Meteorite Shower Hits Russia

[Omer Said]

It's strange that these things could not be foreseen by something like satellites or weather forecasters etc...

The Russian Academy of Sciences estimates the meteor weighed about 10 tonnes and entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000mph - 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet - and shattered up to 32 miles above ground.

The emergencies ministry said that 20,000 rescue workers had been dispatched to help the injured and locate those needing help.

The defence ministry said it had identified a six metre crater near a lake in this region and has sent soldiers to the site of the impact.

Quotes from sky.com
Not just there, many websites report it. I quoted it as it was on top of the google results.

 

[Victor Ivanov]

Another one:

 

[Victor Ivanov]

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Was a bit shocked when i saw it today, the sound of it´s impact is crazy

Omer Said the reason they can´t detect them is because they are too small.
Certain military radar systems can probably detect them when they have entered the atmosphere but the speed it´s travelling at makes it impossible to warn anyone.

Speed was 33,000mph and weighed 11 tonnes.



It´s size is nothing compared to this bad boy that will pass us today,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...rock_will_miss_the_earth_by_17_000_miles.html

seems Russian scientists are saying different things, here´s another take on why it wasn´t visible.

8:10 GMT: Oleg Malkov, an aerospace scientist at
Moscow State University, told Komsomolskaya Pravda
newspaper that the meteorite went undetected by
space scanners, likely because it was coming from
the direction of the Sun.
"We can only register stones coming from the
direction of the night sky," he explained. Malkov
confirmed that the meteor shower in the Urals
was not connected to the 2012DA14 asteroid that
will approach Earth in a few hours.

7:46 GMT: Ekaterinburg’s observatory has officially
deemed the incident a fireball meteor shower. No
evacuations were called for, and radiation levels
were determined to be normal.

Source:
http://rt.com/news/russia-meteor-meteorite-asteroid
-chelyabinsk-291/

 

[Victor Ivanov]

A friend told me CNN will broad cast live from 7:25 PM GMT.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

nice gif, i would have **** my pants if i saw that. Instantly thinking of Armageddon

 

[Victor Ivanov]

Live from the big brother
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

 

[Jax Humanhater]

That must have been scary. Good thing it was not as large as the Earth or we would all be dead.

I hope those people are alright.

 

[Hiroshi Awazu]

Oh man! pretty intense. Good thing DA14 passed by rather than hitting earth. That would of been very catastrophic.

 

[William Levesque]

That must have been scary. Good thing it was not as large as the Earth or we would all be dead

Not to scare the **** out of you, but something barely the size of the Gulfe of Mexico is plenty enough to pulverise all life forms from the Earth.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Not to scare you but a meteor by the size of six miles should be enough. That was the size of the meteor than ended life for the dino's when it hit the Yucatan peninsula.

Just six miles and a single impact and we don't need to worry about crisis', god/allah, democrates/republicans, good/bad anymore :

Then when the clouds of dust and debris have disappeared some other retarded lifeform can take over from us.

Cockroaches will replace humans and within 50 million years they will be simracing

Got to love nature!

Very unlikely that such objects will hit us though in modern times though.

More likely is that our way of life will be ended by a massive explosion of the Yellowstone Caldera and when that happens I hope ill be standing next to it to witness it. End with a massive baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!

 

[William Levesque]

Ah yes, 6 miles... I mixed up the location it fell and the size

 

[Hampus Andersson]

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Here the same asteroid filmed in 1972!!!! Thank <insert holy fictional character> we had an awesome gatekeeper in the west at that time.

 

[Miguel Gonzalez]

Chunk of meteor that created the big hole in the lake is mysteriously missing now. Some Russian officials were claiming new American tech and not a meteor. Kind of far fetched but the missing meteor doesn't do much to disprove that opinion.

 

[Hiroshi Awazu]

Ah yes, 6 miles... I mixed up the location it fell and the size

Well either way if a meteor of that size were to hit earth again i hope i'm right in it's crash path and does me in quick. I don't want to deal with the waves of destruction it creates.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Even that I won't mind as it must be a super interesting experience. Earth's atmosphere filling up with dust, temperatures dropping fast after a few days because sunlight wont reach the earth's surface anymore. Ice age symptoms all over the globe. And then after we have used all our resources the peaceful silence for years and years and years and years and years.

Can't wait for the BBC documentary Oh shoot, there will be no more BBC then.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Very weird things happening:

- Very flat approach of the object.
- Sonic booms after object passed
- Duration of the sonic booms

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Point of impact

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Look at 33s