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| Thread ID: 72414 | 2006-09-12 05:07:00 | Sonic Boom in CHCH | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 484123 | 2006-09-12 05:07:00 | www.telstraclear.co.nz Read this link. |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 484124 | 2006-09-12 05:10:00 | Quite amazing to hear a sonic boom from a meteor. I heard it thinking a petrol tank or something had exploded! | jermsie (6820) | ||
| 484125 | 2006-09-12 06:46:00 | Quite amazing to hear a sonic boom from a meteor. I heard it thinking a petrol tank or something had exploded! Yes that was my first reaction - somebody locally had done something to a petrol tank or similar. It was a very large bang and apparently heard over a large area of the S.Island. Space Junk ? No way. Man made space junk, and I am assuming that this is what the police mean, is in fact made as light as possible. Can you imagine the size of rocket needed to lift a large solid object able to produce this noise? |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 484126 | 2006-09-12 07:17:00 | Can you imagine the size of rocket needed to lift a large solid object able to produce this noise? I'm sorry. I can't follow your logic. |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 484127 | 2006-09-12 08:38:00 | Can you imagine the size of rocket needed to lift a large solid object able to produce this noise? Sonic booms are caused by objects exceeding the speed of sound. Weight hasn't got a lot to do with it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 484128 | 2006-09-12 08:52:00 | Were the police testing their new tasers in CHCH by any chance? | mister harbies (5607) | ||
| 484129 | 2006-09-12 09:00:00 | I was walking down the street. At first I thought something large had been dropped from a crane, then I realised the whole sky above me was reverberating. Like thunder, but it was a cloudless day. And it went on for several seconds. Nature's power is awesome, eh? |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 484130 | 2006-09-12 09:11:00 | Meteorite fragments could fetch a tidy sum if located. Wonder how many are out there right now looking for the impact area :p Or maybe it wasn't meteor after all according to this NZ Herald readers (www.nzherald.co.nz) comment: A dome object like it was silver grey in colour . It appeared instantly a large boom then it simply disappeared. :waughh: |
Jen (38) | ||
| 484131 | 2006-09-12 10:23:00 | I bet the boy racers were thinking "What kind of bass sytem does it require to make that sound?" | gibler (49) | ||
| 484132 | 2006-09-12 10:35:00 | I'm sorry. I can't follow your logic. If space junk - man made, falls through the atmosphere it will be hollow light weight stuff - it will collapse quickly (if I remember rightly we tried to design equipment to withstand 12g max) So there will be little noise. Imagine having a heavy lorry crash and being able to hear it 60 miles away - not possible of course. To produce the noise heard today requires something very big - very dense - very solid - very heavy. To have such an man made item in space would require a rocket beyond our imagination. Certainly my guess is at least several thousand times more powerful than anything we have so far. I could be wrong. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
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