"230 tons of TNT" I hate units of TNT. Ill do psi. Love the foot. The calorie is metric! But what on planet earth is "ton of TNT"? The energy that was dissipated (using 0.5 mv^2) was 1TJ, or the 280 000 kWh.
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Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts
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#62I have a Birdweather puck ( https://birdweather.com ) that listens for birds in our backyard in suburban Boston. It also measures sound pressure level (30 second sample rate). Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline. We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at…
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in Watertown on a busy road and was near an open window when it exploded. I thought a truck had slammed into my building and was baffled when I saw everything was fine.
We should grab coffee sometime, neighbor!
Mighty Squirrel is at Gore place for the summer...
Okay, maybe that's beer and closer to Waltham =P
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#64I have a Birdweather puck ( https://birdweather.com ) that listens for birds in our backyard in suburban Boston. It also measures sound pressure level (30 second sample rate). Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline. We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at…
There was an identical event two weeks ago up the coast in Prince Edward Island. We didn’t get the NASA follow-up and treatment however.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PEI/comments/1tgzjie/loud_bang_4pm/
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#65I’m around 8 miles west of Boston. I was playing on the floor with my daughter and had my ear to the ground- suddenly heard all of the windows shaking, the floor rumbled and an explosion louder than I’ve ever heard before. Honestly what spooked me the most was seeing nothing on the horizon to help explain it! I am shocked and grateful it didn’t break any windows or cause further damage.
With your ear to the ground, I’m surprised you didn’t think it was a train.
We didn’t notice it in Southern NH, but it seemed our thunderstorm phobic dog did feel the pressure change or hear it.
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#66Apparently it fell into the water. Maybe it can be recovered and made into the second coolest rock exhibit in Massachusetts (first is Plymouth Rock obviously).
This time Malcolm X’s line about “Plymouth Rock landed on us” would apply to everyone. And Plymouth Rock is very much not cool. It’s the anticlimax of a million school field trips.
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#67The meteor finally had enough of Massachusetts!
Although, the title is kind of misleading.
> with a mass of 5.6 metric tons (that's about > the weight of a large elephant.)
Elephant-sized meteor sounds scary. Must have been many elephants that extinctified the dinosaur.
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> Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months. Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie. Sleeper ships buried themselves into every state. Waiting for the mother ship to arrive.
Feels like a proper movie that political boundaries like state lines would be significant for all concerned. One meteor for Rhode Island, one for Texas... Any questions? (Asks the alien overlord of his minions in his crisp British accent)
The rest of the world, if they’re even mentioned in the plot, get one per country at most.
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#69The devastation we are seeing is unparalleled. Judging from early estimates - millions dead. A state in ruins. The meteor was shot out of orbit by Bug Plasma that derived from Klendathu, the Arachnids home planet. Nothing lives in what was once called the Turkey Paradise. Massachusetts…has been wiped off the Earth. The US Congress met moments ago and voted unanimously for mobilization to destroy the Arachnid threat.
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#70Everyone knew it didn't hit Boston when the boom wasn't followed by the sound of keyboards every government office rushing to get rid of all the rules they never wanted in the first place.