Witnesses: Large meteor streaks across Canada sky - Yahoo! News Video: Hulu - NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: Meteor Landing Leaves Many Stunned
Landing would imply there was a controlled vehicle involved and that would really be big news . Anyway meteors are fascinating especially when they are small.Big ones result in extinctions
Impacting is a very accurate description however. I sure hope they find the impact crater.....(I hope it hit land and not water)!
And yet what do we do to prevent this possibility? We spend untold billions on the space station, aging shuttle fleets, freaking moonbases and mars rovers, yet the most important aspect of space (defense) is being largely ignored. Whats the plan should something appear in our solar system and heads for possible impact? Pray? Call Bruce Willis? Hope a nuke will work? IMO we should have a viable defense plan for this eventuality before we start building moonbases for posterities sake.
some updates: The Associated Press: Scientists find meteor debris in Canada The Canadian Press: Scientists find space rock that streaked through skies of Western Canada