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Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu
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meteorite impact on Earth? Statistically speaking I know it's like 1 in a billion billion that a person would be directly hit by a meteorite, so this is NOT a question about a paranoid schizophrenia of the outdoors or anything.
I asked a question about a bright object in the night sky yesterday morning, and an answerer said it was venus, and that it'd look even better this morning, so when I went to have a look it wasn't that great but I saw a shooting star streak across the star, and made a wish, and then started thinking about how a shooting star is just a meteorite skimming the edge of our atmosphere, and how if Earth was in a collision course with a fast moving, very small, very hard (like diamond) meteorite that passed through our atmosphere at an almost perfect 90 deg to the surface, it would look to onlookers in the distance like a cross between a white laser and a lightning bolt, and because of it's speed and it's angle of approach no one would see it coming, there would be no warning, and it could impact anywhere, even to strike someone dead where they stand like a bullet from a gun fired from space.
So I started wondering how often does our surface receive impacts from objects originally from space (not counting dead satellites, junk from one of the space stations, anything man made, etc).
I asked a question about a bright object in the night sky yesterday morning, and an answerer said it was venus, and that it'd look even better this morning, so when I went to have a look it wasn't that great but I saw a shooting star streak across the star, and made a wish, and then started thinking about how a shooting star is just a meteorite skimming the edge of our atmosphere, and how if Earth was in a collision course with a fast moving, very small, very hard (like diamond) meteorite that passed through our atmosphere at an almost perfect 90 deg to the surface, it would look to onlookers in the distance like a cross between a white laser and a lightning bolt, and because of it's speed and it's angle of approach no one would see it coming, there would be no warning, and it could impact anywhere, even to strike someone dead where they stand like a bullet from a gun fired from space.
So I started wondering how often does our surface receive impacts from objects originally from space (not counting dead satellites, junk from one of the space stations, anything man made, etc).