Event in Nicaragua.

[Screamer7]

Event in Nicaragua, was it a meteorite or something else?

The lack of fireball reports from the surrounding populated area seems to suggest some other causes.
If it was not a meteorite, then what can cause such a big crater?

 

[Prowler901]

Explosives can cause similar craters. It doesn't look like an impact crater to me.

 

[statickid]

well the government scientists claimed it was a meteor... maybe it was just explosives!

:shifty:
looks like a meteor crater though

 

[Urwumpe]

well the government scientists claimed it was a meteor... maybe it was just explosives!

:shifty:
looks like a meteor crater though

It could also be UXO ... but the crater doesn't look so.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I'm putting my money on something much more terrestrial.

 

[Loru]

Definitelly weather baloon

 

[Ascraeus]

Hi all!

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I just started exploring orbiter a few days ago (and im still stunned by the awesome graphics for a free simulator), just decided to register register in the forums and for my suprise there is a thread about the little country im living in!

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About the event in Nicaragua, i heard it when it happened (i live around 1km away from the crater) and it was like a thunder but like one second in duration.

Absolutely nobody saw anything in the sky (despite it happened in a city with 2.000.000 hab at 11.00 pm) and the crater appeared casually in some army abandoned fields.

Sadly my vote here goes to military playing games. :facepalm:

 

[jedidia]

Explosives can cause similar craters. It doesn't look like an impact crater to me.

How exactly does it not look like an impact crater?

 

[llarian]

Report in spaceweather.com casts doubt that it was meteoric in origin.

 

[Ravenous]

Wouldn't a large meteorite have caused at least some heat damage to the nearby trees? It just looks like a hole somebody dug with explosives... :lol: