Russian city hit by meteorite

[CCIP]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

Apparently, a sizeable meteorite has just exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk.

Some story! I'm following this on Russian news myself, and there's certainly lots of interesting videos and images. Look here for example:

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

Check out the shockwave from this thing :huh:

http://youtu.be/b0cRHsApzt8
http://youtu.be/w6uOzFo2MQg

Only light injuries and a lot of blown-out windows though. No pieces of the meteorite found yet. They say it most likely exploded about 50km above ground, and came from a fragment of an asteroid that was expected to pass 28,000km from earth today (as reported here earlier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21442863 ).

[Cybermat47]

This isn't something you hear every day! :o

[CaptainHaplo]

Glad its only minor injuries!

[Mork_417]

WoW!!! :o

[Herr-Berbunch]

Wow indeed!

Bruce Willis is on standby for Die Hardmageddon.

[Lionclaw]

:o

Wow indeed!

[HunterICX]

:huh: Woooww...talk about beeing lucky there.

HunterICX

[Mork_417]

If anyone is interested, i believe this is related. However, I'm going to miss the best part of the show due to my location. :down:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/Asteroid-DA14-to-Zip-Past-Earth-189052161.html

[Dowly]

Oh wow, this one shows the meteor. :o
http://youtu.be/4ZxXYscmgRg

Another video showing the thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAmN2Yy50g

[Mork_417]

Man, that thing looked HUGE!!! :o

I bet that was an awesome sight in person. You know, minus the bang.

[Rhodes]

NASA already said that the meteor was not related with one of tomorrow. And some people began to speculate that it may be a missile:06::06::06:.
Oh well, tomorrow will be meteor day or something!

[Oberon]

Hoooooooooolllyyyyyy


That....that was impressive, and quite terrifying to see, and that was just the shock wave from it exploding.

Lucky it wasn't another Tunguska, that would have been devastating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8THYTxdqIk

[Wolferz]

Space Popcorn.:down:

[Red October1984]

How come it's always Russia that Meteorites are hitting?

There was that one in Siberia IIRC that was HUGE! :huh:

I couldn't imagine that happening over here. These people are lucky. Very lucky.

[Mork_417]

This is true, I stand corrected from my previous post, as this one came from a different direction. However, it is still a wierd coincident. :hmmm:

And it's still AMAZING!

[Seeadler]

Collection of videos on German news site:

Videos (http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Meteorit-schlaegt-am-Ural-ein-article10132051.html)

[Wolferz]

I've seen a fair sized meteor pass through our atmo on a flat trajectory...
The friction makes them extremely bright.

Wasn't the Tunguska event caused by a large chunk of ice and not a space rock?

[Hottentot]

How come it's always Russia that Meteorites are hitting?

Being geographically the largest nation in the world might have something to do with it.

[Oberon]

Wasn't the Tunguska event caused by a large chunk of ice and not a apace rock?

Some say comet, others say asteroid explosion. The results of the 2010 expedition tend to lean towards comet but it's still quite open.

[Armistead]

Amazing stuff.

The last meteor shower was good, saw some big ones, but that was amazing. I have found 3 small pieces with my metal detector over the years, largest about size of golfball.

[Herr-Berbunch]

The amount of energy there is huge! And who knew so many Russians had dashboard cameras? :hmm2: But I'm grateful they have.

[Oberon]

And who knew so many Russians had dashboard cameras? :hmm2:

It's for evidence in insurance and criminal cases.

http://jalopnik.com/why-russians-are-obsessed-with-dash-cams-5918159

And also provides countless hours of footage for 'Fail' or 'Driving in Russia' compliations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXoOiwFbUc8

[Sailor Steve]

The "hit" part of the title might be a little misleading. I just read on another source that the blast was "several kilotons", which, if it had hit the city would have left no city at all.

I loved the nervous laughter in the videos. It's how we always react to sudden unexpected shocks. Thanks for posting the videos, George.

How come it's always Russia that Meteorites are hitting?

There was that one in Siberia IIRC that was HUGE! :huh:

I couldn't imagine that happening over here. These people are lucky. Very lucky.
There are 28 confirmed impact craters in the United States, and another 30 in Canada. While all of them are quite old, that doesn't mean that we've never had any.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_in_North_America

The most famous is the Barringer crater in Arizona, which is almost a mile across.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

The largest seems to be from the meteorite that created the shape of lower Chesapeake Bay, and is more than 50 miles across.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater

And of course there is the Chicxulub crater near the Yucatan Peninsula, almost 200 miles across, which is suspected of being responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_Crater

[Oberon]

Most that fall are never noticed, they either land in the sea or in the wilderness and the impact craters since they are often only a few hundred meters across become eroded over time. Even more burn up before reaching the ground, or explode. This one was big enough, or dense enough, to explode and still have some pieces hit the deck. Ten tons is the estimated weight of it, no idea of the composition but given that it has been estimated by some (but take this with a pinch of salt) to be 'several' meters across I'd say that it was quite dense rock, perhaps even iron.

