Posted at the Internet site Unmuseum:
Asteroid Hits Antarctica - According to scientists at Australia's Davis station
in Antarctica, a significantly large asteroid hit Earth in September of 2004.
Fortunately the impact was in an uninhabited portion of Antarctica, but if the
object had slammed into a city it would have destroyed it. The asteroid was the
size a bus and weighed about 1000 tons and was traveling at about 150 miles per
second. Dr Andrew Klekociuk who was on duty observing the stratosphere that
night got a strange signal from30 kms overhead. At first it was thought to be a
problem with the equipment, but later it was determined that a asteroid had hit
the ground approximately 800 miles from the station. It is thought to be the
biggest asteroid to hit the Earth in the last ten years.