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

It's for evidence in insurance and criminal cases.

http://jalopnik.com/why-russians-are...h-cams-5918159

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

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.

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..._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/Chesape..._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

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

Sorry for going off topic.
 

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

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.

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.

Apparently, this hole was made by some of the debris that survived:
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/...5a37518b_1.jpg

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

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

Hahahaha :haha:

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

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 :)

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

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.

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.