There's plenty of sightings of fireballs in the US, here's one from October last here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFmM8s0H0c Chances are they're either dying satellites or a meteor. But when they reach the ground they're often so small that people don't notice them, occasionally some poor sod gets hit by them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_%28meteorite%29
Or car:
http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/210/wuwtc2.jpg

Or...dog...:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhla_meteorite

[Herr-Berbunch]

It's for evidence in insurance and criminal cases.

Interesting read - haven't these thugs realised that all they need to do is take the camera and associated bits. :hmmm:

[Nippelspanner]

Or...dog...:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhla_meteorite

Screenshot or it did not happen :O:
Nah, seriously, I doubt this fairytale a lot...

[Oberon]

Screenshot or it did not happen :O:
Nah, seriously, I doubt this fairytale a lot...

Yeah, it's a bit like that German kid or the Ugandan one. Still, as human settlements expand across the globe we'll get more instances of this happening I'd wager.

Interesting read - haven't these thugs realised that all they need to do is take the camera and associated bits. :hmmm:

I'd wager that many of these cameras have separate HDs that can be hidden within the bowels of the car, making a quick grab hard to do, by which time you can (if not immobilized) drive off.

[Dowly]

Apparently, this hole was made by some of the debris that survived:
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/i35fd883df644dcb18fe15ad55a37518b_1.jpg

[Nippelspanner]

And some people began to speculate that it may be a missile:06::06::06:.

Looks like NK's missile program isnt so shabby after all :hmmm:

[Catfish]

It is nature's reminder that our space program sucks big time :hmph:

[Nippelspanner]

^
As long as the world's countries are spending trazillibillions of bucks on military related programs instead of space programs, that wont change.
Bummer...

[Oberon]

It is nature's reminder that our space program sucks big time :hmph:

http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/32/bdhnzudcaaiw8ya.jpg

[Dowly]

Hahahaha :haha:

[Jimbuna]

Been watching the replays on the news at work today...fascinating stuff.

[TLAM Strike]

Some say comet, others say asteroid explosion. The results of the 2010 expedition tend to lean towards comet but it's still quite open.
Some other theories are that it was a micro-singularity or an comet made of antimatter. :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Some other theories are that it was a micro-singularity or an comet made of antimatter. :hmmm:


At least it wasn't the result of a DPRK calamity :)

[Dowly]

Phil "The Bad Astronomer" Plait is doing a DA14 livestream thingy right now if anyone is interested:
https://plus.google.com/+PhilipPlait/posts/M6QhbBan6Vs

[Stealhead]

I seem to recall hearing on the news when they mentioned this Russian meteorite they also said something about it not being related to another interstellar body that is supposed to pass with in 17,000 miles (fairly close) of earth in the next few days.:hmmm:

Maybe the meteorite over Russia was really all the poop that Iran's space monkey produced in space.The monkey ppo got dumped into space Iran wanted the monkey poo meteorite to destroy Tel Aviv guess it missed.:D


Very interesting though in all seriousness.

[Dowly]

I seem to recall hearing on the news when they mentioned this Russian meteorite they also said something about it not being related to another interstellar body that is supposed to pass with in 17,000 miles (fairly close) of earth in the next few days.:hmmm:

That would be DA14, closest to Earth in 9 minutes from this post. :up:

[Stealhead]

That would be DA14, closest to Earth in 9 minutes from this post. :up:

Hope that they got the math right. Someone drops one decimal by accident and it turns out that it is not going to pass us after all.

[em2nought]

Apparently, this hole was made by some of the debris that survived:
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/i35fd883df644dcb18fe15ad55a37518b_1.jpg

If Hello Kitty is at the bottom of that hole, we know who to blame. :D

[Rhodes]

If Hello Kitty is at the bottom of that hole, we know who to blame. :D

:har::har::har::yeah:

[Rhodes]

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4065/82545981.jpg

There was no meteorite, it was a weather balloon that exploded... All is well! Do you see any asteroid passing near? No!

[Wolferz]

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4065/82545981.jpg

There was no meteorite, it was a weather balloon that exploded... All is well! Do you see any asteroid passing near? No!
I will take you to airport and show you.

