Comments on: Did you hear that big giant meteor? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/ Mon, 21 May 2012 14:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Bob https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492547 Mon, 21 May 2012 14:48:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492547 I guess it won´t take long for the first meteorite hunters to get there. Let´s see what they will discover.

]]> By: g724 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492546 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:29:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492546 It appears that a couple of small pieces of meteorite have been found in the desert in California, that appear to have come from this event.

]]> By: renoite https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492545 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:58:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492545 I did not see it. I was inside at the time. I think many people heard it but only a few people happened to see it.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492544 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:05:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492544 Did you see the thing in the sky, renoite?

]]> By: renoite https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492543 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:44:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492543 Most people I talked to today in Reno heard and felt the boom. At my house it felt like a small earthquake but without the shaking, or as if a heavy piece of furniture had fallen over upstairs. After I realized it hadn’t been an earthquake I assumed it was an explosion and went outside to look for smoke. It was startling enough to wake up a sleeping member of the family.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492542 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:43:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492542 Yeah, that is a boring answer. I was thinking of a different town, a settlement called “sparks” near Somersville, California. Neither exists any more. That Sparks has an interesting name.

]]> By: cope https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492541 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:57:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/23/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me/#comment-492541 What Nevada town was named after Nevada governor John Sparks?

I’ll take “Potent Potables” for 20, Alex.

I was a bit disappointed the answer was so mundane. I once worked on a well in Nevada, in the basin and range province. On an off-day, the other geologist and I took a hike and ended up on top of a steep hill. The bedrock was some kind of siliceous dolomite and we enjoyed a lengthy period of time around and after sundown trundling large rocks down the side of the hill. They created beautiful showers of sparks as they bounced their way down the hill, careening from one bit of exposed bedrock to another.

As, the beauty of nature.

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