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Blazing Meteor Fireball Injures 400 In Russia!
Update now says over 1000 injured... video with news information below... newscaster in purple dress is a hottie too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl … 6MEsWC1Pzc More astounding video here... checkout runtime at 036...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI Updated video below... stating close to 1000 were injured...  Feb 15 13 03:14 am Link And this was a completely different meteor than the one predicted for today. Universe totally faked us out. Feb 15 13 03:28 am Link Yes, amazing footage of this event being seen over here, almost looks like a scene out of a Michael Bay movie! And, oddly enough this strike is just hours before the big rock passes by later today! Let's hope they got their calculations right? Feb 15 13 03:30 am Link Robb Mann wrote: In Soviet Russia, God trolls you. Feb 15 13 03:35 am Link Amazing portent. . Feb 15 13 03:43 am Link London Fog wrote: Maybe their timing was off as this fireball blazed over Russia Friday morning around 9am... Feb 15 13 03:59 am Link Probably a "stony"asteroid(which is what this thing actually was),which means it was losely (relatively speaking)put together,and why it exploded so high up... If this was more compact and had a higher iron content...this seriously would have fucked shit up. The energy released in this incident was easily of that of a small nuclear weapon,and had this thing come closer to the surface and exploded(like Tunguska in 1908)it would have had the effect of a nuclear weapon detonating(sans the radiation).. And what people don't realize is how frequently something like this happens on earth(an average of every 5 years),most of the time its higher up in the atmosphere and over the ocean.. Feb 15 13 07:06 am Link I feel sorry for those injured but man, was that amazing or what? I wonder how many of you saw anything that is bigger and brighter than sun. That alone could be enough for many to make a mess in their nickers. Feb 15 13 07:08 am Link Digital Photo PLUS wrote: Agreed! Feb 15 13 07:10 am Link double post gg MM Feb 15 13 07:11 am Link Russian Katarina wrote: There is a lot of cursing going on in the videos. Understandably so. Feb 15 13 07:14 am Link There is a video out there from a dashboard camera of a guy driving around in a parking lot, probably a security guard, showing the shock wave arriving some two and a half minutes after the flash. In many cases the shock wave came as the folks went outside buildings to take pictures of the funny clouds and got rained on by falling glass from windows. Ouch. Note to self: do not stand near windows after a meteor flash. Feb 15 13 07:21 am Link bgcfoto wrote: So you were hoping the blob came out??? Feb 15 13 07:26 am Link Chris Rifkin wrote: no, could be something like a Mantis or Greedo looking thing. Amazon space women? Feb 15 13 07:45 am Link Beware: 2:24PM EST.......today! Feb 15 13 08:11 am Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: ? Feb 15 13 08:15 am Link bgcfoto wrote: Oh sweet,a Zorak Feb 15 13 08:22 am Link Have you seen the footage where only the shifting daytime shadows are shown moving rapidly across the ground as the meteorite passes overhead? Stupendous. Feb 15 13 08:22 am Link  Feb 15 13 08:27 am Link In Soviet Russia, meteor booms you! Another article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom … ussia.html Feb 15 13 08:43 am Link Just an observation... Did NASA and other space agencies not realize there may be several pieces of the asteroid? Did they search for them? Did they find them? If not, why not? If they did find them, they had to be able to track them and know when and where the Earth would be hit. Was it kept secret to avoid mass hysteria? Or was it because they wanted to have teams in the air and on the ground nearby to capture video, collect pieces of the debris and conduct other scientific studies without interference from the media and general public? Conspiracy theories abound! The Roswell incident wasn't even a blip on the radar compared to this. Feb 15 13 08:43 am Link Digital Photo PLUS wrote: Fur sure... probably a few million 'WTF was that?'... Feb 15 13 08:44 am Link Updated video here... stating close to 1000 were injured... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI Feb 15 13 08:55 am Link Marc Damon wrote: can they detect such a small piece of space junk, at the speed it was traveling? Select Models wrote: man, those are some groovy freaking tunes those reds listen to. Feb 15 13 08:59 am Link GK photo wrote: Marc Damon wrote: can they detect such a small piece of space junk, at the speed it was traveling? I knoooooooow... I was rockin out to those too... Feb 15 13 09:10 am Link i don't know, man. i doubt i could live anywhere where winter dawn isn't until 9:00. back to the space junk... Feb 15 13 09:14 am Link That's intense! Anyone seen any reports, or who can do the math and physics, to explain how high up the meteor would need to be to take about 30 seconds for the sonic boom to be heard on the ground. ETA: Perhaps the sonic event occurred when it first entered the atmosphere? Feb 15 13 09:19 am Link Andialu wrote: Honestly, are people so unaware, or couldn't careless? Feb 15 13 09:21 am Link Skydancer Photos wrote: i believe they said it was 30k feet above earth when it started to come apart. Feb 15 13 09:21 am Link Skydancer Photos wrote: Sound travels slower than Light. Ok School is over Michael!!! lol Feb 15 13 09:23 am Link Skydancer Photos wrote: Speed of sound is approximately 700 miles an hour... time to get out your calculator... Feb 15 13 09:23 am Link Select Models wrote: That tells you how far, but not how high. Feb 15 13 09:24 am Link Select Models wrote: They say it was traveling 33,000 mph...when it came apart when it hit Earth's Atmosphere.... Feb 15 13 09:26 am Link London Fog wrote: Couldn't careless or couldn't care less? I know about the other one. I was just wondering why the beware. It's not going to hit. Feb 15 13 09:27 am Link Andialu wrote: Hmmmmm... OK... so is altitude like measured in swizzle sticks?... Feb 15 13 09:31 am Link GK photo wrote: Marc Damon wrote: can they detect such a small piece of space junk, at the speed it was traveling? Sounded like one of the songs was Gangnam Style Feb 15 13 10:15 am Link GK photo wrote: If that thing had exploded 30K above the earth you would have seen a mushroom cloud,and it would have looked like a nuclear weapon had detonated.... Feb 15 13 10:17 am Link http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?gui … e7c611bda3 The meteor — estimated to be about 10 tons — entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered into pieces about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement. Feb 15 13 10:29 am Link I bet there were a lot of soiled pants that day Feb 15 13 10:36 am Link Chris Rifkin wrote: no sir....it was traveling 33,000 mph...there was a brighter light when it did fall apart. But no mushroom. since it was traveling east to west!!! lol Feb 15 13 10:40 am Link |
