Meteor Strike

[kentington]

I fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 11 last night just in time to catch this on the news.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/15/meteorite-injures-hundreds-russias-ural-mountains-video-pictures_n_2691949.html

[AAFitz]

Is that the most ever hurt by a meteor?

That guy let out about 100 less fbombs than I would have in the video.

[AndyDufresne]

Have seen / heard the video? http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0 ... eorite/?hp

Yowza (make sure your volume is turned down):




--Andy

[IcePack]

I saw this in the morning, crazy!

[jonesthecurl]

I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

[AndyDufresne]

I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

[IcePack]

I heard a news report saying Russian gov / space branch / whatever it's called knew it was coming but was expected to breakup / burn up upon entry.

Oops?

[AndyDufresne]

It was supposedly an extra dense and hard meteor, and may have been made of iron. I'm sure people will dig around for fragments to determine component analysis.


--Andy

[jonesthecurl]

I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

My mistake - I thought it was the same one. A lazy assumption, but as you say it seems to be a coincidence. Like we're a cosmic coconut shy.
Hey, governments - here's a good reason for a bigger interest in space.

[thegreekdog]

Hey, governments - here's a good reason for a bigger interest in space.

+1. I would gladly pay over tax dollars for more space exploration.

Other interesting tidbits:

I heard on the radio that the meteor was traveling at approximately 19 miles per second. PER SECOND!
Tungstenaka (spelling?) in Russia had a meteor strike that hit with the approximately force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. I need to read more about this when I have some time.
An asteroid passed us by at about 2:45 eastern standard time this afternoon. It was, I think, 17,000 miles away - a very short distance.

[notyou2]

It was supposedly an extra dense and hard meteor, and may have been made of iron. I'm sure people will dig around for fragments to get rich.


--Andy

Fixed it for you Andy.

[notyou2]

This is not the first time for an event like this in Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

[AAFitz]

" The odds of the largest meteor strike in 100 years occurring on the same day as the closest asteroid approach in 15 years are about 1 in 200 million, assuming these events are not correlated--truly a cosmic coincidence! "

weatherchannel.com


Hell, I break 1 in 200 million odds on CC every day.

[nietzsche]

I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

I'd be greatly greatly surprised if this was just a coincidence, there has to be a relation between the two.

[notyou2]

I knew the big rock was doing a flyby, I thought there was no chance of impact - obviously some bits fell off.

Nopers. This meteor came from a northern trajectory, while the asteroid is coming from a southern trajectory, so they were traveling in different directions.

But cosmic coincidences (conspiracies?!) of it all, remind me of just how small our tiny Earth rock is in the vastness of space that is constantly hurling things toward and around us.


--Andy

I'd be greatly greatly surprised if this was just a coincidence, there has to be a relation between the two.

There was but they broke up and went their separate ways.

[Army of GOD]

[2dimes]

Gull durn meteor unions is wat's rekin this kuntree.

[thegreekdog]

This is not the first time for an event like this in Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Yeah, that's the one.

[tzor]

This is not the first time for an event like this in Russia.

True, but I still get annoyed when people suggest that they are the same thing. Tunguska was a not dense object (possibly a comet) that heated up and completely exploded mid air. This one broke apart in mid air but had several fragments crash solidly into the ground. If it hadn't broken up it would have caused major problems had it slammed into the ground as a single solid strike (as all the momentum would have been transmitted into the solid rock around the impact).

I still like the following line the best; "In Soviet Russia, Space explores you!"

[CreepersWiener]

It was supposedly an extra dense and hard meteor, and may have been made of iron. I'm sure people will dig around for fragments to determine component analysis.


--Andy