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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Aug-2026 09:16:51 JST Paul Cantrell

RE: https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2026/08/an-iceberg-flips/
Good heavens that’s terrifying. I realize it’s sped up (see click in upper left), but still!
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  Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Aug-2026 11:40:10 JST Paul Cantrell
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  Is there video of it?
  
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  Eka A. (eka_foof_a@spacey.space)'s status on Monday, 31-Aug-2026 11:40:12 JST Eka A.
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  Iceberg flips happen often.
  You should check out the largest icebergs ever. The record holder was 11000 square kilometers. Which is close to the size of the island of Jamaica, and 2.75 times the size of the state of Rhode Island.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_B-15
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    Iceberg B-15
    
    Iceberg B 15 was the largest recorded iceberg by area. It measured around 295 by 37 kilometres (159 by 20 nautical miles), with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (3,200 square nautical miles), about the size of the island of Jamaica. Calved from the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica in March 2000, Iceberg B-15 broke up into smaller icebergs, the largest of which was named Iceberg B-15-A. In 2003, B-15A drifted away from Ross Island into the Ross Sea and headed north, eventually breaking up into several smaller icebergs in October 2005. In 2018, a large piece of the original iceberg was steadily moving northward, located between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island. As of August 2023, the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) still listed one extant piece of B-15 that meets the minimum threshold for tracking (70 km2 or 20 sq nmi). This iceberg, B-15AB, measured 20 km × 7 km (11 nmi × 4 nmi); it was, as of 2021, grounded off the coast of Antarctica in the western sector of the Amery region. History In the last weeks of March 2000, Iceberg B-15 calved from the Ross Ice Shelf near Roosevelt Island...

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