Killer Asteroid of 1972 - Government coverup- true size

[marrrrrrks]

Clear your throat enough?

[FunniePenguin39]

MAKE SURE ITS NOT IN LAOS! MY MOM WAS BORN IN 1972!(she's american now)

[NoGuyComesClose]

First he coughs then he say's Mountain Rocky?? Learn to edit!

[iMaGinEGrAviTy123]

well yes the asteroid was mrrrrrrr 200 km from earth mrrrrrrr and uh mrrrr it was a lie mrrrr

for fuk sake clear your throat b4 u make a video

[MaestroJah]

The average shooting star is no bigger than a pea- the reason it looks so large is because of the amount of energy released. Where did it land? It probably didn't- so I would guess if it was silicate, it couldn't have been more than several feet across. Less if it was iron. May I also recommend Vicks throat lozenges...

[Dankdillweed]

What is seen is a massive expanding shroud of plasma that is burning off the object due to atmospheric friction. The actual object would be much, much smaller than the plasma shroud. You can never measure the fireball and think you're measuring the object.

[gregod10]

15 miles per second is 3 times the speed of a space shuddle traveling in space

[lita4life84]

can this guy clear his throat out one more time,,

[ffeijdrug]

Stay in school , kid, I'm sure you'll learn to punctuate and use capital letters, someday....ho hum. Do you really think you can see a 45 ft. diameter object at hundreds of miles distance? It was not 45 ft. in diameter, munchkin. I saw it from directly beneath, in Idaho. To the eye, from there, it was about the size of the moon. The photo used here was AT LEAST 125 miles line of sight to the object. Do the math.

[ZakThrasher]

@ffeijdrug I'm an astronautical engineer...

If you saw an object that was about the size of the moon in the sky, burning through our atmosphere that asteroid would have collided with earth due to the massive cross sectional area and amount of relative velocity lost in the interaction.

[gingerkidfails99]

dude, do you think your stephen hawking?

[ffeijdrug]

Oops, I meant Alberta Canada, not Quebec.  Have now added corrective annotation.

[BannySadko]

Idaho...Wyoming... Montana... and QUEBEC?? Quebec is nowhere NEAR these three states. I think somebody's diaper is full.

[NingyoAijin]

Sigh... It passed through the atmosphere at incredible velocity, as meteors do, and caused it to burn up in the atmosphere, producing large amounts of light. That's why you could see it, and not airliners who don't travel anywhere near that velocity.

[ffeijdrug]

@NingyoAijin You can see the trail of smoke in the photo. Do you really think you can see a 45ft wide smoke trail at 125 miles? If so , you are dreaming.

[NingyoAijin]

The trail is bound to be much thicker than the Boloid due to the fact that it's going about 1.5x10^4ms^-1. It carries such a large velocity that it causes an incredibly thick trail.

It's a small asteroid -_-

[ffeijdrug]

@NingyoAijin See my more recent vid on it. Contains a never before published photo. A 45ft object would not create a 1 or 2 mile wide smoke trail.

See at my channel.

[Kaydreein]

@ffeijdrug Smoke tends to be much larger in volume than the object that is burning. That's why a small yard fire can fill up a good portion of the sky. Light a match, observe how much larger the flame is than the actual match head upon ignition.

[DanFrederiksen]

2 miles is a sizable mountain. people tend to notice flying mountains and they are quite a bit more visible than a tiny white dot. I think you made a few erroneous conclusions

[ffeijdrug]

@DanFrederiksen

The object was about 125 miles from camera. The mountain used, in the calulations, is one mile in height, above the lake. Do the math, that is , measure the asteroid and compare it to the size of the mountain, then input that it is 125 miles away, and mountain is 6 miles away. What was photographed is just how a 2 mi. diameter asteroid would be seen at that range.

[DanFrederiksen]

@ffeijdrug if the mountain is at 6 miles and 1 mile high then your meteor would be twice that. 125miles is about 20 times further away so 20 times smaller diameter than twice the mountain.

that's this big: df-cad. dk/web/2milemeteor.jpg

and that's without the fireball around it.

you are simply wrong.

[ffeijdrug]

@DanFrederiksen

Looking at the photo, I realize it was actually 3.6875 miles to Mt. Moran, not 6 miles.

So you have: 3.6875mi. / 125 (2) = 0.059 , if it is about 2 mile diameter. About 17 times smaller than mountain, which I now see it 'is not'. I get a 1/16 of an inch compared to about 2 inches [full size of photo]. So it is closer to ONE mile diameter than two miles. I can go in and use anotations to correct myself. Does above look about right to you?

Steve

[DanFrederiksen]

@ffeijdrug the math is but your conclusion on the size most likely isn't. even if we take the entire light ploom as size it might be a few hundred meters wide. but of course the light ploom is not the size of the meteor. the meteor itself is much smaller.

you made a mistake, it happens. don't hold on to it. delete the video and dust yourself off for another day.

Dan

[ffeijdrug]

@DanFrederiksen

I have corrected vid with annotations. I was eye witness, directly under perigee. Flames went behind it, not outward from it. I saw it up close. According to "official", it was only thirty some miles overhead where I was. What you see in the photo in my vid is the body of the object, with flames and smoke behind. What we saw, from right underneath was astounding. Monsterous! About the size of the moon in our view. No sound. No sonic boom. I now wish I had a camera!

[DanFrederiksen]

@ffeijdrug I'm sure it was impressive but the pictures we have simply does not support such a size.

maybe it was bigger than the 10meter of the official estimate, I'm not an expert in what size meteor results in what size ploom but the ploom is not smaller than the meteor. with the low quality image I had it could be no more than a few hundred meters and with a sharper photo I imagine it will be much smaller. you have to respect that you made a mistake.

these happen regularly, some hit earth

[DanFrederiksen]

@ffeijdrug btw it's not just 'gov' who makes these calls. gov might not even have been involved. I think it's various private astronomer groups who have the expertise that make the estimates.

some branches of gov no doubt lie to us, and I fully expect they are keeping very massive secrets but this wouldn't be it.

[TheRealBlackHair]

Why would the government cover up its true size?

[ffeijdrug]

@TheRealBlackHair

To avoid panic. In 1972 we did not have the capability to stop such a rock. During the Bush administration NASA did a practice run, by nukeing an asteroid out in space, which worked well. Direct hit. We are now prepared if we become a target again.

[smimot]

ffeijdrug, great work on this historical event. I commend you on the asteroid size estimation. When I first saw the video I knew the 45ft. diameter guess was way off. You most certainly did your homework. Now I'm trying to find out where this visitor entered Earths atmosphere and then left it. God was merciful to the North American continent that day.