Large-ish Meteor Skims Earth's Atmosphere and Burns Up Causing No Disruption To Anyone

Problem is there are a lot of rocks up there, and being dark inert lumps, they are hard to detect.

And no-one has the budget to spend to monitor space to any effective level to plot all the near earth asteroids
 
Freakbro said:
Problem is there are a lot of rocks up there, and being dark inert lumps, they are hard to detect.

And no-one has the budget to spend to monitor space to any effective level to plot all the near earth asteroids
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This was already spotted by Nasa, but they did not inform anybody of their find.
 
Old Man said:
This was already spotted by Nasa, but they did not inform anybody of their find.
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I think the article says NASA detected the explosion after the strike in the atmosphere and didn't tell anyone *shrug*, not that they detected the asteroid on its way in?
 
We are looking at planetary defence. Take a look at the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission):

]An asteroid impactor - the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission led by the John Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory in the United States
An asteroid rendezvous spacecraft - the ESA Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM)

More:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/S...eroid_Impact_Mission/Asteroid_Impact_Mission2

The Russians are working on a missile based planetary defence system. I believe that the are planning to nuke asteroid 99942 Apophis with an ICBM.
 
Cosimo said:
We are looking at planetary defence. Take a look at the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission):

]An asteroid impactor - the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission led by the John Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory in the United States
An asteroid rendezvous spacecraft - the ESA Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM)

More:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/S...eroid_Impact_Mission/Asteroid_Impact_Mission2

The Russians are working on a missile based planetary defence system. I believe that the are planning to nuke asteroid 99942 Apophis with an ICBM.
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Thanks for the link. Will have a read later :)
 
So they knew about it, which I suspect means they knew whereabouts it would impact. Nobody lives in the ocean 600 miles off Brazil so why would they need to tell everybody?

Was apparently quite a bit smaller than the one over Russia in 2013.
 
Old Man said:
This meteor would have killed millions of people and yet little was reported about it
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It wouldn't have. It burned up in the atmosphere, as did the one in Russia. Even if it had have entered the atmosphere on a trajectory that took it over a city it still wouldn't have caused any harm.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Why inform the public and cause panic and rioting? If we were ever at risk we would die without knowing it.
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It gives those of us with a purpose built Apocalypse Shelter™ a chance to stock up, hide and wait for the zombie aftermath of an asteroid impact to calm down.
 
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