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Possibly associated with the asteroid currently passing close to Earth? Will there be more?

Meteorite's fiery flash through the atmosphere (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7c-0iwBEswE)

The explosion when it hits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0cRHsApzt8)

Lots more videos here (http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/meteorite-crash-reported-in-russia).

News report (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/15/meteorite-explosion-shakes-russian) at The Guardian.


Edits: Astronomy blogger says it's the wrong direction and too early (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html) to be associated with the asteroid. He thinks coincidence.

This compilation video of the atmospheric entry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI) is good - ignore the UFO conspiracy title :-)

Editing again: Interfax reports 150 injured (http://www.interfax.co.uk/russia-news/some-150-injured-in-chelyabinsk-region-following-meteor-shower-interior-ministry/?utm_campaign=some-150-injured-in-chelyabinsk-region-following-meteor-shower-interior-ministry&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter)

Edit 3: Best collection of videos and pics I've seen (http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1), including stuff on the ground.

That's damn amazing.  Rama.

Holy crap. So who else is expecting to see aliens climbing out of that building that got hit?

Also, how come people are videoing while they drive along? Just on the offchance that an alien spacecraft asteroid flies through the sky?

Apparently dashboard cameras have become massively popular in Russia (http://www.businessinsider.com/why-russian-drivers-have-dash-cams-2012-12) due to police corruption and insurance fraud. People want to be able to prove what happened.

The chances of anything coming from Mars Space is a million to one.

The crater video is pretty astonishing. I don't see how that guy could have gotten as close as he did.

Note: the crater video is UNRELATED. It's given with a link to the Russian Wikipedia, warning that it's being spread as a fake meteorite crater, but is actually Derweze in Turkmenistan, a natural gas crater that has been burning for decades.

Ah! Phew. That just didn't make any sense to me.

(http://i.imgur.com/PYRQ6wr.gif)

Replicators have landed!  This photo is from your last link.

(http://s12.postimage.org/kuesbkahp/image.jpg)

Heh, one in a billion shot.  Modern tech, amazing.

I'm really more concerned about the upcoming near miss.  It's passing below the orbit of satellites as it is.  I ponder what will happen if we have another one of those mega-quakes that rocks the Earth in its orbit *just enough*

Never tell me the odds.

Can't tell if the pictures of buildings are from before the impact or afterwards. Because, you know, Russia is a wasteland.

(http://pit.dirty.ru/lepro/2/2013/02/15/57197-102530-4b388aba77729df9c1302ada44ac49d7.png)

Those videos kicked in my "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!" panic.

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85916/thundarr_ohnoes.jpg)


:awesome_for_real:

One-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky, followed by meteor showers and tidal waves, followed by fault lines that can not sit still, followed by millions of dumb-founded dipshits.

(http://s11.postimage.org/f298z2uoz/omfgwtfbbq.jpg)

 :drillf:

California's next!

According to some Russian politician this was an attack from the U.S.

(http://cdn0.hark.com/images/000/001/157/1157/original.jpg)

In soviet russia....

I do enjoy how extremist across the globe have more faith in our government than most of us do.  Crazy leaders in Iran, Russia, and random other places (including the US) are convinced we have a weather machine we are using to throw horrible storms at them.  Or that we have an earthquake machine.  Or that we caused the Tsunami in southeast Asia to take out growing economic rivals.  Or now apparently a space based weapon we decided to use by attacking a remote area of Russia.

Also:
(http://proxy.storify.com/?url=http://distilleryimage2.s3.amazonaws.com/c2613918775c11e2996722000a9f18fe_7.jpg&resize=1&w=490)

I think the best WTF reporting this morning was the various sites repeating a rumor that the Russians had fragmented the meteor on entry by shooting a missile at it.

Space explores you

It wasn't someone asking Bill Nye if global warming had caused it?

Why Russians have dash cams (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/15/russian-roads-dash-cams-video)

 :drill:

<quietly crosses Russia off her list of places to consider renting a car>

All things considered, I'm actually more amazed that Americans don't have dash cams.

We're far too paranoid about them being used against us for running red lights and speeding all the time while eating egg mcmuffins. 

