I think this is an pretty obvious photoshop opportunity. Get Guile or whatever his name was from Street Fighter to Sonic Boom this thing across the sky!
Yeah I agree with you and am guilty of calling it a sonic boom. I think part of the problem is that it sounds like a sonic boom and the object is traveling so fast.
There were multiple explosions, maybe it was the individual chunks breaking the sound barrier after the thing exploded in the atmosphere
No, but Asteroids often fracture but the objects keep their same trajectory and speed.
Considering they came from totally different directions, I would say that no they shouldn't be given any consideration for moonlets.
No. They'd all come from the same general direction. These came from completely different directions.
Having no formal training in any of the Astro sciences I am at a disadvantage. However you havent confinced me. I can visualize the possibility of a common cause. However if these are just 2 coincidences it is quite coincidental. I am prepared to be wrong, however.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro...g_so_many.html
That does seem convincingly credible. I withdraw my previous moonlets hypothesis.
That's been addressed repeatedly. It's just coincidence. The objects were on completely different orbits/trajectories.
