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Title: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Slash27 on February 15, 2013, 01:14:46 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0cRHsApzt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxXYscmgRg&feature=player_embedded#!


What time is that big one supposed to miss us today anyway?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Maniac on February 15, 2013, 01:22:35 AM
What kind of Tsunami would that have caused if it hit in the water? if any? too small right?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Bruv119 on February 15, 2013, 01:30:27 AM
Dam, I'm glad Russian drivers are so terrible they all have video cameras in their cars to catch such rare events for us to watch on the internets. 
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 15, 2013, 02:53:24 AM
Pretty unreal...
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 15, 2013, 03:01:55 AM
 :noid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He_PWsJqsVY
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Gh0stFT on February 15, 2013, 03:47:13 AM
IMHO Looks more like Space Debris, way to slow.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Scotch on February 15, 2013, 04:00:03 AM
400 Injuries Reportedmost from breaking glass. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html?_r=0
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Scotch on February 15, 2013, 04:05:33 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2XXa5oFhw damage
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on February 15, 2013, 04:10:11 AM
Agreed ghost, way too slow.



Someone just lost something important, as to how what or why. who knows..time will tell.


 :bolt:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 15, 2013, 04:14:24 AM
IMHO Looks more like Space Debris, way to slow.

Atmospheric entry lasted only about 10 seconds. That's way faster than anything in orbit. For something in orbit to reenter and hit the ground would take 12-15 minutes if not more.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Gh0stFT on February 15, 2013, 04:54:13 AM
I revise my observation, the more Videos i see the more it really looks like a Meteor.
They talking about this "thing" was about just 1-2 meters, ...really scary if you imagine what
a 100m big thing would look like.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 15, 2013, 05:09:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=36MEsWC1Pzc
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: ozrocker on February 15, 2013, 06:36:17 AM
I revise my observation, the more Videos i see the more it really looks like a Meteor.
They talking about this "thing" was about just 1-2 meters, ...really scary if you imagine what
a 100m big thing would look like.
The one in 1908 that knocked down millions of trees over an 820 square mile area,
was figured to have been only 150 feet wide, for a bit of perspective :aok
If something of that size had entered, we'd be talking today of many deaths instead of roughly 400 injured.
Today is gonna be a real close pass of not a small Meteorite, but a rather large Asteroid.
Not gonna even think of what would happen if that thing was gonna hit.
                                                                                                              :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: zack1234 on February 15, 2013, 07:13:36 AM
I hope Lusche,Chris3 and Debrody were not affected by said Meteor :old:

Shida,Danny and all of the Members of The GFC believe this is a sign from above :old:

The Gloster Meteor is long over due in the game :old:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: bj229r on February 15, 2013, 08:23:42 AM
Ahem.....if a meter hits the GROUND....it becomes a meteorITE!
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: mbailey on February 15, 2013, 08:26:17 AM
I wonder if it was a piece of the one thats passing by today.  :headscratch:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: BreakingBad on February 15, 2013, 08:42:56 AM
It's amazing to watch that dash cam video that shows it first appearing then moving across the sky.  I always wondered what it would look like at the point of entry....it just appears from nothing and gets larger.

I wonder how large this thing was.  Can't wait to hear more about it.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: smoe on February 15, 2013, 08:56:53 AM
Yep, we are done for. This is exactly how many of the end-of-times movies begin.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Meatwad on February 15, 2013, 09:00:45 AM
Id be more worried about some trigger happy russian pushing a few launch buttons  at the time of the flash/blast simply because of this reason

"The area around Chelyabinsk is also home to “dozens of defense factories, including nuclear factories and those involved in production of thermonuclear weapons,” said Vladimir Lipunov, an astrophysicist at the Shternberg State Astronomy Institute."

We got lucky one of their old defense computers didnt detect this as an attack and decide to launch a retaliatory strike on its own
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: BreakingBad on February 15, 2013, 09:22:21 AM
I read somewhere I think that today's meteor, the one that is the size of a swimming pool, is only missing an impact with earth by 14 minutes of earth orbit around the sun.  :noid

I gather it will be invisible to the naked eye, but that it is passing within the orbit of our higher satellites.

Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Meatwad on February 15, 2013, 09:27:48 AM
http://www.spaceweather.com/ is down  :noid
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: mbailey on February 15, 2013, 09:32:33 AM
I wonder if it was a piece of the one thats passing by today.  :headscratch:

Scratch that, found my answer....cut from a USA Today artical

"The Earth travels about a million miles in a day and these are two events separated by almost 24 hours, so it is unlikely they are connected," says asteroid expert Richard Binzel of MIT. Meteors the size of the Russian one hit Earth every few years, Binzel says, but land near inhabited places much less often. "We just have the incredible coincidence of this happening just before the asteroid flies by," Binzel says.

Further, the Russian meteor landed in the Northern hemisphere while Asteroid 2012 DA14 is approaching from the direction of the South Pole, arguing against a connection.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Maniac on February 15, 2013, 09:41:22 AM
Alot of "random" events latly imo, the lightning striking the Vatican the day the Pope resigned comes to mind.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on February 15, 2013, 10:16:22 AM
Alot of "random" events latly imo, the lightning striking the Vatican the day the Pope resigned comes to mind.

The vatican dome gets lightning strikes probably on every thunderstorm. It just made a nice headline this time.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: PanosGR on February 15, 2013, 10:37:14 AM
spaceweather is back on line again. NOW prepare your self's for the DA14. In a few hours
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 15, 2013, 11:18:27 AM
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26232318/asteroids.jpg)
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: nrshida on February 15, 2013, 01:07:07 PM
I saw the videos and thought it was Chalenge or EAce rtbing for more fuel  :old:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: warhed on February 15, 2013, 01:57:23 PM
Alot of "random" events latly imo, the lightning striking the Vatican the day the Pope resigned comes to mind.

Random events segregate non-randomly
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: cpxxx on February 15, 2013, 06:44:06 PM
When I saw the videos. I was jealous. How come the damm Russians get all the interesting stuff? Now I'm furiously touching wood because the last time I said something like that. I paid for it. Made some crack that we never get a serious thunderstorm here in Ireland. As I lay under my bed begging God to make it stop later that night. I somewhat regretted my rashness.

So leave it to the Russians and their dash cams.

Look to the skies!
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: AAJagerX on February 15, 2013, 07:29:51 PM
This is just the beginning...

(http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w63/jager515/starhiptroopers_zpsc513835a.jpg)
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: RedBull1 on February 15, 2013, 07:48:57 PM
I saw the videos and thought it was Chalenge or EAce rtbing for more fuel  :old:

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :aok
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: BoilerDown on February 15, 2013, 08:05:17 PM
NASA is saying it was an asteroid about 50ft across, kicked out of the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, probably was sent on its course that ended at Earth today for about a year, traveling at a speed of 40,000 kph.  Detonated 12-15 miles up with the force of a 0.3 megaton bomb. 

Came in with an unusually shallow trajectory, just like you see in all the movies.  Usually they're supposed to come in straight down more or less, and the movie version where it streaks across the sky is supposed to be a rarity.  I'm starting to think they could be mistaken on that point, because all the meteor movies are cross-sky streaks.  Granted those are easier to capture on film too.

The noise of the detonation in the YouTube videos is pretty spectacular.  I like this one, wish he'd hold the camera sideways though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Np_mpGYSBSA .  It would be easy to think that you just got nuked, though I'd imagine an ICBM contrail would look different I suppose.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 15, 2013, 08:49:33 PM
Shock waves are a biatch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b7mLUIDGqmw

In Russia... Space explore YOU!
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: titanic3 on February 15, 2013, 08:59:11 PM
Dang, must've been an amazing/scary experience to witness first hand. Wish I was there.  :eek:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Meatwad on February 15, 2013, 09:50:44 PM
Wonder what it would of been like if it would of exploded only 1 mile above the surface?

Another question.....if the above would of happened with the estimated force of 300kt, would the russian defense system see that as an atomic weapon detonation and self-launch a counterstrike since it happened at nuclear defense site?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Slash27 on February 15, 2013, 10:11:17 PM
Wonder what it would of been like if it would of exploded only 1 mile above the surface?

Another question.....if the above would of happened with the estimated force of 300kt, would the russian defense system see that as an atomic weapon detonation and self-launch a counterstrike since it happened at nuclear defense site?
At who?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Meatwad on February 15, 2013, 10:22:27 PM
likely the us
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Slash27 on February 15, 2013, 10:26:00 PM
They should nuke Mars as an example.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: titanic3 on February 15, 2013, 10:39:51 PM
They should nuke Mars as an example.

