Newly released Space Force data could save life on Earth The US Space Force is publicly releasing nearly 30 years of data on fireball meteors in the hopes it can improve the detection and impact prediction of near-Earth objects (NEOs). The data contains information on bolides, classified as any meteor that has enough mass to become a fireball but not enough to cause a ground impact …
I've always been very impressed with NASA's work in every field, the people working for NASA always make every effort to do a good job (I've done a little work with a few of them years ago) and yes, there have certainly been a few minor issues in the past but every one of them has been fixed quickly.
The whole of the US Space Force existed before Trump as separate units in different military branches. The idea of unifying them had been proposed and investigated before. The idea was rejected because it had no strong benefits and would create a new bureaucracy doing the same things that were already done by the existing branches of the military thus reducing economies of scale.
I do not know who put the idea into Trump's head but once he came out with it the Air Force were first off the mark to get it done. I think the idea was a surprise to the Trump administration and none of them had considered how to profit from it but given time they would have. To prevent that, the Air Force put the plan they had already studied on the table and steered the project that way. The steering was not that hard as the administration in general and Trump in particular did not have a clue about how to merge the various units into a single entity.
Well done to the US Air Force for capturing a Trump Tweet and pinning it to the ground before it became a dumpster fire.
So if one was going to come down near me I could go out in the rain and watch the clouds light up!
FFS dont use FB like Aurora Watch does - the night-time notices seem to take several hours to come through for some reason and so its always too late to pop out in the rain.
I had a bigger one come down near me in late 1992.
I was inside so I don't know if it was raining. But reports on the news said people saw the clouds light up. I just remember the big boom. Sounded like a sonic boom from a supper sonic jet.
I looked out the windows to be sure neither of the two big (yard wide) natural gas lines within a mile of the house had a giant fire raging from a leak.
I remember the year because I was changing my first born kids diaper at the time.
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