You probably heard/felt a sonic boom, they can shake houses. I have been near Cape Canaveral on multiple occasions when the space Shuttle approached and you got a double sonic boom from that. I don't know why but there was always two booms.
TF...Check out this documentary about the asteroid. Whether you want to believe it or not is up to you, but the evidence is pretty strong. Perhaps the ensuing tsunami is what caused your flood.
Regardless of your thoughts, this is a pretty thought provoking look at the possibilities. Not to mention the raw power that's packed in an asteroid. It could happen to us just as quickly!
A major impact is not a matter of if....just a matter of when. Just like the super volcano underneath Yellowstone and the "big one" that going to happen to LA, Tokyo, or Mexico City one of these days.
I'm reminded of this whenever I encounter face to face a natural force of nature like a massive thunderstorm, a tornado (thankfully only ONE of those!), or a prairie blizzard.
It's at times like this that I can feel the MASSIVE natural forces and then suddenly all the crap that was on my mind just dissolves as insignificant when I encounter a REAL reality......NATURE. Nothing comes even close.
What's really thought provoking is that this last meteor to explode in our atmosphere and cause all this attention was most likely not much bigger than a basketball. Imagine if you will, one that was the size of a car, a semi-truck or God forbid a football field.
It'd be, "Bend over and kiss your a** goodbye" time!
This little beauty in Arizona was caused by an impactor roughly 150 ft. across. Roughly equivalent to a 12 megaton hydrogen bomb. The Chicxulub impactor was 6-7 miles in diameter, and moving twice as fast.
""There's a bunch of people out looking for meteorite parts today...... people are crazy......""
Not really, meteor fragments bring big money from collectors. Go to a rock and gem show if you find a meteorite pick it up, you'll be surprised how heavy it is.
meteorite is as valuable as gold...maybe more so. Any geologist should worth their salt and lots of amateurs can identify one but they do have a chemical signature....meaning with the right test it can be proven without doubt.
Small chunks sell for $1000 a gram. I big bowling ball sized iron chondrite would make you rich.
Value depends on size, and also the meteor (or planet) it came from. Values range from $10gr. on up to $100+ per gr. There are (literally) a ton of them of the falling on the Earth each year.
Being mostly iron, they can be found with metal detectors, and I know of a few people that spend time looking for them. One of the best places to spot them are on dry lake beds out in the deserts, and you can also research the strewn fields of some of the larger ones that broke up close to ground.
Makes me wonder if we're entering a period where meteor impact reports will become more commonplace, and understandably so. I've read that even with the best observation equipment a large asteroid coming through our solar system isn't even detected until it's well past Jupiter, potentially leaving the Earth with insufficient time to prepare.
The one at the link is said to be 8/10ths of a mile long, and it's only moving at 28,000 miles an hour (they say it's slow). Can't even begin to calculate the ft. lbs. of energy that would be delivered, but let's just say it would make a huge mess. Fortunately, the Earth's not so big that our gravity will drag it in.
During the bronze age, and probably before, meteorites were valuable for their iron content since no one knew how to make iron yet. Blacksmiths would work the iron into blades, tools and amulets that were generally reserved for the royalty.
Makes me wonder about the smart guy that first figured out how to make iron...Of course I also wonder about the first guy who thought raw oysters might be good to eat...8^)
There was a guy trying to sell a hunk of concrete that he painted ....... passing it off as a meteorite...... at a pawn shop on the news today...... Ha !!!