Beware! Space Junk is Coming For YOU!

 I was sitting with my koffeeklatsch this morning, here in Shaker Heights, when we heard a really loud THUD!  We thought maybe a large truck had hit the building.  But then, looking at news feeds, we found that people were reporting an "explosion" in nearby cities.  And nearby counties.  

"Meteor," I said, beating the local newsfeeds by no more than five minutes.

Yep.  A six-foot, 17,000-pound rock came down over Medina, Ohio (about 45 miles south of us), and exploded.  It was moving at 45,000 miles per hour.  Which means that a day ago, it was four times as far away as the Moon.

Wow!


So later on, I'm looking at the newsfeeds for our local channels on Facebook.  And what do I see?

Folks want to know why NASA wasn't tracking it. People want to know where it landed. People are sure this was an Iranian missile and the government just doesn't want us to panic.
Riiiight. A six-foot rock hits the atmosphere at 45,000 miles an hour and people think NASA tracks these things? It's moving at close to three times the speed of an ICBM (or, from its point of view, it's sitting in space and a furshlugginer planet comes along at that speed).
We're lucky it was so small! Tunguska could happen tomorrow, and it would take us by surprise!
Don't they teach ANY science these days?
AlextheKay despairs sometimes. Just despairs.

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