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From Space with Love: February Fireballs Nothing New

The Great Canadien Fireball Train of February 9, 1913 as painted by Gustav Hahn See Tusk, December 2, 2010 Just sayin’: “They all hail from the asteroid belt—but not from a single location in the asteroid belt,” he says. “There is no common source for these fireballs, which is puzzling.”….. Brown explains: “Back in the 1960s and 70s, amateur astronomers…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Napier on the Recent Russian Blast, Phil Plait, the Harvard Discovery of Platinum in The Younger Dryas -- and Intellectual Integrity

“I’m trying to piece together what happened from the videos. First of all, I do not think this is related in any way to the asteroid 2102 DA14! For one thing, this occurred about 16 hours before DA14 passes. At 8 kilometers per second that’s nearly half a million kilometers away from DA14. That puts it on a totally different orbit.” — Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, February 15…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question