What Blew up over China?

I heard a little info about a Meteor or UFO exploded??

They were probably just testing a bomb or something. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thinking.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon3.gif

The geminid meteor showed peaks tonight, it's not at all uncommon for some earth grazers to actually detonate and explode. Happens every year somewhere. Sometimes people even get some amazing photographs of it.

No idea if that is what it was, but it's a possibility at this time anyway.

Explosion over China was apparently caused by a meteorite entering the atmosphere.

God! I would love to own a piece of that rock!

I remember a few years ago a meteorite hit ground in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. I think people were selling chunks of it on ebay, but I'm not sure.

I have a rock that looks like that laying around that I found awhile ago.

I've seen some neat art knives made from meteor fragments.

I can't remember how you do it, but I remember there was a science project that allowed you to "collect" meteorite dust in a pan of water or something. It was something I heard about in grade school. Anyone else remember?

You can collect small particles by using a magnet at your roofs downspouts or in your gutters,,

Collecting microscopic bits of metorite should be no problem. The stuff is raining down on us all the time. In fact I have heard that the second largest component of household dust (behind human skin particles) is meteorite particles. The trick is finding a big chunk. Scientists look for them in Antarctica because they are out of place on top of miles of ice.

Maybe it was a UFO?
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last night i was on my way home from somewhere, and as i was driving along a big streak of light splayed across my windsheild.

it was only a split second, but something had apparently fallen out of the sky. it looked like a glowing golfball, and had a bright tail that only lasted for a second, but the interesting thing was that the tail didn't look straight, it looked kind of squiggley.
it was impossible to tell how far away it was, whether it was the size of a football or the size of a state, or what direction it was going...

never seen anything like that before...