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Originally Posted by Overflow
Well the video is a little tricky here. The explosion was very far away from the ground. While sound is fast.. it still takes some time to travel. If anyone were very close to the explosion, they would've heard it ASAP. But the people in these videos are miles away from the explosion. So what they heard was the sonic boom when it finally made it to them.
I hope I made enough sense there.
Oh yeah these two meteors aren't related in any way.
Not that this has much to do with this event.. But if you knew that the entire population of earth was doomed because a meteor was heading our way, and nothing could be done, would you tell the general public?
This meteor was nothing like Tunguska. If it was, the casualties would be much larger.
Incorrect. It was much larger.
Here is the largest fragment found. It's around 6 meters long. Which is 20 feet long.
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That's just the hole in the ice it left, not necessarily the size of the fragment. If they manage to dredge the thing up from the lake then we may have a better idea of how big this thing was. Destructive power of these things depends on speed (which was pretty considerable) and composition as well as size.
Either way though, I'm sure we can all agree that this should help raise awareness of exactly why need a proper space industry to monitor and move/take advantage of these things before they drop on us
