It came from the sky

…NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.

Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.…

…Wednesday… an asteroid… which NASA discovered just two days before it happened… …passed about 25,000 miles (40,000km) from our collective home, roughly one tenth the distance between the Earth and the moon.… NASA claims it’s the closest an asteroid will come to Earth for “at least the next half century.”…

• Blue space rock slammed into the ground at college in south India
• Bus driver, 40, injured by flying debris, and died on his way to hospital
• Scientists examined stone and crater, but have yet to determine origin
• Could be from outer space, a passing airplane or man-made satellite…

Asteroids caused 26 nuclear-scale explosions in the Earth's atmosphere between 2000 and 2013, a new report reveals. … Some were more powerful – in one case, dozens of times stronger – than the atom bomb blast that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 with an energy yield equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT. … None of the asteroids were picked up or tracked in advance by any space- or Earth-based observatory….

A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar. [bejeezus?]

For the first time, scientists were able to track an asteroid from space to the ground and recover pieces of it. The bits are unlike anything ever found on Earth. ... spotted entering Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in October and was believed to have fully disintegrated, but an international team found almost 280 pieces of meteorite in a 11-square-mile section of Sudan's Nubian Desert. The largest was the size of an egg. ... from a rare class of asteroids known as ureilites, which contain a lot of carbon, much of it in the form of graphite, as well as diamonds produced by shock. The Sudan specimens show evidence of volcanic activity, which means they came from a parent body that was almost big enough to call a planet. ...