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Old 11-23-2009, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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Come out, come out, where ever you are???
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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Go ahead with another one Wyoquilter. Not sure what's going on.
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Old 11-25-2009, 04:35 AM
 
Location: Way on the outskirts of LA LA land.
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Sorry guys, I wasn't able to get on for a little while.

How about this one (sticking with the fort theme):

Two of the forts in Wyoming were named after people using their first names to avoid confusion with forts in neighboring states. One of them used only the first name, while the other used first and last. This is a three-part question:

1. Which two forts were they?
2. What were the forts in neighboring states that they could have been confused with?
3. What states are those forts in?
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Old 11-25-2009, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Wyoming
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A little guessing here, but:
Fort Phil Kearny -- not to be confused with Nebraska's Fort Kearny
Fort Caspar -- not to be confused with Colorado's Fort Collins
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Old 11-25-2009, 02:37 PM
 
Location: Way on the outskirts of LA LA land.
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Originally Posted by WyoNewk View Post
A little guessing here, but:
Fort Phil Kearny -- not to be confused with Nebraska's Fort Kearny
Fort Caspar -- not to be confused with Colorado's Fort Collins
That is the correct answer (at least the one I was looking for).
Your turn!
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Old 11-25-2009, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Never windy Wyoming
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You guys are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy to damn smart for me now!!!! lol happy thanksgiving
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Old 11-25-2009, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Wyoming
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The only times I've ever been called smart it was "smart donkey" or something very similar.


I just came across this today. Interesting. (Fill in the blanks.)

Aug. 10, 1972, several Teton National Park visitors witnessed a very rare Earth-______________ _______________.
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Old 11-25-2009, 09:17 PM
 
Location: Chic's Beach, VA
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meteor fireball. It never hit earth though. It should have caused a Hiroshima sized explosion, but they believe it grazed the atmosphere and then continued back on its sun orbit.


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Old 11-26-2009, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Wyoming
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Close enough, Gibs. The exact words I was looking for were "Earth-grazing meteoroid", but you got the right object. I can't recall ever hearing about it before. According to one article I read, the media didn't publicize it much when it happened. Apparently the media wasn't aware of the rarity of the occurrence.

"The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball (or US19720810) is an Earth-grazing meteoroid which passed within 57 kilometres (35.4 miles) of the surface of the Earth at 20:29 UTC on August 10, 1972. It entered the Earth's atmosphere in daylight over Utah, United States (14:30 local time) and passed northwards leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada. It was seen by many people and recorded on film and by space borne sensors."

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Old 11-26-2009, 03:15 PM
 
Location: Chic's Beach, VA
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sweet. Yeah I had never heard of that before.

This one is probably an easy one for you all but here goes.

What is the coldest recorded temperature in Wyoming, where was it and when?

Gib
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