INCOMING!: метеорита в Челябинске, Russian Meteor - February 2013 |
INCOMING!: метеорита в Челябинске, Russian Meteor - February 2013 |
Feb 15 2013, 07:01 AM
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Looks like a small meteoroid decided to spoil 2012 DA14's big day by exploding over Russia...
http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1 -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Feb 15 2013, 01:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
The best of the videos I've seen show the contrail ending well above the ground, suggesting that the impactor disintegrated in the air. I'm wondering whether the bolide actually hit the ground, or whether the damage was caused by an over-pressure wave pushed ahead of it.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 15 2013, 03:56 PM
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The best of the videos I've seen show the contrail ending well above the ground, suggesting that the impactor disintegrated in the air. I'm wondering whether the bolide actually hit the ground, or whether the damage was caused by an over-pressure wave pushed ahead of it. -the other Doug Several pieces did hit the ground, images of that factory shown above is only one that might have been a smaller piece. A somewhat larger impacted near a highway. And one piece thought to have been larger is said to have ended up in a lake quite far from the city according to my teletext news here. @dilo: Hard to say, my teletext feed states that there initially were one alert for one possible nuclear strike, but it reads as that alert came after the actual impact so I guess the Italians have elaborated on that fact a bit. @nprev: The teletext say about 900 wounded, mostly from shattered glass, and a number (no numbers given) hospitalized. But still no mention of any casualties so lets hope there were none. |
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