WTF! Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified

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In the wake of the worldwide Meteor freakout 2013, I find this article below more than interesting. I'm wondering WHY are incoming space rocks now classified?

Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified



For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere – but no longer.

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned. The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists.

The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.

"It's baffling to us why this would suddenly change," said one scientist familiar with the work. "It's unfortunate because there was this great synergy…a very good cooperative arrangement. Systems were put into dual-use mode where a lot of science was getting done that couldn't be done any other way. It's a regrettable change in policy." Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.

Incoming!

Most "shooting stars" are caused by natural space debris no larger than peas. But routinely, rocks as big as basketballs and even small cars crash into the atmosphere. Most vaporize or explode on the way in, but some reach the surface or explode above the surface. Understandably, scientists want to know about these events so they can better predict the risk here on Earth. Yet because the world is two-thirds ocean, most incoming objects aren't visible to observers on the ground. Many other incoming space rocks go unnoticed because daylight drowns them out. Over the last decade or so, hundreds of these events have been spotted by the classified satellites. Priceless observational information derived from the spacecraft were made quickly available, giving researchers such insights as time, a location, height above the surface, as well as light-curves to help pin down the amount of energy churned out from the fireballs.

And in the shaky world we now live, it's nice to know that a sky-high detonation is natural versus a nuclear weapon blast. Where the space-based surveillance truly shines is over remote stretches of ocean – far away from the prospect of ground-based data collection. But all that ended within the last few months, leaving scientists blind-sided and miffed by the shift in policy. The hope is that the policy decision will be revisited and overturned.

Critical importance

"The fireball data from military or surveillance assets have been of critical importance for assessing the impact hazard," said David Morrison, a Near Earth Object (NEO) scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. He noted that his views are his own, not as a NASA spokesperson. The size of the average largest atmospheric impact from small asteroids is a key piece of experimental data to anchor the low-energy end of the power-law distribution of impactors, from asteroids greater than 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter down to the meter scale, Morrison told SPACE.com. "These fireball data together with astronomical observations of larger near-Earth asteroids define the nature of the impact hazard and allow rational planning to deal with this issue," Morrison said. Morrison said that fireball data are today playing additional important roles. As example, the fireball data together with infrasound allowed scientists to verify the approximate size and energy of the unique Carancas impact in the Altiplano -- on the Peru-Bolivia border -- on Sept. 15, 2007. Fireball information also played an important part in the story of the small asteroid 2008 TC3, Morrison said. That was the first-ever case of the astronomical detection of a small asteroid before it hit last year. The fireball data were key for locating the impact point and the subsequent recovery of fragments from this impact.

Link in public understanding

Astronomers are closing in on a years-long effort to find most of the potentially devastating large asteroids in our neck of the cosmic woods, those that could cause widespread regional or global devastation. Now they plan to look for the smaller stuff. So it is ironic that the availability of these fireball data should be curtailed just at the time the NEO program is moving toward surveying the small impactors that are most likely to be picked up in the fireball monitoring program, Morrision said. "These data have been available to the scientific community for the past decade," he said. "It is unfortunate this information is shut off just when it is becoming more valuable to the community interested in characterizing near Earth asteroids and protecting our planet from asteroid impacts." The newly issued policy edict by the U.S. military of reporting fireball observations from satellites also caught the attention of Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist and asteroid impact expert at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

"I think that this information is very important to make public," Chapman told SPACE.com. "More important than the scientific value, I think, is that these rare, bright fireballs provide a link in public understanding to the asteroid impact hazard posed by still larger and less frequent asteroids," Chapman explained. Those objects are witnessed by unsuspecting people in far-flung places, Chapman said, often generating incorrect and exaggerated reports. "The grounding achieved by associating these reports by untrained observers with the satellite measurements is very useful for calibrating the observer reports and closing the loop with folks who think they have seen something mysterious and extraordinary," Chapman said. --> via SPACE.com

And here comes another one...

