Cool! Thank-you lightwalker. I just watched a FOX interview with Michio Kaku regarding this event. He said they don't know exactly what it was. It could have possibly been an asteroid collision. Or...was this a rare glimpse of a possible Star War over our heads. Hmmmm. Here is a previous interview with Michio Kaku regarding an asteroid hunter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2lEZXjUdE I guess we are phasing out the Space Shuttle...and for the next five years we will need to get permission from the Russians to go into space (via conventional means, at least)! Here is what could happen if the asteroid hunter malfunctions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFwnGiu9eV8 Beware of Aimed Asteroids aka Drac Attacks.

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