Surviving Mumbai
Candid and very personal accounts from those caught up in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
Interactive documentary, ABC TV (Australia Broadcasting Corporation) Streaming video (about 55 minutes):
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/geo/documentaries/interactive/survivingmumbai/
Asteroid smashes into atmosphere
C2NN article submitted by Animalib
- Blast equivalent to '50,000 tons of TNT
- 'Witnesses heard it, but no one saw it
- Too small for telescopes to detect
AN asteroid exploded over Indonesia with the force of three Hiroshima bombs - and no one on Earth knew it was coming. The New Scientist website reports the dramatic explosion over South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on October 8 underscores how blind humanity is to the danger of giant space rocks.
NASA estimated the explosion was the equivalent to 50,000 tons of TNT, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed. However, this time we were lucky - the blast caused no damage on the ground because it occurred at high altitude, 15 to 20km above Earth's surface.
While the explosion was heard by witnesses in Indonesia and picked up by international nuclear explosion detectors, the asteroid only became visible after it exploded.
Video images of the sky following the event showed a dust trail characteristic of an exploding asteroid, according to the New Scientist... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26270956-401,00.html .
