Well, I guess we’ll have to wait for a booth review to be sure …
There are some doubts being raised about whether it actually was a space rock or an ordinary explosion. To me, that crater doesn’t look like what a meteorite is likely to make, but I’m not an expert, so that means nothing. We’ll have to wait for an analysis of the rocks. It should not take that long; meteorites have distinctive characteristics not shared by any Earth rocks.
How on Earth did they calculate these odds?
Given that the Earth’s population is over 7 billion, and nobody has ever been killed by an asteroid in recorded history, I call BS. At the very least you need to specify a time scale.
"they concluded it was the result of a meteorite fall with the help of a senior scientist who was camping in Vellore due to a similar incident two weeks ago. - See more at: Meteorite did it: CM Jayalalithaa on Vellore death | India News,The Indian Express "
What ?? a similar incident just two weeks ago ? … Meteors are targetting Vellore ? or is it really some sort of terrorism ?
There wouldn’t be much trace of touch powder…
Space rocks fall onto Earth all the time, every day, multiple times per day. Some times of the year, due to where the Earth is in its orbit, they’re even more common than usual. It’s just that the falling rocks don’t usually hit people.
This is probably a speculation of a large asteroid blowing up in the atmosphere over a populated area, in a way sufficient to destroy that area or create a tsunami. I’m thinking in terms of another Tunguska event, or, according to the terrific program NOVA has aired, Chelyabinsk had the meteorite come in at a slightly steeper angle.
Some scientists believe (and I happen to agree with them) that the Chicago fire of 1871, and the concurrent Peshtigo forest fire and some other fires in the region too, were the result of multiple meteorite strikes. The death tolls from those fires were in the hundreds, if not thousands.
It’s the North Koreans, right? Only their scientists would lob meteorites at random people, surely?
NASA says it wasn’t a meteorite that killed the poor guy…
She was udderly huge.
The Meteorites have gotten to NASA! :eek: