Dave, Earth Grazing "Meteorites" have been known to enter Earth's atmosphere and break up into multiple "pieces". A large one came in 1860, after the Carrington Event/Solar Storm in 1859.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-grazing_fireball I studied Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that struck Jupiter in 1994 and a few things stuck out that helped lead me to my comet nuclei/dark matter theory: 1) Shoemaker Levy broke into 21 separate nuclei, ripped apart gravitationally by Jupiter 2) Astronomers had expected to see the fireballs from the impacts, but did not have any idea in advance how visible the atmospheric effects of the impacts would be from Earth. Observers soon saw a huge dark spot after the first impact. The spot was visible even in very small telescopes, and was about 6,000 km (3,700 mi) (one Earth radius) across. This and subsequent dark spots were thought to have been caused by debris from the impacts, and were markedly asymmetric, forming crescent shapes in front of the direction of impact.[16]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9#cite_note-Hammel-16> 3) One dark spot was the size of the pacific ocean 4) Radio observations revealed a sharp increase in continuum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body> emission at a wavelength of 21 cm. This was thought to be synchrotron radiation. 5) About an hour after fragment K entered Jupiter, observers recorded auroral <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(phenomenon)> emission near the impact region, as well as at the antipode<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodal_point> of the impact site (The antipode is the opposite side of Jupiter from the impact) with respect to Jupiter's strong magnetic field<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field>. The cause of these emissions was difficult to establish due to a lack of knowledge of Jupiter's internal magnetic field<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field> and of the geometry of the impact sites 6) Counterintuitively, the atmospheric temperature dropped to normal levels much more quickly at the larger impact sites than at the smaller sites 7) Astronomers did not observe large amounts of water following the collisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9 Of course I took some of the above oddities to help reinforce my theory that comet nuclei are clumped dark matter and fragment K actually orbited THROUGH and around Jupiter for awhile... 8) The good news in my model is that although the universe is probably teeming with massive amounts of dark matter/energy, most of it is very tiny, energetic and gravitationally clumped in space. A typical coronal mass ejection (CME) is 1e+12 kg. If you take a micro black hole ball of entropy weighing 1e+10 kg or 1% of that CME mass, its radius would be 1.5e-17 meters. In other words, relatively massive dark matter particles are tiny and weakly interacting so their effects are fairly minimal unless they orbit through and around the Earth for awhile, triggering low pressure disturbances in the atmosphere and sinkhole/seismic events in the Earth. I have some videos on my blog and I believe relatively massive dark matter particles are orbiting in an elliptical Kepler orbit in the dark band between a double rainbow known as Alexander's band, named after some dude from 200 AD wearing a toga. I believe double rainbows are condensing water vapor, electrically charging the atmosphere and triggering intense low pressure systems. They are seen many times after severe storms, tornadoes and derichos. Items 1-7 were from Wilkipedia, item 8 is my gravitationally warped view of the world. Stewart darkmattersalot.com On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:26 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been wondering about another possible situation with regard to the > near miss. What are the chances that gravitational gradient from the Earth > might break this asteroid into many smaller pieces that then might cause > havoc in small chunks. Remember the large comet that impacted Jupiter. It > was torn into a long chain of individual meteors or whatever you want to > call them by a similar close encounter. > > Does anyone have information concerning this scenario? > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:13 pm > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully > > The unspoken assumption is that the asteroid is composed of normal > matter – and if so, then it would take substantial mass to deflect it. > > What would be the effect of an asteroid composed of “other” kinds of > matter – such as mirror matter in our solar system, and was there a > precedent for that already (1908) ? > > It is true that Antimatter may not exist in our galaxy, but mirror matter > could coexist. There is the Wiki site but it is deficient on many details: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_matter > > …there are some who think that the Tunguska event was a comet or asteroid > composed of another kind of matter. Notably, Robert Foot has expressed a > fairly convincing hypothesis… and if the Siberia event was a true precedent > for the aftermath of an even closer near-miss then, then we can surmise a > small satellite could be more problematic following a collision than its > mass would suggest. > > http://books.google.com/books/about/Shadowlands.html?id=3evE2K-ylVIC > > > *Robin wrote* > > > This one is not as wide as it is long, so I estimate the mass at about > 70000 > tons. > > > So it is about the same as a 1.5 ton car whacking into 20 g songbird. > Not likely to deflect the path much. But even a tiny effect will change the > orbit significantly over time. That is why they are talking about > deflection techniques for meteorites such as painting one side white, to > increase the effect of sunlight. Like a Crooks radiometer. > > - Jed > >
