Science Newsletter #15 - Bournemouth School for Girls

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pain, as it was aout 7 mes as ar away rom us as temoon, and it ollows a similar sort o orital to us or atleast, it did Aer tis near incident, te orital o te asteroid will cange to 317 days, meaning it wont get tisclose to Eart or aout anoter 4 years Its currentlyvacaoning in our nec o te solar system on oliday romte asteroid elt, and sources claim its avourite ting to doin its downme is visit te Goldilocs zoneo now you now everyting you ever needed to aout1 A14, ut wat aout te muc less ancipated penomena, te Russian meteor?hat was it?eteor : Noun : A small ody o maer rom outer spacetat enters te eart's atmospere, appearing as a streao ligtis denion actually sums up literally wat it was, utwat aout te sonic oom, smased windows, and watsan ral? is parcular meteor managed to get into ouratmospere aove Russia and over te rals a mountainrange aout a tousand miles rom oscow) eore exploding e wite strea seen as it sped across te sy wasust te asteroid urning up as it came into out atmospere e sonic oom is rom were it roe te soundarrier and eing so close toEart le approximately1 peopleinured andmanaged tosmas somewindows, evencausing a actoryroo to cave in e meteor eventually landed in a rozenlae, as seen in te pictureIt came closer to us than 2012 AD14, and sciensts wentcrazy about that, so why didn’t they know about this one?First off, it was uite notaly smaller tan te asteroid eRussian meteor was only 17m wide, wic is sll plentylarge enoug to do signicant damage and you denitelydont want it exploding on you, ut it was ust lie a lot ote oter deris in space untraced, small, not really tatimportant econdly, te space agencies mums all toldtem wen tey were lile to never loo directly at tesun, especially not troug an ultraigpowered telescope wic would urn out all teir renas eore teyeven realised wat was appening, so unless teyre usinga special lter wic loc 9999% o te suns ligtto oserve sunspots, tere isnt muc pointed on tederis tere is is, coincidentally, exactly were temeteor came rom Bear in mind tat tere are undreds o collisions o deris wit our atmospere on adaily asis, ut tey are very rarely ig enoug to enoceale, so tere is really not muc point in NAA,EA, JAXA or any o te agencies to invest te ugeamount o money and resources wic would eneeded to trac all o tem, on te off cance tatoneinareallyignumer would a) come anywerenear us, ) it te atmospere, c) e ig enougtat anyone could even see it, and d) not appenover an ocean were it would e a moot point anywaySo other than that, do we know where it actuallycame from?ep, and its noting to do wit 1 A14 cienstsave een woring doule me on tis one, andsome guys at university in Colomia tin teyvecraced it eyre prey sure tat it came rom anApolloclass asteroid, wic is a set o wellnownnearEart asteroids ere are aout , o tem,and te ig ones are idened as eing a signicantris to our planet at tis incident is eing considered a lucy escape I tin says enoug aout owmuc un te rest ave te potenal to e old onto your ats, ols, its going to e a umpy rideAnything else?Just te acts Firstly, te sonic oom did smas glass,ut lucily it was as ar away rom oscow as it wasHad it een muc closer, te old glass in so many ote towering curces could well ave perised Itwas travelling at aout 11, miles per our at pea,eore exploding at around 9:am local meo tats all you need to now aout te importantrocs in your lie tis mont For more apocalypcavoc, read my arcle in te next edion, wic willeiter e aout evil aliens or reanimaon, dependingon ow many zomies appear in America tis weenl ten, don your noil at and your garlicflavoured stae, and sit gt in your nuclear unerRememer, its not over unl te at lady sings ormaye unl te at man sings, since Pavaro is slldead and Adele won an scarCiao!
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