http://www.metafilter.com/tags/freakinawesome Posts tagged with 'freakinawesome' at MetaFilter. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:41:02 -0800 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:41:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70579/Magic%2Dcrayon%2DPhysics%2Dnow%2Din%2Donline%2Dflash%2Dform <a href="http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/">Online Crayon Physics</a> Flash version of stuff from <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69349/Students-Rewarded-for-Destroying-Productivity">here</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/62482/Metafilter-and-the-Purple-Crayon">here</a>. No download needed (vs. prior posts) and totally addicting. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70579 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:41:02 -0800 crayon flash freakinawesome game physics totallycool filmgeek http://www.metafilter.com/56209/Great%2DBalls%2Dof%2DFire <a href="http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/faqf.html">Fireballs</a> are <a href="http://www.popastro.com/sections/meteor/fireball_sightings.htm">not altogether uncommon</a>. They are often <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050812.html">associated</a> with known <a href="http://www.theskyscrapers.org/meteors/index.php/year/2007">meteor showers</a> (and other times <a href="http://www.amsky.com/astronomy/solarsystem/nearearth/meteors/fireball/index.html">not</a>). They are sometimes "earth crosser" <a href="http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html">asteroids</a>, <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/03nov_taurids.htm">cometary debris</a>, or simply man-made <a href="http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast18oct_1.htm">space junk</a>. Sometimes they are <a href=http://leroy.cc.uregina.ca/%7eastro/mb_5.html>extremely</a> well <a href="http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/peekskill.htm">documented</a>. The <a href="http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Park%20Forest%202003.pdf">March 7, 2003 Park Forest fireball/meteorite</a> (pdf) was recovered and recorded by police car cameras: (AVIs: <a href="http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/Parkforest/news3.avi">1</a>, <a href="http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/Parkforest/news2.avi">2</a>, <a href="http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/Parkforest/news1.avi">3</a>) Perhaps the most incredible is <a href="http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/1972.html">the one that got away on August 10, 1972</a>. Recorded by many <a href="http://www.jimandlindabaker.com/fireball.htm">still</a> and movie cameras as it was <a href="http://www.jimandlindabaker.com/fireba2.jpg">seen</a> in <a href="http://www.jimandlindabaker.com/IMG001.JPG">daylight</a> over the Grand Tetons, it was also recorded by a previously secret satellite during it's 1-1/2 minute skip off the earth's atmosphere. See also: <a href="http://www.popastro.com/sections/meteor/fireball.htm">How to observe, and report fireballs</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56209 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:25:52 -0800 astronomy bolide bolides fireball fireballs freakinAwesome meteor meteorite meteorites meteors spock