Russian city hit by meteorite
 

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 ).

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

Glad its only minor injuries!

WoW!!! :o

Wow indeed!

Bruce Willis is on standby for Die Hardmageddon.

:o

Wow indeed!

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

HunterICX

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/obser...189052161.html

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

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

Man, that thing looked HUGE!!! :o

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

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!

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

Space Popcorn.:down:

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.

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!

Collection of videos on German news site:

Videos

SIGHTS TO BEHOLD
 

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?

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

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

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.