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  .p12 nothing lives inside 5 km, 800 km2 stripped bare, 1 km2 crater, 200 m deep   .p12 nothing lives inside 5 km, 800 km2 stripped bare, 1200 m crater, 170 m deep
  .p18 300,000 visitors per year
 .p31 4 kg meteorite 1954 Sylacauga Alabama hits 34 yo Anne Hodeges, in Tuscaloosa Museum of Natural History
  .p32 many other "unconfirmed" cases and deaths
 .p34 Piazzi 1801 Ceres Himmelpolizei . . 1802 Pallas . . 1807 Juno Vesta
 .p36 [[ https://www.nasa.gov/psyche | NASA $850M probe to Psyche Launch 2022 Arrive 2026 ]]
 .p39 1997 XF11 close pass 2028 . . . 5km 4179 Toutatis next close approach 2029
 .p40 city-killer-sized twice per century (somewhere)
 .p43 400 discovered by 1900
 .p40 Lawyer Daniel M. Barringer, Princeton 1879, mining, 1896 Commonwealth Gold/Silver Mine in sw Arizona
 .p50 Dr. Albert E. Foote, collectable minerals, gathered >100 meteorites, one 200-pounder; then Volz collected 20,000 pounds, $1.25/pound
 .p53 1891 prominent scientst Grove Karl (G.K.) Gilbert claimed steam explosion
 .p56 Western Union Telegraphic Codebook 1903
 .p57 Barringer assumes million tonne metal asteroid, claims mining patent, plans to dig out iron 200 feet deep, starts digging 1904, drills down to 1000 feet
 .p65 1929 astronomer Forest Ray Moulton calculates asteroid destroyed by impact, Barringer dies of heart attack age 69
 .p66 UAZ John L. Lewis, Mining the Sky, 2014 Asteroid Mining 101, chief scientist for Deep Space Industries
  . Platinum Group Metals not worth it except as byproduct of space construction material harvest
 .p71 Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) act of 2015 exempts American citicesns from 1967 Outer Space Treaty
 .p74 1971, IAU 15 km Barringer Crater on the far side of Moon
 .p75 Tunguska June 30, 1908, 1927 Kulik expedition
 .p87 Cosmic pluralism, Scottish author/minister [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dick_(scientist)#/media/File:Dick_thomas_celestial_scenery_p305_population_of_solar_system.jpg | Thomas Dick ]] claims 21,891,974,404,480 living inhabitants in Solar System, 5 billion on moon
 

Fire In The Sky

Bvtn 523.44 DIL . . 2019 . . Gordon L. Dillow (AZ Journalist)

https://gordondillow.com/


History, a few interviews, some reasonably current information

  • p1 meteor over Arizona 2016 June 2, light and sound, 500 tonnes TNT, not detected beforehand
  • p7 Meteor Crater impact, 50 Kya, 18 km/s, 50 meter diameter, nickle-iron
    • p12 nothing lives inside 5 km, 800 km2 stripped bare, 1200 m crater, 170 m deep
    • p18 300,000 visitors per year
  • p31 4 kg meteorite 1954 Sylacauga Alabama hits 34 yo Anne Hodeges, in Tuscaloosa Museum of Natural History
    • p32 many other "unconfirmed" cases and deaths
  • p34 Piazzi 1801 Ceres Himmelpolizei . . 1802 Pallas . . 1807 Juno Vesta
  • p36 NASA $850M probe to Psyche Launch 2022 Arrive 2026

  • p39 1997 XF11 close pass 2028 . . . 5km 4179 Toutatis next close approach 2029
  • p40 city-killer-sized twice per century (somewhere)
  • p43 400 discovered by 1900
  • p40 Lawyer Daniel M. Barringer, Princeton 1879, mining, 1896 Commonwealth Gold/Silver Mine in sw Arizona
  • p50 Dr. Albert E. Foote, collectable minerals, gathered >100 meteorites, one 200-pounder; then Volz collected 20,000 pounds, $1.25/pound

  • p53 1891 prominent scientst Grove Karl (G.K.) Gilbert claimed steam explosion
  • p56 Western Union Telegraphic Codebook 1903
  • p57 Barringer assumes million tonne metal asteroid, claims mining patent, plans to dig out iron 200 feet deep, starts digging 1904, drills down to 1000 feet
  • p65 1929 astronomer Forest Ray Moulton calculates asteroid destroyed by impact, Barringer dies of heart attack age 69
  • p66 UAZ John L. Lewis, Mining the Sky, 2014 Asteroid Mining 101, chief scientist for Deep Space Industries
    • Platinum Group Metals not worth it except as byproduct of space construction material harvest
  • p71 Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) act of 2015 exempts American citicesns from 1967 Outer Space Treaty
  • p74 1971, IAU 15 km Barringer Crater on the far side of Moon
  • p75 Tunguska June 30, 1908, 1927 Kulik expedition
  • p87 Cosmic pluralism, Scottish author/minister Thomas Dick claims 21,891,974,404,480 living inhabitants in Solar System, 5 billion on moon

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