Asteroid Hits Texas With The Force Of 8 Tons Of TNT

[rondog]

Russia seems to catch hell now and then - the Tunguska event of June 30, 1908, and the Chelyabinsk event of Feb 15th, 2013. If that happened here people'd lose their fuckin' minds! Probably start screaming about banning guns all over again.

[BushMasterBoy]

[NFATrustGuy]

Three types of asteroids, irony, stony and icy. It looks like it was a stony or silicaceous. The irony type is usually mostly intact upon impact. A large one can produce a EMP. And it can knock out the grid. The last one we know of is 50,000 years ago. It hit Arizona.


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

I fly over the Winslow crater pretty regularly. If we happen to have a flight attendant in the cockpit as we fly over, I point out how close the meteor came to taking out the nearby town of Winslow. It?s pretty funny to see how they react.