Cuba, too, reports powerful meteorite explosion

16.02.2013

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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls. There were no reports of any injuries or damage such as those caused by the Russia meteorite, which sent out shockwaves that hurt some 1,200 people and shattered countless windows. In a video from a state TV newscast posted on the website CubaSi late Friday, unidentified residents of the central city of Rodas, near Cienfuegos, said the explosion was impressive. "On Tuesday we left home to fish around five in the afternoon, and around 8:00 we saw a light in the heavens and then a big ball of fire, bigger than the sun," one local man said in the video.

"My home shook completely," said a woman. "I had never heard such a strange thing." Marcos Rodriguez, whom the video identified as a specialist in anthropology, said all signs point to a meteorite. According to scientists, five to 10 smaller meteorites hit the planet each year. Larger events like the one over Russia are more rare, and some experts said it may have been the biggest such blast since another meteor hit Siberia in 1908. Also Friday, residents of the San Francisco Bay Area reported seeing a fireball in the sky that scientists said was likely a piece of space rock. Another meteor in the same area last October caused a loud sonic boom. In Cuba, a reporter on the video said a similar phenomenon was observed in 1994 elsewhere in Cienfuegos province. It said Cuban authorities were looking for any fragments that may have fallen to the earth.

Are all the recent meteor sightings and the US cover-up related to the "Wernher von Braun prophecies"?

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“They’re inventing enemies he (Von Braun) said, against whom they are going to build this space-Wernher von Braun based weapon system—the first of whom was the Russians which was existing at that time. Then there would be terrorists, then there would be third world countries, now we call them rogue nations or nations of concern. Then there would be ASTEROIDS. And then he would repeat to me over and over ‘and the last card, the last, the last card would be the extraterrestrial threat’…you will find that there is going to be a spin to find some enemy against whom we have to build space based weapons and now we should expect the spin.”

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

[Spock Profile]

I remember hearing about this - it is the height of arrogance to think that us poor average schmucks shouldn't be allowed to know what's inbound.

[-Marduk- Profile]

I remember hearing about this - it is the height of arrogance to think that us poor average schmucks shouldn't be allowed to know what's inbound.

Exactly sir, I tried to get in touch..(lol)..with Dr. Carol Rosin, to hear her opinion about the recent events and the military-hush up. I'm curious what she thinks about that...hope she'll answer my call soon.

[jdabb Profile]

There is definitely something that the military is trying to hide. Whatever that threat is, must be deemed greater than an astroid destroying the earth. What could be more dangerous than that?

[Marcydare Profile]

I believe they have discovered that these Fire Balls are 'not' meteors at all, nor are they ANY natural Phenomenon.
That they are in fact, Enter Dimensional Beings entering our world and leaving it at will, and they are powerless to
stop them. And, I'll go even further and state that they are IMHO Demonic Entities who are preparing the world for
the return of the Fallen Angels and ultimately preparing the World to be the Throne of Satan.

With Petrus Romanus to be In-Throned in mere weeks it looks as though all the Pieces of the End Times puzzle
are fitting together quite nicely.

[Evildweeb Profile]

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JSYK.......

.....at 04:20 am CST US I witnessed an incoming meteorite/fireball just south of OKC on my way to work this morning.

Almost made the ground too....lit up the entire night sky.


The ONE time I didn't have my video camera in the car running.........



Yes, there is something amiss with all this multiple incoming.


Keep yer eyes peeled folks, I'd bet its not over yet.

[Malogg Profile]

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[Pitchke Profile]

There is something weird going on...

[Rich316 Profile]

I believe they have discovered that these Fire Balls are 'not' meteors at all, nor are they ANY natural Phenomenon.
That they are in fact, Enter Dimensional Beings entering our world and leaving it at will, and they are powerless to
stop them. And, I'll go even further and state that they are IMHO Demonic Entities who are preparing the world for
the return of the Fallen Angels and ultimately preparing the World to be the Throne of Satan.

With Petrus Romanus to be In-Throned in mere weeks it looks as though all the Pieces of the End Times puzzle
are fitting together quite nicely.

Holy crap there's a movie right there... Interesting take on things.. will be very interesting if these 'asteroids' continue over the coming weeks.

[Poooooot Profile]

There is something weird going on...

Agreed