Asteroid lands in woman's bed

[BushMasterBoy]

Last asteroid I know of locally was the Canon City impact. That was 1973.

https://fremontheritage.com/canon-city-meteorite-on-display-at-pcc/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWn1dKFpkZk&t=3s

[JohnnyDrama]

Does finders keepers apply in a case like this?

[BushMasterBoy]

Yes it is legal to own it. Usually they command a fairly good price when sold, especially if they are a metallic type.

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2001/pdf/5150.pdf

[Bailey Guns]

I'm always joking about how my luck goes and getting hit with a meteorite. I think I'll stop doing that...

[earplug]

Martian

[Duman]

Would have been funnier if the asteroid landed in the toilet.....

[eddiememphis]

I once left a map of Hawaii on a girl's pillow...

[def90]

87975

[FoxtArt]

We've been pretty lucky so far. The real killers are not that uncommon in our historical record.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event 1908... that was fortunately mostly uninhabited. If that blew up over something like NYC it would've taken everything out.

It did happen over cities at least once before - happened once in the Jordan Valley based on secular modern archeological studies. 3600 degrees killed *everything* there. It was the entire valley and broad area, many villages. That is probably the source of the Sodom/Gomorra story which may have underrated the decimation. Undoubtedly many other times in human history it's just our historical record keeping sucks. Especially when people only started writing recently and dead people don't write too much.

[BushMasterBoy]

This impact could wipe out the entire US power grid. Big metallic asteroid passing through the earths magnetic field. The impact was about 50,000 years ago. Research shows we have a big asteroid strike the earth every 50,000 years. So we are overdue.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

[OtterbatHellcat]

It's ironic that I asked a question about this topic in another thread days back....and two members had an answer.

Ray and I want to go to wherever the impact site is, and take it all in real time.

[BushMasterBoy]

I went to the Barringer crater, you stand on the edge and look down. It was 1980. They had a piece of moon rock on display, sliced to show composition. It was chock full of gold, platinum, uranium, etc. Just a big rock of shiny metals.

[newracer]

Collectors will pay a lot of money for one that is documented to have hit a building.