syd syside Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W90i4nZZAQ&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZgQwf2-MU4 MOSCOW — Russian officials say a meteorite has fallen in the Chelyabinskregion some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow.A spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Vadim Kolesnikov, said the Friday morning fall caused a blast that broke windows.There were no immediate confirmed reports of injuries, but Russian newsagencies cited unnamed sources as saying several people were injured at aschool in a thinly populated part of the region, which is on theeastern edge of the Ural Mountains. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/meteorite-falls-in-russias-chelyabinsk-region-damage-and-casualties-unclear/2013/02/15/7041c0c8-7732-11e2-b102-948929030e64_story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 7:00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 Also football size one will miss us by "15 minutes" sometime today. Kind of fun Nasa video about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 holy crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Neat that the ubiquitous use of dash-cams in Russia allowed to capture this sort of event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 That's not from a meteorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 wooooow...badass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 That's not from a meteorite. I admit, I can't read Russian. http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 holy crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Amazing! I wonder how big this meteroite was? I haven't found info on its size yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 It looks pretty on the sky. I wonder if the nuclear rocket, that will destroy me in the future, will also look pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 i thought that a meteorite would be moving so fast that you would barely see it lingering in the sky. or am i thinking of a comet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I read on some danish newspaper that around 400 people were wounded from glass and stuff breaking because of the loud soundwave. Anyone know if this is true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 2012 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiddleBot Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yeah as for that first one, 21 seconds in is the most epic beat drop of all time. Now that's partying with the solar system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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joshuatxuk Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I read on some danish newspaper that around 400 people were wounded from glass and stuff breaking because of the loud soundwave. Anyone know if this is true? I read 1000 estimated, two seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 ? Also football size one will miss us by "15 minutes" sometime today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I noticed that as well when my girlfriend showed me these. She insisted the video camera had the wrong date. I was all like no it was the end of the world and we're dead now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isaki Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 RT.com says: 15:28 GMT: The Russian Academy of Science now estimates the meteorite had a mass of around 10 tons before it entered Earth’s atmosphere, and began disintegrating at an altitude of between 30 and 50 kilometers. 15:01 GMT: Around 1,000 people have sustained injuries in Chelyabinsk due to the meteorite strike, says the Emergencies Ministry. 159 of them are children. 13:02 GMT: Nearly 3,000 buildings in Chelyabinsk were damaged to varying extents by the meteor shower, including 34 medical facilities and 361 schools and kindergartens, the city administration’s website reported. The total amount of window glass shattered amounts to 100,000 square meters, the site said, citing city administration head Sergey Davydov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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