The cows!

It's considered a HUGE FUCKING DEAL to mandate police record interrogations. Only a handful of states require it.

Also here anything is fungible anyway. You can have dashcam of like 10 officers beating an unconscious perp who was ejected from his car nearly to death and not a fucking thing will happen.

I was thinking more for their entertainment value, not legal value.  Because those videos are some funny shit.

Took me forever to figure out which site to allow javascript on in order to watch that.

Completely untrue. He would at least get a littering ticket for leaving broken windshield glass and blood all over the road.

I just love watching shit like this.

(http://i.imgur.com/lqBS61d.gif)

As has been said before, Russia is just real life GTA.

And yet in all those videos so far, not one person pulled a gun and shot the place up. Hatchets, bats, fists, tire irons...cows. Go figure.

I've decided I don't need guns anymore. I'm just going to bring a Russian with me from now on. :why_so_serious:

Bringing a Russian to a gun fight ? What could go wrong ?

Wasn't sure if this was the right thread: Apparently we're enjoying another near miss today. 'City block' size asteroid (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/watch-live-asteroid-2013et/?cid=co6290724) comin' to gitcha. Well, ok, about 1mm miles out. But if the Earth was just about 23 hours slower...

This one is 64 to 140 meters wide. For reference, the Russia one was 15m.

I went to Neil Degrasse Tyson's lecture at Wright State on Thursday and he mentioned today's "Near Miss."    He mentioned it because; (paraphrased) - I'm sick of asteroid talk right now and I told CBS to call me when there's an object closer than 3 moons away.   :grin:

Of course, then he went on to tell us all about Apethosis, or Asteroid 2004 MN4 (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/13may_2004mn4/).  320m wide and passing within 30,000km (18.6k mi) of Earth on Friday the 13th, 2029.  (Geosync satellites are at 26k mi/ 36k km.)

Welcome to your next doomsday cult.

I thought I just heard that Apethosis was now projected to be much further away than that. (On the most recent TED Radio Hour podcast).

I've yet to see mention from Astronomers about the possibility we could be going through a particularly dense cloud of material, given how much debris has fallen as of late.  Gravity is a bitch, and typically it's a slippery slope (rocks like to clump in similar orbits).  My money is on that we're going to see more of these refrigerator to car sized objects before seeing less as we cant adequately track these medium  to small-sized rocks until they're too close.  Point in case this latest one that only had 1 week lead time.

If it was then nothing had been updated about it yet on NASA's site, where I pulled the information from.

Really, it's going to be a miss and a near miss in 2029 in any event.  The real bitch is the question of what Earth's gravity will do to its orbit after the pass.  The same problem that was left out of the discussions with the near miss a few weeks ago.


We have hits all the time.  The thing is, we occupy a very small portion of the planet % wise so we don't hear about them and they're all pretty small or burn-up in orbit.  The most current hit was estimated to be 10k tons and 55 feet across and it still exploded without significant mass impact.  Refrigerator-sized rocks aren't a problem.   

Even if they do impact, I still wouldn't worry.  People are asking, "Why were Tunguska and the most current meteorite both in Siberia?! Aliens!" The answer is  nope, big fucking landmass.   When 70% of the surface is water and then the bulk of the land is Siberia and China or uninhabited, your biggest concern is the eco-killers we can't to anything about at the moment.   However, since we're not interested in a Space program without some international competition, our only option there is to die.

Over what timespan are you generalizing?

Just feels like lately there's a darned rock fallin (or about to fall) out of the sky every other day.  I attribute a lot of that to the simple reason we're paying a lot more attention to neos though.

I'm not paying more attention to them. :why_so_serious:

You mean the recent several months, then?

There was no rain until we crawled out of the soup.

There are always rocks falling.  Lightning strikes 40 times every second, we just don't notice it because Earth is that friggin' big.

The chances of Apophis impacting in 2036 were ruled out a couple of months ago (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/01/10/apophis_impact_new_observation_show_it_to_be_bigger_but_no_longer_a_threat.html).

Then how are we going to recruit Teal'c and overthrow the Goa'uld?

 :roflcopter: