about that meteorite...
 

Check out this link with video about a DIFFERENT meteorite

thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/video-captures-flaming-object-believed-to-be-meteorite/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/met...ple-in-russia/

Has good stuff in the comments.


Hooooly space-rock, batman.

Imagine if the cold war was still on. There were times when the Russkis were so jumpy this could easily have caused them to launch.

I'm still trying to find out if this is related to the bigger rock due to near miss tonight.

http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia...s-in-one-place


Awesome!

The Ruskies would have poured rockets on us in the good old days.

Holy cow Griff, those videos are amazing! That shock wave is unreal. When I heard that some people got hurt from broken glass, I was picturing they were all in a building that got hit.

And yet we're supposed to believe that when Superman crashed to Earth, only a local farmer and his wife noticed? Government coverup, right there.

Jebus Crepes! Would that freak you right the hell out?

I thought the same thing, glatt. Can you imagine, windows just exploding all around you?

Thanks Griff, that is fascinating!

Well, let's thank FSM it didn't land in, or come from the direction of, North Korea.

Ditto Griff and Zen. Said to Mum this afternoon that 30 years ago that would have sparked an exchange of bombs.
Said in front of my niece who was baffled - her only knowledge of Russians is that they own football clubs. Not ignorance (well, not really) on her part, just the way the world changes.

At 10 I was terrified of both the atom bomb and the IRA.
At 18 she isn't terrified of anything. Terrorists don't bomb Aylesbury or Milton Keynes (where her BF lives) so why worry?

How do we know it was a meteor and not that crazy bastard in North Korea launching something? And why the heck is there so little snow on the ground in Russia where it is so damned cold. Global warming?

Ahh.....not if you take Smallville's origin story into account...

Well, if you take Captain Jack Harkness slash Captain John Hart into consideration...
Oh, no, sorry. That was actually just reasonably well-written fan-porn.

As you were.

You have to get a handle on this slashfiction addiction :P

So, the boffins have crunched the numbers, and the final estimates are in:

Size: 17 meters
Mass: 10,000 tons
Speed: 64,000 kph
Energy release: 500 kilotons

Wow.

I suspect that the 500 kiloton thing is a tad misleading. A nuke would release that all at once, a thousandth of a second or such. This was over several seconds, so the effects weren't quite so bad.

Just imagine if it had been a vertical plunge not the angled blow we got. If that had hit the crust ... wham!

Oh and turns out, no connection to the other big near-miss we just had. Totally different trajectories.

hah

:D