Space Oddities and Curious Lack of Warning 

Steve would have had something interesting and unique to say about this. He was interested in space, science, hard science fiction, robots, and the news, which he took with a grain of the proverbial salt. As do I, but for what it's worth...

See previous blog about meteorite crashing in Russia

I'm revisiting my blog on the space oddity reported on February 15, 2013.
  

• Since I posted on my blog about a meteorite over Russia, someone advised me there was a second meteorite. She thought the second had also landed in Russia, but when I researched it, I found it had blazed over Cuba two hours before the Russian meteorite landed.

Two Meteors

• So there were two meteors, one over Cuba and two hours later, another over Russia.

• Seems odd. Here's a link to this news, which occurred on February 15, 2013, not breaking news anymore, but it's disturbing.

Meteor passes over California

• A meteor also raced across California on Feb. 15, 2013. 

Asteroid the size of a football field passed close to Earth Saturday

• I'm wondering if these events were related to the asteroid which passed close to Earth on Saturday? I'll research it some more.  

• The Telegraph reports today, on April, 9 2013, that an asteroid "the size of a football field" passed within 600,000 miles of earth on Saturday, April 6, 2013. It was too small to be seen by the naked eye.

• "Astronomers working on the Slooh Space Camera in the Canary Islands captured images of the asteroid as it passed overhead on Saturday. The object came within 600,000 miles of the Earth." 

Earth had a very close call and we weren't warned?

It seems to me that Earth had a close call, scientists didn't know what to do about it, and so we weren't warned...?????

• Asteroid Apophis is named after a mythological Egyptian demon.

• It'll come back, in 2036, and at that time could collide with Earth.

If you're interested in this space oddity please read my previous blog on the Russian fireball.

Meteorite over Russia

Explosion over Chelyabinsk

• I may be one of the few Canadians who has not heard of the meteorite fireball that exploded near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains on February 15, 2013.
  

Massive meteorites wiped out Dinosaurs?

• Some experts theorize that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteorite explosion in the Cretaceous period, which, by the way, opened the door for mammals and eventually humanity to climb up the ladder of evolution. 

• If you believe in evolution, which some do not, for reasons of their own and a quaint belief in creativity. 

Video footage of Chelyabinsk meteorite

• New footage continues to emerge from professional and amateur videos.

Is Earth in peril?

• Could a massive fireball wipe out life as we know it on Earth?
  
  
  • Are dystopian novels closer to the truth than we imagine?
  
  
  • A post-apocalyptic earth not razed by howling nuclear wastelands but by a message from God?
    
    

  Will the oceans be all that remain?

  •   What do you think?

    Fireballs and devastation in a former city

    Dolphin sporting in his watery home