{"id":28444,"date":"2012-06-30T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/asteroid-comet-ufo-space-battle-happy-anniversary-tunguska-event.html"},"modified":"2012-06-30T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:13:19","slug":"asteroid-comet-ufo-space-battle-happy-anniversary-tunguska-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/asteroid-comet-ufo-space-battle-happy-anniversary-tunguska-event.html","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid? Comet? UFO space battle? Happy Anniversary, Tunguska Event!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And many happy hopefully-never-to-returns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108952536790629690817'>Philip Plait<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23BAFact\">#BAFact<\/a>: Today is the 104th anniversary of the Tunguska Event: an asteroid impact over Russia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On June 30, 1908, a chunk of cosmic debris about the size of an office building slammed into the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and detonated over Russia. Now known as the Tunguska Event, it was the largest asteroid impact in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/06\/30\/100-years-ago-today-kablam\/\" >http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/06\/30\/100-years-ago-today-kablam\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artwork: Don Davis &#8211; a fantastic space artist! Check out his stuff here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldedavis.com\/\" >http:\/\/www.donaldedavis.com\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-lPoSd5U3nz4\/T-8o-i4ckSI\/AAAAAAAAJLo\/eHuRHjV0zHc\/dondavis_tunguska.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-lPoSd5U3nz4\/T-8o-i4ckSI\/AAAAAAAAJLo\/eHuRHjV0zHc\/dondavis_tunguska.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6k7kL5rTMMU' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And many happy hopefully-never-to-returns. Reshared post from +Philip Plait #BAFact: Today is the 104th anniversary of the Tunguska Event: an asteroid impact over Russia. On June 30, 1908, a chunk of cosmic debris about the size of an office building slammed into the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and detonated over Russia. Now known as the Tunguska Event, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/asteroid-comet-ufo-space-battle-happy-anniversary-tunguska-event.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asteroid? Comet? UFO space battle? Happy Anniversary, Tunguska Event!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-28444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-bafact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/more_potpourri_far_too_ea.html","url_meta":{"origin":28444,"position":0},"title":"More Potpourri, far too early on a Saturday morning","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 21-Jun-08 8:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Schneier on Security: New TSA ID Requirementfrom www.schneier.com So ... if I refuse to show my ID, the TSA can keep me off the plane. 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