Meteor hits Russia

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In the wake of tonights supposedly near miss of another hulk from outer space, an unscheduled visitor came to taste some vodka:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

quite strange nobody saw this coming...

[astronelson 339]

Not that strange at all, really - there are a heck of a lot of asteroids out there, and we only really know where some of the big ones are. If this was small enough (it blew up in the atmosphere and didn't cause widespread damage, so it likely wasn't that big) then there was little to no chance of us spotting it.

[Sandis_van_Great 346]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=152_1360906606

 

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html#cutid1

 

Now that boom was quet something

Althought it can be just a coincidence but today we gona be passed by "2012 DA 14 " which is 45 meters in diameter. Closest point with earth should be 27 000km

[LucasK336 54]

News are talking about 500 injured (most of them with small cuts) in 6 different cities because of the blast the explosion produced. 

Others are even saying the russian army destroyed it

 

[LexusInfernus 908]

That video looks extremely fake. Most notably due to the complete apathy of pretty much everyone on the street when it almost appears a nuclear bomb goes off right next to them. Not even a reaction from the pedestrians. 

[dazza262 133]

There's lots of videos of it all over the net, I doubt that they could all be fake.

[Easy Bakes 253]

impressive

[Azoreus 1]

The videos of the meteor are amazing and beautiful, almost wish it had blown over Finland.

 

Perhaps the reason why it wasn't spotted was because it might have come to earth on a free ride behind the 2012 DA 14?

[warrior 169]

Isn't is the first time a meteor has caused damage to humans over a large scale? (at least in modern times)

I think we need to start planning and starting an organisation to actually deal with asteroids, rather than just track them.

[Terring 6,473]

[LexusInfernus 908]

There's lots of videos of it all over the net, I doubt that they could all be fake.

Undoubtedly there are plenty of real videos out there. Im just saying that this particular video is fake. 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

CBC report.

 

The Russian people seem to be more blasé, perhaps, than if this happened over, say, New York.  Life in the tough lane inures one to such unexpected things.  Probably everyone was wondering what Vlad the Usurper was up to.  I'm afraid to think what the reaction would have been over the U.S.  They'd probably have gone to Defcon 3.

 

@Terring: That's a nice meme.

[Bdub01 201]

CBC report.

The Russian people seem to be more blasé, perhaps, than if this happened over, say, New York. Life in the tough lane inures one to such unexpected things. Probably everyone was wondering what Vlad the Usurper was up to. I'm afraid to think what the reaction would have been over the U.S. They'd probably have gone to Defcon 3.

@Terring: That's a nice meme.

Yeah there would be chaos is the streets if that happened over NYC or Chicago or LA. Then the conspiracy nuts would be blaming everything but a meteor!!!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Can't you just hear them: "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!  "It hit me on the head".  -- The Story of Henny Penny.

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Can't you just hear them: "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!  "It hit me on the head".  -- The Story of Henny Penny.

what the?    Hit you on the head? 

[LexusInfernus 908]

Ive already read that some Nationalist Russian politicians were blaming secret American weapon tests rather than meteors. Idiots...

[Duke87 1,070]

[Odainsaker 2,134]

Had it hit 20 or 30 years ago--a tiniest of fractions of the lifetime of the earth--it just may have been enough of a blast to trigger automated Soviet nuclear reprisal attacks against the U.S. before any site investigation team could stop them. Carl Sagan offered the grim view in "Cosmos" that an object from space could naturally strike Earth, as objects regularly do, and in response our species would commit scripted mass nuclear suicide. What difference a generation makes.

[yayaya1 22]

feel bad for them over there

[Duke87 1,070]

Had it hit 20 or 30 years ago...a tiniest a fractions of the lifetime of the earth...it just may have been enough of a blast to trigger automated Soviet nuclear reprisal attacks against the U.S. before any site investigation team could stop them. Carl Sagan offered the grim view in "Cosmos" that an object from space could naturally strike Earth, and in response our species would commit scripted mass nuclear suicide. What difference a generation makes.

 

At least it wouldn't have been caused by fluoridated water.

[blunder 1,079]

according to the BBC report, there were russian politicians blaming this on a US weapons test.  /facepalm

 

Great memes, terring & duke

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Can't you just hear them: "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!  "It hit me on the head".  -- The Story of Henny Penny.

what the?    Hit you on the head? 

You have got to be kidding.  You've never heard the nursery take of Henny Penny?  WhereRUFrom?

 

[KonstantinII 1,106]

I  Idiots...

 

 

You too Brutus

[KonstantinII 1,106]

 

Can't you just hear them: "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!  "It hit me on the head".  -- The Story of Henny Penny.

what the?    Hit you on the head? 

You have got to be kidding.  You've never heard the nursery take of Henny Penny?  WhereRUFrom?

The  other side of Moon     

[Duke87 1,070]

I had never heard the name "Henny Penny" before, either, but I do know the story by the name of "Chicken Little". According to Wikipedia the latter is how it is known in the US while the former is more common in other English-speaking countries.

 

"Chicken Licken" is apparently another name for the story, although had I thought that was just John Scieszka's spoof of it.

[Easy Bakes 253]

apparently another big meteor was seen over northern  California tonight

[Linoa06 1,374]

^ That one was certainly the huge one from yesterday.

 

But that meteor that fell on Russia..I've heard officials perfectly knew of it, but they thought it'd disintegrate mid-air and never reach the ground. They miscalculated something.

 

That, or they just thought it'd fall in an uninhabited area.

[LexusInfernus 908]

^ That one was certainly the huge one from yesterday.

 

But that meteor that fell on Russia..I've heard officials perfectly knew of it, but they thought it'd disintegrate mid-air and never reach the ground. They miscalculated something.

 

That, or they just thought it'd fall in an uninhabited area.

It did disintegrate mid-air. The loud boom and subsequent shockwave was the result of the meteor breaching the sound barrier and producing a sonic boom. 

 

And no, I don't think they knew it was coming. It was a pretty small meteor, the kind you simply don't detect that easily. And all over the world there are only a handful of telescopes searching the skies for meteors, not nearly enough to cover every bit of sky all of the time. This meteor wasn't really an exception either. Meteors like this hit the earth on a regular basis. We don't notice most of them because most of them fall in the oceans or hit some uninhabited area. 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, there is a new Canadian satellite which I think has been launched with the job of surveying for non-telescope visible NEOs.  Just got this program off the ground, so to speak.

 

Russian recovery efforts.

 

Lots of broken glass and the subsequent injuries, some physical damage to buildings from the shock wave.  Fortunately, no one seems to have been seriously injured.

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