Large Meteorite in Russia

I didnt hear about that one. Thanks for the post and great pics scaru!

oh these looks like crashing jets :open_mouth:

Is that missile story is true ?

I find it hard to believe the Russians (or anyone else) can detect a meteor that size (small) entering the atmosphere at ~33,000 mph - with no warning - assess the threat - decide it is be should be destroyed - launch a missile - successfully intercept the meteor.

On the other hand…what do I know about air defense missiles…

I heard about that this morning on the way to work. I was hoping there would be video. Thanks for the links, Scaru!

I, too, was wondering why they’re are so many dash cams in Russia. Article here. Sure made for some amazing videos of the meteor.

Ill go with the bit about it being intercepted by a missile ,not just russia but the usa will have been tracking it,also the shockwave is just like a blast .not getting into a scientific argument just what i think

at least we know its not the same guy responsible for photoshopping (apparently) that new high end tech jet from Iran!

I would be out searching for pieces that’s for sure. Even if I found a huge one it would be hard to part with. But then again it would buy a lot of flashlights.

+1

Here's another video;

http://lifenews.ru/news/110800

Rather small, but to me it's just incredible how bright it was.

another asteroid passing today

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

fake video

JPL will offer live coverage of the big one’s close flyby at 17,000 miles at 11:25 a.m. PST.

Any final words in case the scientists are wrong?

Better make sure your flashlights are charged in case it impacts and creates a giant dust cloud, like the one that darkened the sun so much that all the dinosaurs kicked off.

final words?

FINALLY! J)

final words?

Soylent Green is People

While I can’t say what is being said that mine has been burning over there for quite a while even though it has nothing related to this incident. They did mess with the footage at the end so it looked like it blew up, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it was fake.

If they were trying to say that the burning pit was the result of the meteor, well then yeah that didn’t happen. Nor did it get blown up overhead, footage from multiple sources verifies this.

Ehh I’m not concerned, even in the case of a catastrophic disaster I think with enough innovation we could get through it. Oil will last for a while and hydrogen a bit longer but eventually we would have to do something extreme. Even if we have to live off of nuclear reactors for a few generations and put the waste somewhere else.

It’s still cool that we understand more about these things then we have anytime in the past, but it comes with the reality that there is still a bunch of stuff that we have absolutely no clue about. No one has ever seen a meteor before impact up close and we don’t really know where or how they end up how they do.

it appears i may b completely wrong as the sly meteor approached earth with the sun behind it blinding a attempts to track it …hmmmmm

Here’s a fun toy

http://www.asterank.com/3d/

and a good soundtrack for while you’re playing with that

That object was approximately 1m wide. You cannot track an object of that size. And intercept it at 30km/s :bigsmile: ?