Chelyabinsk meteor . . . Holy Carp!

Meteor Crash Reportedly Injured Over 100 People In Russia | TechCrunch has a link to Meteorite explosion over Russia injures dozens | Science | guardian.co.uk . I saw the 2nd video from The Guardian on my local news. They later cut away to a view of some building w/tons of busted windows.

The building at the end of BBC News - Meteor shower blows out windows in Russia might've been the building featured.

 

Indeed. A nuclear attack would be VERY bad!

Another video:

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The news earlier was unclear about whether this meteorite is related to asteroid 2012 DA14 coming pretty close to us soon.

 

Holy carp? lol

 

Over 500 feared injured.

Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured - CNN.com

Explosion caught on video . . .

Checkout how the window frames are caved in!!


Not 2012 DA14 wrong trajectory. It's coming next according to some.

 

A couple of other useful links

BREAKING: Huge Meteor Explodes Over Russia.
zyalt: Взрыв метеорита в небе над Уралом... Вся информация в одном посте.

Enjoy the videos, all you youtube-enabled

a) atmospheric shockwave induced
b) everybody goes to their windows to look at the incandescent trails
c) shockwave arrives at ground level
d) glass shards arrive in face

So, if you see b), presume that c) will follow soon and make an effort to avoid d). Just sayin'

A lot of meteoritic material is going to be recovered from this I reckon.

 

^ That meteoritic material is quite valuable to some.

BTW: The top link in my post is to CNN. If you have access to CNN they have a vid not linked to Youtube.

 

First thing I thought of when I saw the reports was Bob and DA14.

 

Not that Bob.

 

I just watches 2012DA14 pass on NASA'a site, very cool!
The footage in Russia is really impressive!
A little steeper angle, it might have turned out with Tunguska like results!

 

One of the CNN reporters noted the size of the meteor was about the size of a Prius v! Moving considerably faster!
It's nice to have known reference points!
It came in from sun side, it's why no one noticed it until it was too late!

 

This 'Prius' size category is nearly undetectable (at distance) but also much more abundant than the 50-meter 'city killers' or the 500-meter 'good bye and thanks for all the fish' size categories.

So, for the littles, we can seemingly do no more than suggest average rates (like 1 per decade) and suppose that only 5% of them will partially blow down cities.

Please remember that averages like that are +/- everything, and offer no assurance that the next one will not be latter today

Fake meteorite material has already been offered for sale in Russia; an illustration of entrepeneurial* spirit.

* I use the Evan Fusco spelling of entrepeneurial

 

Or God included the particles to keep you guessing.

 

It fell over the Chelyabinsk Oblast

 

I don't know Chuck.... that looks photochopped to me.

 

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