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| Thread ID: 129297 | 2013-02-15 23:08:00 | Meteor over Russia | Iantech (16386) | PC World Chat |
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| 1328236 | 2013-02-15 23:08:00 | Heard about this earlier but just read some more on it and thought I would post it if anyone else is interested. Pretty bizaar,scary and amazing all at the same time really. www.nytimes.com (Video) www.nytimes.com |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1328237 | 2013-02-15 23:11:00 | www.youtube.com www.youtube.com |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1328238 | 2013-02-15 23:41:00 | Also today an asteroid just missed the earth at 8-25am today by about 17,000 miles. It was about the size of half a football (American) Field. If it had of hit it would of done quite some substantial damage. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1328239 | 2013-02-16 02:30:00 | Yeah incredible stuff, very exciting | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1328240 | 2013-02-16 02:33:00 | Yeah, interesting dilemma with the Rusky event. You see a remarkably bright light through your window. You have two options - to approach the window to investigate it, or to ignore it. Generally checking it out is a wise thing to do, and the best measure for survival with any event. Plus it satisfies your curiosity. In this case however the blast of light arrived before the shockwave, so now that you're standing beside a window pane, it's going to be blown to pieces and fired into you... from head to toe. Hate to think how many people will be blinded by glass injuries. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1328241 | 2013-02-16 03:17:00 | I wonder if that plane that left that vapour trail would have been within range of the shockwave. ? | BobM (1138) | ||
| 1328242 | 2013-02-16 08:53:00 | Quite spectacular to watch. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1328243 | 2013-02-16 09:34:00 | I wonder if that plane that left that vapour trail would have been within range of the shockwave. ? If so, there wouldn't have been a dry seat in the plane. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1328244 | 2013-02-17 06:48:00 | Looks like it was a bit bigger than first thought. www.spaceflightnow.com "Streaking meteor unleashed biggest blast in a century Editor's Note: NASA has revised their size and energy estimates for the Russia meteor upon review of further data. Scientists now believe the small asteroid was about 17 meters, or 55 feet, in diameter and had a mass of 10,000 tons. The revised estimate of energy unleashed by the meteor is about 500 kilotons, more than 30 times the blast yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A meteoric blast over Russia on Friday was the biggest in more than 100 years, according to scientists, releasing 500 kilotons of energy, shattering windows, and injuring more than 1,000 people. The injuries were mostly cuts and bruises from broken glass, according to Russian state news reports. The meteor appeared at 9:20 a.m. local time (0320 GMT; 10:20 p.m. EST) near Chelyabinsk in Russia's Ural Mountains. NASA scientists told reporters Friday a 55-foot-wide asteroid streaked over Russia at 40,000 mph, briefly glowing as bright as the sun as it broke apart from intense heat and pressure and plowed deeper into the atmosphere. "This is the largest recorded event since the Tunguska explosion in 1908," said Paul Chodas, research scientist in the Near-Earth Object program office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. > Chodas called the Russian meteor a "tiny asteroid" and said it approached in a north-to-south direction, meaning there is no chance the object was related to the flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14, which harmlessly flew more than 17,000 miles from Earth later Friday." |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1328245 | 2013-02-17 08:21:00 | That space-cadet glow. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
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