This is pretty amazing!
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2...-sky-in-russia
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02-15-2013, 05:09 AM #1
Shock wave from falling meteorite injures hundreds in Russia
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I thought it was a joke too. I hadn't read the news today until just now. I had seen a story a few days ago about that other meteor that was supposed to almost hit us. It's crazy how something so small (150 feet across) could have hit with a 2.5 megaton force. That would have been a disaster in a populated area like where this one was.
I thought meteors just exploded when they hit the ground. It's scary how this one entered the atmosphere and exploded while it was in the air. It would be like an air burst nuclear detonation if a bigger one did that.
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They cool off so fast once they hit the lower atmosphere they detonate in air. I attached a link to the 1908 Tunguska blast, similar thing only much larger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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02-15-2013, 08:58 AM #12
There's a massive one passing quite close to the earth,that is inside the orbit of some satellites.The news states i'll be able to see it through a good pair
of binoculars in the Southern sky,at 19.35 gmt here in the UK.If this one hit us,there'd be no more petty arguments on this forum,or anywhere else for
that matter.
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Kind of spooky that this happened over the Russian nuclear weapons lab.
Most of it burned up in the atmosphere and the rest shattered into small pieces. Here is where small fragment hit:
Also, live coverage of the asteroid flyby is here:
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02-15-2013, 01:58 PM #19
Cool stuff to watch it streak across the sky--not so cool when you think of that damage it could have caused had it hit the ground.
Amazing.
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