If you were asleep, just before midnight in your Park Forest home, you may have been awakened by a series of explosions. At least one 13 year old boy did not wake up to the noise, but achieved some level of situational awareness when a 5 pound rock crashed through the ceiling of his room and rolled across the floor, a few feet from his bed.
In addition to the obvious physical evidence of multiple building and vehicle strikes, which were the fragments from the air burst and became meteorites upon impact, the event comes complete with video and was observed first-hand by local scientists.
Eventually, we will have injuries from these events, and we may develop a plan to predict them and give a warning to those on the ground. One positive indication is the Torino Impact Hazard Scale which is published on the NASA website. It will be sad day if an event of this type causes injury or death, before we come up with a plan to mitigate the effects and react appropriately.
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