And that's on top of the fact divers found nothing underwater. Not the first time round ice holes appear http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/30/geothermal-ice-circles-in-russia ’s-lake-baikal/
Can you say vacuuuuuuuuum energy On Thursday, February 28, 2013, David Roberson wrote: > One issue that seems very odd is that the hole in the ice is so nice and > round. And, there does not appear to be much ice ejected from the area > where the meteorite entered. I would have expected to see a large number > of big chunks of ice lying around. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ChemE Stewart <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> > To: vortex-l <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> > Sent: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 1:15 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor coincidence odds > > The primary assumption in the Arxiv paper I referenced is that the > meteor tracked in a line to the 25' dia hole in the ice > > "Assuming that the hole in the ice sheet of Lake Cherbakul was produced > by a fragment > of the meteoroid is also a very important hypothesis of this work. More > importantly, our > conclusions relies strongly onto assume that the direction of the > trajectory of the fragment > responsible for the breaking of the ice sheet in the Lake, is essentially > the same as the > direction of the parent body." > > You would think a 50kton blast might knock pieces off track a bit. > > Stewart > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Alexander Hollins < > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> if it were in orbit around it, there would have been an additional vector >> to its motion. Tracking information verified a straight line trajectory >> from what I've read. Good thought though. >> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Edmund Storms >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> >> > wrote: >> >>> I suggested an explanation that apparently was lost in the discussion. >>> Suppose each asteroid has a swarm of smaller rocks in orbit around it. >>> Suppose one of these rocks was in an orbit that caused it to approach the >>> earth from the opposite direction at the time of the meteor strike in >>> Russia. Overlooked in this discussion was at least one other large meteor >>> reported near Cuba, which could have been part of the same swarm. This is >>> important because any close encounter with an asteroid might result in the >>> earth being bombarded by large rocks coming from directions different from >>> the path of the asteroid as the asteroid gets close. This makes protection >>> that much more difficult. >>> >>> Ed >>> >>> >>> >>> On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: >>> >>> I would point out: >>>> >>>> 1. The event did occur. >>>> >>>> 2. A causal connection between the two objects seems exceedingly >>>> unlikely, since they came from different directions at different times. No >>>> one has suggested how there could be a connection, as far as I know. >>>> >>>> 3. Therefore it is coincidence, no matter how unlikely that may seem. >>>> >>>> - Jed >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
