German Satellite ROSAT slams into Turkey causing 7.2 magnitude earthquake?
World news Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Scientists from the United States and Europe are looking into an unconfirmed report that the German Satellite ROSAT impacted Earth in Turkey, causing a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Seismic data suggests that the Turkey earthquake coincides with the scheduled crash landing of ROSAT. There was a very good probability that a 1.7 ton piece of ROSAT would survive the reentry and could crash on Earth within the time frame given by Germany. A 1.7 ton piece of space debris free falling at supersonic speed could cause a large seismic disturbance event to be detected and recorded.
The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the quake had a magnitude of 7.3, then revised it down to 7.2. The USGS didn’t report nor record any earthquakes prior to the large 7.2 magnitude earthquake. An official Turkish monitoring office reported a magnitude of 6.7 for the main quake, plus aftershocks ranging in magnitude from 2.6 to 5.8, all within an hour of the first quake. The 1 hour time frame of the aftershocks further suggests other large pieces of ROSAT impacting Earth in Turkey.
A number of journalists are now trying to get to the Earthquake epicenter to verify whether or not the German satellite ROSAT did in fact slam into Turkey and caused the 7.2 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks.
For those of you who don’t believe a satellite can cause an earthquake of this magnitude check out what happened when the United States intentionally crash a satellite into the Moon and a comet in 2005. On january 12, 2005 NASA launched Deep Impact. It was designed to study the composition of the comet interior of comet 9P/Tempel, by slamming an 820-pound impactor into the comet. At 5:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the impactor successfully collided with the comet. The impactor delivered 1.96 × 1010 joules of kinetic energy—the equivalent of 4.7 tons of TNT. Scientists believed that the energy of the high-velocity collision would be sufficient to excavate a crater up to 100 m (328 ft) wide (larger than the bowl of the Roman Colosseum). 4.7 tons of TNT can cause a 3.5 magnitude earthquake.
The Deep Impact impactor weighed 820 lbs and its impact could cause a 3.5 magnitude earthquake if it had impacted with Earth instead of the comet. The largest piece of the German satellite ROSAT that could survive reentry is estimated to weigh 1.7 tons which is 4 times heavier than the Deep Impactor. You do the math. Does 4 times heavier mean 4 times the kinetic energy released?
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