 miles on Wednesday January 13 at 12:46 pm Greenwich time (7:46 EST, 4:46 PST).
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news167.html
Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth
November 9, 2009
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2009 VA, which is only about 7 meters in size, passed about 2 Earth radii (14,000 km) from the Earth's surface Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST. This is the third-closest known (non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news166.html
Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia
October 23, 2009
On October 8, 2009 about 03:00 Greenwich time, an atmospheric fireball blast was observed and recorded over an island region of Indonesia. The blast is thought to be due to the atmospheric entry of a small asteroid about 10 meters in diameter that, due to atmospheric pressure, detonated in the atmosphere with an energy of about 50 kilotons (the equivalent of 110 million pounds of TNT explosives). The blast was recorded visually and reported upon by local media representatives. See the YouTube video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQBzTkJNhs&videos=jkRJgbXY-90
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Here is the link to Space Weather with more kinds of information and near the bottom a table of near misses that might have brightened your sky if they had been dead on.
- LRK -
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http://spaceweather.com/
What's Up in Space January 22, 2010
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Near-Earth Asteroids
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.
On January 22, 2010 there were 1093 potentially hazardous asteroids.
Jan. 2010 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Mag. Size
2010 AL2 Jan. 11 11.5 LD 20 23 m
24761 Ahau Jan. 11 70.8 LD 16 1.4 km
2000 YH66 Jan. 12 69.5 LD 17 1.1 km
2010 AL30 Jan. 13 0.3 LD 14 18 m
Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.
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I have just finished reading R. Buckminster Fuller's "NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON" and "Critical Path". I highly recommend reading if you would like to learn more about what had transpired through out history right up to 1980. I hope someone is writing about the last 30 years because a lot of the behind the doors, using your money for other people's gain, still goes on. He had some suggestions on how that might be changed but I don't see it happening.
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Doctor's Office Hit By Meteorite
Updated: Friday, 22 Jan 2010, 2:11 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 21 Jan 2010, 9:39 AM EST
By JOHN HENREHAN/myfoxdc
When Lawrence Reese was cleaning up his sub shop in Lorton, Virginia, late Monday afternoon, he heard a tremendous impact outside.
"Loud. Loud enough [that] you could hear it, maybe, a block or two away," recalls Reese. "I'm surprised it didn't break our glass. That's how loud it was."
Something had come hurtling out of the sky, and crashed through the roof of a nearby doctor's office, landing in an empty examination room.
"I thought something fell in Dr. Gallini's office," explained his partner, Dr. Frank Ciampi. "I thought a bookshelf fell on him, so I ran out and saw that he was okay. And then I looked to the left and saw the debris in the hallway."
The debris was smoldering and metallic. The two physicians puzzled over the items. Whatever had come through the roof had broken into several pieces. The two doctors speculated that part of an airliner had come off and fallen through their roof. A nearly circular hole was punched through the building's roof.
An acquaintance suggested the possibility of a meteorite, so the debris was sent to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum in nearby Washington, D.C.
snip
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Here is a link to the MSNBC "Mystery object whizzes past Earth harmlessly" article.
- LRK -
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
Mystery object whizzes past Earth harmlessly
Scientists debate its origins but conclude it was likely an asteroid
updated 5:50 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 13, 2010
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/
A near-Earth object hurtled past us on Wednesday, just two days after its discovery was announced.
Orbital projections indicated that the object called 2010 AL30 flew by Earth at a distance of just 80,000 miles (130,000 kilometers). That's only one-third of the way from here to the moon.
If the object had been on a collision course with Earth, it wouldn't have done any damage anyway. But planetary scientists said the asteroid, or whatever it was, set a new standard: A 10-meter-wide (33-foot-wide) asteroid can be detected two days before it potentially hits Earth.
snip
Note: A link on the page to some MSNBC videos about same and similar.
Gets rather silly. Enjoy if you don't mind viewing a 30 second ad first.
- LRK -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
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This JPL link has some news about recent Near Earth Objects that have gone by.
- LRK -
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http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
Small Asteroid 2010 AL30 To Fly Past The Earth
January 12, 2010
Asteroid 2010 AL30, discovered by the LINEAR survey of MIT's Lincoln Laboratories on Jan. 10, will make a close approach to the Earth's surface to within 76,000 miles on Wednesday January 13 at 12:46 pm Greenwich time (7:46 EST, 4:46 PST).
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/
Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth
November 9, 2009
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2009 VA, which is only about 7 meters in size, passed about 2 Earth radii (14,000 km) from the Earth's surface Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST. This is the third-closest known (non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/
Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia
October 23, 2009
On October 8, 2009 about 03:00 Greenwich time, an atmospheric fireball blast was observed and recorded over an island region of Indonesia. The blast is thought to be due to the atmospheric entry of a small asteroid about 10 meters in diameter that, due to atmospheric pressure, detonated in the atmosphere with an energy of about 50 kilotons (the equivalent of 110 million pounds of TNT explosives). The blast was recorded visually and reported upon by local media representatives. See the YouTube video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
snip
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Here is the link to Space Weather with more kinds of information and near the bottom a table of near misses that might have brightened your sky if they had been dead on.
- LRK -
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http://spaceweather.com/
What's Up in Space January 22, 2010
snip
Near-Earth Asteroids
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.
On January 22, 2010 there were 1093 potentially hazardous asteroids.
Jan. 2010 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Mag. Size
2010 AL2 Jan. 11 11.5 LD 20 23 m
24761 Ahau Jan. 11 70.8 LD 16 1.4 km
2000 YH66 Jan. 12 69.5 LD 17 1.1 km
2010 AL30 Jan. 13 0.3 LD 14 18 m
Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.
snip
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I have just finished reading R. Buckminster Fuller's "NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON" and "Critical Path". I highly recommend reading if you would like to learn more about what had transpired through out history right up to 1980. I hope someone is writing about the last 30 years because a lot of the behind the doors, using your money for other people's gain, still goes on. He had some suggestions on how that might be changed but I don't see it happening.
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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