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UFOs over Turkey

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Today is asteroid day!

An asteroid discovered JUST YESTERDAY entered the earth’s atmosphere over Sudan at 7:46 pm PST yesterday evening. Probability of impact is 99.8% in the area of 21N 33E. I hope some footage of this turns up. Aside from some great footage that I hope turns up, this is important because this is the first time that an asteroid on a collision course was spotted and tracked before impact.

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From NASA’s spaceweather.com:

If predictions were correct, asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth this morning (Oct. 7th at 0246 UT), exploding in the atmosphere over northern Sudan like a kiloton of TNT and creating a fireball as bright as a full Moon. Most of the 3-meter-wide asteroid would have vaporized in the atmosphere with only small pieces possibly reaching the ground as meteorites.
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2008 TC3 was discovered on Oct. 6th by astronomers using the Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona as part of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey for near-Earth objects. Asteroids the size of 2008 TC3 hit Earth every few months, but this is the first time one has been discovered before it hit.

This pre-impact image is from Paolo Beltrame of CAST Astronomical Observatory, Talmassons, Italy. See spaceweather.com for more information.

The Fabulous Fark Candidate Thread!

This fabulous Fark.com thread is full of hilarious analogies of the presidential candidates in reference to pop culture. For what it’s worth, Godwin’s Law (”As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”) is cleverly fulfilled in 1 day, 4 hours, 3 minutes, 28 seconds by Fark user spill_thrill.

I pulled my faves for future reference. Continue reading The Fabulous Fark Candidate Thread!…