Meteor Strike in Russia with video

[Silver Creek]

http://bostonglobe.com/news/world/20...OnN/story.html




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

[ScottP]

Amazing footage. This was just a "little" 10 ton meteor; imagine what would happen if the asteroid 2012 DA14 (190,000 tons), hit?

Regards,
Scott

[jszymczyk]

it wasn't a "STRIKE"

as far as we know so far, it exploded high in the atmosphere (20-30 miles, airliners typically fly 5-7 miles high) and only small frags are likely to have hit the ground.

still very impressive. If something like that were to hold together through entry and actually slam into a populated area, it would turn into a Formerly Populated area.

[Silver Creek]

Large asteroid hits Jupiter.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

[maodiver]

Amazing footage. This was just a "little" 10 ton meteor; imagine what would happen if the asteroid 2012 DA14 (190,000 tons), hit?

Regards,
Scott

Depends on where. Tsunami? City killer? Dust cloud?

[Rocketfish]

H.S.!!!!!!!!

[DG]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-061

...the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons.

...The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons.


Although I suspect those numbers will be refined over the coming days and weeks.

That is still a BFR.

[DG]

They revised the numbers a bit...

"The estimated size of the object, prior to entering Earth's atmosphere, has been
revised upward from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters), and its
estimated mass has increased from 7,000 to 10,000 tons. Also, the estimate for
energy released during the event has increased by 30 kilotons to nearly 500
kilotons of energy released. These new estimates were generated using new data
that had been collected by five additional infrasound stations located around
the world ? the first recording of the event being in Alaska, over 6,500
kilometers away from Chelyabinsk."

That explosion was far enough away that it took about three minutes (from various stories I have heard) for the shock wave to reach Chelyabinsk, and it still had enough energy in it to blow out all those windows.

I also noticed that nobody reacted like all those duck-and-cover drills we learned back in school (and I assume they learned over there, as well)

[sagefisher]

Well, there is a Hale Bopp leech fly. Think anyone will tie a Chelyabinsk Streamer fly? Bit of a tougue twister, may not catch on.

Larry ---sagefisher---

[WarrenP]

I am surprised that no one mentioned that the effects of it were felt here in Tennessee yesterday. It knocked out our connection to FAOL for several hours!!!!!

Thankfully, we have FAOL back.....