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2019-03-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Video: 173 Kiloton Explosion Over Bering Sea Was Asteroid Breaking Up

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 So, are we looking harder to find these or is this the sparse leading edge?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-20 07:46|| 2019-03-20 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 If humanity is going to be wiped out by an asteroid I'd just as soon not know about it in advance.

Posted by jpal 2019-03-20 10:04|| 2019-03-20 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 For comparison, Fat Man produced an explosion of about 21 kilotons. The B83? 1.2 megatons, equaling 1,200,000 tons of TNT, making it 80 times more powerful than the Little Boy. The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, set off by the USSR (in 1961), produced a 50-megaton blast.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-20 11:06|| 2019-03-20 11:06|| Front Page Top

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