Meteor Impact Leaves Giant Crater in Africa, Creates Ejecta Blast Zone

[Cryptoad]

https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/meteor-impact-leaves-giant-crater-in-africa-creates-ejecta-blast-zone

[JoeOtterbein]

1. Super Duper Cool!

April 16, 2020: A meteor impacted the earth in Akure, Nigeria at an angle of 43 degrees on March 28, 2020. The space rock left a large crater and created an ejecta blast zone that damaged many structures. #AsteroidImpact #MeteorExplosion #CometSwan

[JoeOtterbein]

2. Or, Super Duper...

...uh oh!

A gigantic asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week on April 29, 2020: https://earthfrenzyradio.com/science-astronomy/4456-big-asteroid-to-fly-past-earth-on-april-29 …

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Why not? We've already got a plague, a volcano, locusts and a radioactive forest fire.

[Blue Owl]

3. If only Don Jr. and Gums were hunting in that spot that day

n/t

[msongs]

5. sounds a tad suspect. odd nobody but this guy knows about it. where's the ejecta zone? nt

[mbusby]

6. I can only find...

...only one reference to the meteor blast (the original above). More study is needed.

[SkyDaddy7]

9. From my personal experience...

That YouTube channel is known for pushing BS!

...Plus, and I can’t understate this, an impact that large would overtake Coronavirus News for at least a day or 3!!!! Then, scientists from around the world would most certainly risk their lives descending on that location to study it for months!!

Just saying.

[Quixote1818]

7. The probability of an explosion on a road is a billion times higher than an asteroid hitting a road

Millions of miles of open lands and it hits a road? Seems highly unlikely.

[Leith]

12. My BS alarm went off and it was loud

Here's what I found:

Skywatch media's YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3rKLIfo9C0k98E5kiVqc8Bm6MZ7odIGr

They have videos about
- An asteroid could be The End Of Days on Oct 12, 2017.
- A couple videos about a mysterious "Planet X" that is destroying life on Earth, making the skies over Europe red, and causing wildfires.
- and assorted other stories about chemtrails, earthquakes, volcanoes, UFOs, weird weather of all kinds, and on and on.

This is a cockamamie conspiracy theory spreader with little factual reporting behind it.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/global-skywatch/

[TomVilmer]

8. No evidence explosion was caused by meteorite...

... but from explosives transported to a storage facility.
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/unearthing-the-cause-of-akure-explosion/
https://punchng.com/no-one-has-provided-evidence-to-prove-ondo-explosion-was-caused-by-meteorite-odeyemi-prof-of-applied-geology/

But the video explanation is much more interesting .

[Danascot]

10. Approach with caution!

[DarleenMB]

11. Not to nit pick but I will anyway

That's not a "giant" crater. The one down in Arizona? Now THAT'S a giant crater. I've been there and stood on the rim. IT'S HUUUUUGE! this one is a pock mark by comparison. Glad it didn't land on anyone though.