Meteor in Russia

[AKA-22]

[Steve Dallas]

Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette

Yep, I'm not sure how fast it was going, but it looked to be going fast enough for the sonic boom to be very far behind. Very, very far behind. Crazy videos! We need more live action shots. Surely somebody over there setup a camera for this...

Not a lot of warning for stuff like this...

[irocnroll]

Originally Posted by Steve Dallas

Two videos on this, which just happened. First link has article too.

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-u...elyabinsk-283/

[Brokinarrow]

Originally Posted by irocnroll

Hahahaha, EXACTLY what I was thinking of when I saw that!

[Steve Dallas]

Originally Posted by Brokinarrow

Hahahaha, EXACTLY what I was thinking of when I saw that!

I think that too, however that video was more impressive because of the sonic boom.

I hate VVS though...wish people could learn how to hold the phone correctly for video.

[irocnroll]

Originally Posted by Steve Dallas

I think that too, however that video was more impressive because of the sonic boom.

I hate VVS though...wish people could learn how to hold the phone correctly for video.

Yeah the boom was pretty cool.

[swizlstik]

Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette

I found an article stating it was doing 19 miles per second. That would be approximately mach 92.. That's 68,400 miles per hour. 89 times faster than the speed of sound...

I just heard the same thing! Freakin awesome, although I would no longer have clean pants on. Those sonic booms would have gotten me for sure!

[swizlstik]

Originally Posted by Brokinarrow

Let me stir the conspiracy pot a bit :

Russia's censoring the videos for some reason!


/tin foil hat

Thought the same thing!

[Camaro_Corvette]

Originally Posted by Steve Dallas

Not a lot of warning for stuff like this...

Ah, I didn't realize this was not the one that was expected. The one we are expecting hasn't happened yet That's comforting....

[Gigachip]

stuff like this gets me excited

[Mr Twisty]

A Russian health official says nearly 1,000 people have sought help for injuries after a meteor streaked through the sky and exploded Friday over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb.
The sonic blast from the hurtling space rock shattered countless windows and deeply frightened thousands, with some elderly women declaring the world was coming to an end.
The meteor -- estimated to be about 10 tons -- entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered about 18-32 miles above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement. It released the energy of several kilotons above the Chelyabinsk region, the academy said.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...#ixzz2Kz48l000

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[upflying]

Google Tunguska Explosion, it happened before in Russia... in the same area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

[Brokinarrow]

Originally Posted by upflying

Google Tunguska Explosion, it happened before in Russia... in the same area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

yeah, that one was a lot bigger and thankfully for the Russians, out in the middle of nowhere. If something Tunguska sized had happened here, we wouldn't be seeing videos of it till after they cleaned through the wreckage

[mntgome1]

Apparently this meteor was the size of a Dining room table.......
The Meteor that is suppose to graze Planet Earth @ 17K miles away within 24 hours is the size of a Cruise Ship. Time to pull out the fifth of Hennessy X.O. and grab me a Cohiba XV660.