Plot twist: The meteor was a Mars attack. Planetary battles anyone?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Nathan60 on February 15, 2013, 11:12:07 PM
In soviet russian you dont go to space, space come to you.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: chaser on February 16, 2013, 12:30:33 AM
San Fransisco's turn tonight! Anyone see it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLpTOc1i8_8&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Slash27 on February 16, 2013, 01:13:43 AM
Plot twist: The meteor was a Mars attack. Planetary battles anyone?
Maybe those bugs shot it at us? Where's Denise Richards and Rico when you need them?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on February 16, 2013, 02:49:59 AM
Plot twist: The meteor was a Mars attack. Planetary battles anyone?

With all the re makes coming lately, i would welcome your plot.

Edit: $^%& thats already been done....
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Sundowner on February 16, 2013, 04:36:15 AM
Let's see...Earth near-miss by a 150 feet asteroid...Meteor explosion injures 1000 and damages buildings in Russia....fireball sighted over San Fransisco...and now an exploding fireball over Havana, Cuba...all in the same day.
Hmmm..... :headscratch:

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”--Socrates

Regards,
Sun


Edit:Not all in the same day...Cuba fireball was Thursday night...some sources say Wednesday...exploding fireballs occurring 1 or 2 days apart happen all the time. :D---my bad.--Sun

Suspected meteor explosion reported in central Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- An object fell from the sky over central Cuba on Thursday night and turned into a fireball "bigger than the sun" before it exploded, a Cuban TV channel reported Friday, citing eyewitnesses.

Some residents in the central province of Cienfuegos were quoted as saying that at around 8 p.m. local time Thursday (0100 GMT Friday) they saw a bright spot in the sky comparable to a bus in size.

The object then turned into a fireball "bigger than the sun," said the witnesses, adding that several minutes later they heard a loud explosion.

One resident told the TV station that his house shook slightly in the blast.

Cuban experts have been dispatched to the area to look for possible remains of the meteor-like object, said the report.

It remains unknown whether the reported phenomenon in Cuba is related to Friday's meteor strike in central Russia, which set off a shockwave that shattered windows and left some 1,000 people injured.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-02/16/c_132171646.htm

Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Curval on February 16, 2013, 06:00:17 AM
Latest shot from Russian ground zero:

(http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa409/Christopher_Morris/meanwhileinrussia_zpsb35140f4.jpg)
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: bigsky on February 16, 2013, 07:41:16 AM
they are coming from Klendathu, a bug planet.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: mbailey on February 16, 2013, 08:39:09 AM
   Where's Denise Richards and Rico when you need them?

Their off looking for their acting careers  :D
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Shane on February 16, 2013, 12:27:55 PM
Their off looking for their acting careers  :D

And they took your grammar rule book with them, apparently.  :noid  :neener: :bolt:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Devil 505 on February 16, 2013, 12:41:37 PM
The only good bug, is a DEAD bug!
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: skorpx1 on February 16, 2013, 12:46:49 PM
If nobody has corrected this, let me be the first to do so.


*Meteorite.

Meteors burn up in the atmosphere, meteorites hit the ground.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: BoilerDown on February 16, 2013, 12:57:25 PM
And a meteor that buries itself into the ground and liquifies is called a magmeorite.

At least read the thread before posting a "correction" that you assume, incorrectly, is needed.

Anyways, NASA is upgrading their estimated size to around 60 feet and the explosion energy to about 500 kilotons.  I just read a story about a teacher that pulled the old cold war duck and cover instructions to her students, her students were unscathed as the shock wave blew out the windows of her classroom, while she was badly cut up.  Apparently duck and cover still has value, yeah if you're near the blast you're screwed, but if you're in the periphery it could save you from injury.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Buzzard7 on February 16, 2013, 12:58:41 PM
NASA is saying it was an asteroid about 50ft across, kicked out of the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, probably was sent on its course that ended at Earth today for about a year, traveling at a speed of 40,000 kph.  Detonated 12-15 miles up with the force of a 0.3 megaton bomb. 

Came in with an unusually shallow trajectory, just like you see in all the movies.  Usually they're supposed to come in straight down more or less, and the movie version where it streaks across the sky is supposed to be a rarity.  I'm starting to think they could be mistaken on that point, because all the meteor movies are cross-sky streaks.  Granted those are easier to capture on film too.

The noise of the detonation in the YouTube videos is pretty spectacular.  I like this one, wish he'd hold the camera sideways though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Np_mpGYSBSA .  It would be easy to think that you just got nuked, though I'd imagine an ICBM contrail would look different I suppose.


