You readers have had time to figure, by now, that Damspot has slipped a nut after calling a meteorite space junk.
Lets look at the real facts.
The earth is hurtling at an amazing speed. According to astronomers, there are billions of pieces of ice and stone all around us. Tons of this ’space dust’ settle on this planet daily.
The country of Peru has had several direct hits from these so called, meteorites.
What makes Peru special? Nothing at all.
Space dust is not selective. Nothing about the rotation of the earth or the position of a country makes it any more likely that it will be hit multiple times. Living on the east coast, I can drive out to the beach areas where there is little ground clutter, and see many ’shooting stars’ every night. The funny thing is, they all seem to be only over the ocean.
Same on a visit to Coronado Island, across from San Diego. Loads of ’shooting stars’.
On a visit to the Marine Corp base at 29 Palms, California I laid out on a chaise lounge, at night and watched the sky. There is so little ground clutter, or pollution that you can actually see satellites and occasionally the space shuttle with your bare eyes, traveling across the sky……but…..no ’shooting stars’.
Back to Peru. Multiple hits in the last few years.
How many meteorites have crashed down in any suburban area of the United States?
Sure, there is an occasional piece of frozen airplane waste that crashes through a roof, most recently in New Jersey. But no meteorites.
Why, it’s almost as though we can control where the meteorites land. Amazing, Huh?
I don’t think so!
However, we can and so can the Russians, de-orbit used up satellites, and other ’secret’ junk from space. And, yes, they can determining where it’s going…..for the most part.
One place we know you won’t see it come down, with it’s payload of unshielded nuclear material, is in a populated area, either here or in Europe.
Has the earth been hit by meteorites? Sure! But, not with a frequency or same location more than once, with the destructive power that they have been describing in Peru.
Now…….as Fox sNews would say, after reading this……You Decide.