[Oberon]

Some CCTV footage of the shockwave, gives you an idea of the force of the thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvHl5Qcnzc

[AVGWarhawk]

If Hello Kitty is at the bottom of that hole, we know who to blame. :D

:haha: :up:

[AVGWarhawk]

This meteor could help solve the 1947 (possible) meteor hit or UFO.


http://www.sott.net/image/image/s3/72125/full/188805010.jpg

[Stealhead]

Is that photo from Tunguska? That occurred back in 1908 I think.Though I dont think any one got around to looking at the impact area until sometime in the 1930s.

I have heard the funny hair guy from History Channel claim that it was a UFO that was looking for Lake Bakal the largest body of fresh water on Earth seems some how the UFO exploded according to funny hair man.

[Rhodes]

This funny hair guy? http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXoQ1mkheskK7VMPQtkhXc-wVeNH5qAa08L2y0KTZ7nc9KtEcpsQ

[Jimbuna]

Funny hair guy

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRlAcV06-j_ipnonEOhi8n3UPYb34tymp4BjsjFQvPnqu2x2R60Kg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=funny+hair+man&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=B7HQYpiDR28JPM&tbnid=2MgwcvMNyS_TmM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barelyhangingon.com%2Frant-and-raves%2Fbad-hair-day%2F&ei=x6UeUbagB-mn4ATQ34GoCg&bvm=bv.42553238,d.bGE&psig=AFQjCNGnTBzSSO3ciPjH39iyNgke9JNGsw&ust=1361049411176836)

[AVGWarhawk]

Is that photo from Tunguska? That occurred back in 1908 I think.Though I dont think any one got around to looking at the impact area until sometime in the 1930s.

I have heard the funny hair guy from History Channel claim that it was a UFO that was looking for Lake Bakal the largest body of fresh water on Earth seems some how the UFO exploded according to funny hair man.

I just recall watching a program on this impact decades ago. The study of this newly arrived rock from space my explain the impact years ago.

[AVGWarhawk]

This funny hair guy? http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXoQ1mkheskK7VMPQtkhXc-wVeNH5qAa08L2y0KTZ7nc9KtEcpsQ



My daughters laugh like heck at this guy when he says, "Aliens."

[Jimbuna]

My daughters laugh like heck at this guy when he says, "Aliens."

Don't we all :)

[Stealhead]

I just recall watching a program on this impact decades ago. The study of this newly arrived rock from space my explain the impact years ago.

I saw some show(maybe the same one) about Tanguska the location is very remote so they can only get to it during the short summer months and can only go once a year.they showed video of the researchers covered by mosquitoes.

Anyway after the Soviets had tested some nuclear weapons they noticed that the blast pattern was very similar to the blast pattern that an air burst nuclear bomb generates.After discovering this many felt that the object must have exploded in the air.Of course there is a theory that the whole thing was caused by a massive methane gas pocket that somehow ignited.

[AVGWarhawk]

I saw some show(maybe the same one) about Tanguska the location is very remote so they can only get to it during the short summer months and can only go once a year.they showed video of the researchers covered by mosquitoes.

Anyway after the Soviets had tested some nuclear weapons they noticed that the blast pattern was very similar to the blast pattern that an air burst nuclear bomb generates.After discovering this many felt that the object must have exploded in the air.Of course there is a theory that the whole thing was caused by a massive methane gas pocket that somehow ignited.

Yes, that is place I'm thinking of. Odd indeed.

[Madox58]

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXoQ1mkheskK7VMPQtkhXc-wVeNH5qAa08L2y0KTZ7nc9KtEcpsQ

He always reminds me of the movie 'There's something about Mary".
http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/t/theres-something-about-mary-470-75.jpg
:har:

[Stealhead]

Yes, that is place I'm thinking of. Odd indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfvhJoNi90

This is the film that I was thinking of pretty interesting.I think the series "Nova" might have dedicated an episode to Tunguska as well.

It says a few minutes into the show that the first researcher did not get to the site until 1928! I guess that the remoteness and WWI and the Russian Civil War might have hindered things a bit.

It does make you think though what would have happened if in fact it was a large meteorite that exploded in the air(I think it was personally) had it have hit the surface in one solid piece what would have happened.


EDIT: You are right AVG another meteorite did hit the USSR in 1947 that one was a solid hit according to the film.

[Wolferz]

If Hello Kitty is at the bottom of that hole, we know who to blame. :D

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/6C2FEA4CC291CF6761384B1A03EEF_h316_w628_m5_cisrLkn Xa.jpg

[Takeda Shingen]

Funny hair guy

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRlAcV06-j_ipnonEOhi8n3UPYb34tymp4BjsjFQvPnqu2x2R60Kg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=funny+hair+man&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=B7HQYpiDR28JPM&tbnid=2MgwcvMNyS_TmM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barelyhangingon.com%2Frant-and-raves%2Fbad-hair-day%2F&ei=x6UeUbagB-mn4ATQ34GoCg&bvm=bv.42553238,d.bGE&psig=AFQjCNGnTBzSSO3ciPjH39iyNgke9JNGsw&ust=1361049411176836)

To think that at one time he looked normal.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zh63dkx_HA4/T7bi61frtmI/AAAAAAAAAUw/XsKZ93ppch8/s1600/PhilSpector276.jpg

[Armistead]

I haven't read many reports, but news reporting the sonic blast equaled an atomic bomb. I assume the blast was far enough from the city, but wondered what if it was over the city, what would the damage have been.

[eddie]

Its trajectory was pretty shallow, more horizontal. Wonder what would have happened if its course would have been more vertical, coming straight down over the city?

[darius359au]

Its trajectory was pretty shallow, more horizontal. Wonder what would have happened if its course would have been more vertical, coming straight down over the city?

Their saying the energy was in the hundreds of kilotons when it blew ,so pretty much would have levelled a large part of the city if it stayed in one piece or most of it if it had broken up and shotgunned the place!

We should have seen this coming but there's hardly any money spent by any government to look for these things:nope:

[CCIP]

Its trajectory was pretty shallow, more horizontal. Wonder what would have happened if its course would have been more vertical, coming straight down over the city?

Actually, in that case the pressure on the meteor would've been higher and it would have exploded even higher up in the atmosphere.

[Stealhead]

Their saying the energy was in the hundreds of kilotons when it blew ,so pretty much would have levelled a large part of the city if it stayed in one piece or most of it if it had broken up and shotgunned the place!

We should have seen this coming but there's hardly any money spent by any government to look for these things:nope:

At least as I understand it there is a "watch" so to speak for such things thing is there are so many interstellar bodies that could possibly collide with at least the atmosphere its simply impossible to track them all.If you count from the smallest several thousand meteors enter our atmosphere every day most of them happen to be small.

At best they can manage to keep track of every "earth destroying" body thing is even if they can and do spot one that will hit earth there is nothing we could be able to do about it with our current technology.At best maybe make some sort of long term survival attempt.Of course they have to spot a threat first and space is pretty much endless in that great expanse it is very difficult to find even something that could destroy earth if it hit us.Best not to worry about it because there is truly nothing we can really do about it.

[em2nought]

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/6C2FEA4CC291CF6761384B1A03EEF_h316_w628_m5_cisrLkn Xa.jpg
I knew it, we must get the UN to place sanctions on that seventh grader! :har:

[darius359au]

Size and mass has be revised up from earlier http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html

[Oberon]

With rough calculations I'd wager that if it had hit ground then it could have made a crater between 1000-2000 ft in diameter and a depth of about 500 ft.
It could well have done so underneath the lake, I don't know what the depth of that lake is, nor the size of what hit it.

It's going to give scientists around the world a lot of data on impact events to work on, that's for sure, due to how well it's been documented. :yep:

[mapuc]

According to the conspiracist(yep even this one have got it's conspiracy) it was a UFO that was shot down

Markus

[Jimbuna]

According to the conspiracist(yep even this one have got it's conspiracy) it was a UFO that was shot down

Markus

So nothing has changed :)

[Platapus]

We should have seen this coming but there's hardly any money spent by any government to look for these things:nope:

We do (and also other countries do) watch for these things. Perhaps you meant that more money should be spent on what to do once one is spotted.

The answer to that may be that there is really nothing we can do with present technology.

Now a moon base with interceptors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EkR2GlzEFg&playnext=1&list=PL615FDE3738C95229&feature=results_main

[Armistead]

Another meteorite over Cali, reports state it also has a sonic boom.

http://www.examiner.com/video/2013-california-shooting-star-fireball-meteor-rack-up-youtube-video-views-video

[Tribesman]

According to the conspiracist(yep even this one have got it's conspiracy) it was a UFO that was shot down

According to the Russian Liberals it was Obama that did it:haha:

[Stealhead]

With rough calculations I'd wager that if it had hit ground then it could have made a crater between 1000-2000 ft in diameter and a depth of about 500 ft.
It could well have done so underneath the lake, I don't know what the depth of that lake is, nor the size of what hit it.

It's going to give scientists around the world a lot of data on impact events to work on, that's for sure, due to how well it's been documented. :yep:

Indeed we now know that Hello Kitty meteorites contain Pop Tarts.