New estimates put it at 10,000 tons,55 ft diameter. About 500 kiloton explosive force. JPL says this is from the ground sensor data they put together.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on February 16, 2013, 01:00:27 PM
And a meteor that buries itself into the ground and liquifies is called a magmeorite.

At least read the thread before posting a "correction" that you assume, incorrectly, is needed.

Anyways, NASA is upgrading their estimated size to around 60 feet and the explosion energy to about 500 kilotons.  I just read a story about a teacher that pulled the old cold war duck and cover instructions to her students, her students were unscathed as the shock wave blew out the windows of her classroom, while she was badly cut up.  Apparently duck and cover still has value, yeah if you're near the blast you're screwed, but if you're in the periphery it could save you from injury.


Model example of 'do as I tell you to do, not as I do'  :D
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Dragon on February 16, 2013, 01:05:26 PM
I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5eg_lk8zA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5eg_lk8zA)

Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Slash27 on February 16, 2013, 03:49:29 PM
Their off looking for their acting careers  :D
Who would have thought Jake Busey would have a better career?
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Meatwad on February 16, 2013, 08:48:28 PM
I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5eg_lk8zA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5eg_lk8zA)



Clip was ruined when the music was thrown into it
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: mbailey on February 16, 2013, 09:23:33 PM
And they took your grammar rule book with them, apparently.  :noid  :neener: :bolt:

They're.....oops  Being that I followed it with a  present participle verb (looking) you would be correct.   Thank you for the correction  ( I found the book, they didnt get far)   :P  :neener: :aok
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Shane on February 16, 2013, 09:44:27 PM
I just took the opportunity to pick you while you were vulching.  :neener:
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Vulcan on February 17, 2013, 02:15:01 AM
Agreed ghost, way too slow.



Someone just lost something important, as to how what or why. who knows..time will tell.


 :bolt:

So you experts, too slow became 40000+ km/h

Comments?    :devil
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Gh0stFT on February 17, 2013, 05:25:30 AM
So you experts, too slow became 40000+ km/h

Comments?    :devil

Reply #10
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: ghi on February 17, 2013, 08:15:19 AM
Amazing how many Russians are using dash cams recording every step; this was the best meteor ever recorded thx to this toys.
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: mbailey on February 17, 2013, 08:57:02 AM
I just took the opportunity to pick you while you were vulching.  :neener:

(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/snapped.jpg)   :rofl
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: bj229r on February 17, 2013, 10:22:30 AM
Amazing how many Russians are using dash cams recording every step; this was the best meteor ever recorded thx to this toys.
prolly all KGB :aok
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: bigsky on February 17, 2013, 10:42:29 AM
And they took your grammar rule book with them, apparently.  :noid  :neener: :bolt:
(http://www.lolbrary.com/content/751/when-comforting-a-grammar-nazi-17751.jpg)
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: phatzo on February 17, 2013, 04:28:20 PM
Does anyone here remember Skylab? I was allowed to stay up and watch it but fell asleep long before it re-entered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1a6JHZJq8
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Motherland on February 17, 2013, 08:55:56 PM
Amazing how many Russians are using dash cams recording every step; this was the best meteor ever recorded thx to this toys.
It's for insurance reasons due to the extremely high frequency of car accidents in Russia. There are lots of videos of people trying fake being rear-ended and being foiled by the dash cam
It's becoming more common in the US as well
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: KgB on February 17, 2013, 09:50:06 PM
It's for insurance reasons due to the extremely high frequency of car accidents in Russia. There are lots of videos of people trying fake being rear-ended and being foiled by the dash cam
It's becoming more common in the US as well
Not as frequent as you might think actually. Its just Russia is known for amount of scams and pure idiocy. Here is one of them, explains the reason for famous Russian roads.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=145_1361121371
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Motherland on February 18, 2013, 12:31:50 AM
Not as frequent as you might think actually. Its just Russia is known for amount of scams and pure idiocy. Here is one of them, explains the reason for famous Russian roads.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=145_1361121371
I was thinking of stuff like this
I love this video just because of how the expressions change once they realize the guy has a dash cam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQN8B8Jb9k
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: GScholz on February 23, 2013, 04:57:48 AM
Russian reaction to meteorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wvzzsZn0bI

 :lol
Title: Re: Russia hit by meteor
Post by: Getback on February 23, 2013, 02:52:11 PM
I saw a meteor once. It sizzled across the sky. No explosion though.