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INCOMING!: метеорита в Челябинске, Russian Meteor - February 2013
volcanopele
post 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


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post Feb 15 2013, 07:07 PM
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FYI, NASA TV is running live coverage of the closest approach of DA14 2012 from JPL, with some live feeds from telescopes in Australia, where the asteroid is currently traversing the sky.

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- volcanopele   INCOMING!: метеорита в Челябинске   Feb 15 2013, 07:01 AM
- - Explorer1   Depends on one's definition of 'small...   Feb 15 2013, 07:18 AM
- - Fran Ontanaya   Some info: http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-ura...   Feb 15 2013, 08:16 AM
- - nprev   Clearly a major event. I hope that the reported in...   Feb 15 2013, 08:27 AM
|- - Explorer1   Direct hit on factory? http://www.youtube.com/watc...   Feb 15 2013, 08:43 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Feb 15 2013, 12:43 AM)...   Feb 15 2013, 11:50 AM
|- - dilo   An hour ago, Italian television told about russain...   Feb 15 2013, 01:26 PM
- - machi   Chelyabinsk's bolid from Meteosat.   Feb 15 2013, 11:15 AM
- - belleraphon1   WOW!... Hope injuries not serious. Analysi...   Feb 15 2013, 01:01 PM
- - dvandorn   The best of the videos I've seen show the cont...   Feb 15 2013, 01:10 PM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 15 2013, 02:10 PM) ...   Feb 15 2013, 03:56 PM
- - machi   Dilo, today's SAMs cannot hit and destroy such...   Feb 15 2013, 03:33 PM
|- - dilo   Yes, machi, I know and I said I was skeptical...   Feb 15 2013, 03:46 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The story about intercepting the meteorite is almo...   Feb 15 2013, 04:05 PM
- - Mongo   I am trying to get an estimate of the size of the ...   Feb 15 2013, 04:08 PM
- - jasedm   Wow!! That's amazing. Inevitable comp...   Feb 15 2013, 04:34 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   With all those videos there's no doubt an exac...   Feb 15 2013, 06:22 PM
- - Gladstoner   .   Feb 15 2013, 06:45 PM
- - dvandorn   I can certainly see how there was a pretty big exp...   Feb 15 2013, 06:51 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 15 2013, 07:51 PM) ...   Feb 15 2013, 07:39 PM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 15 2013, 08:39 PM) N...   Feb 15 2013, 07:57 PM
- - Gladstoner   .   Feb 15 2013, 07:00 PM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (Gladstoner @ Feb 15 2013, 08:00 PM...   Feb 15 2013, 07:11 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (Mongo @ Feb 15 2013, 08:11 PM) The...   Feb 15 2013, 07:59 PM
||- - ugordan   This just in, via NASASpaceflight.com: a full leng...   Feb 15 2013, 08:09 PM
||- - walfy   It's amazing how today's trail resembles f...   Feb 16 2013, 06:20 AM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (Gladstoner @ Feb 15 2013, 08:00 PM...   Feb 15 2013, 07:16 PM
- - dvandorn   FYI, NASA TV is running live coverage of the close...   Feb 15 2013, 07:07 PM
- - dvandorn   Oh, cool -- the JPL visualizations manager is show...   Feb 15 2013, 07:14 PM
- - Mongo   QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 15 2013, 09:09 PM) T...   Feb 15 2013, 08:21 PM
- - Bill Harris   It will be interesting to see what the "yield...   Feb 15 2013, 08:57 PM
- - Explorer1   At 19 seconds in TheAnt's video (post 311), is...   Feb 15 2013, 09:01 PM
- - helvick   Why are we assuming that 1kPa is the level that wo...   Feb 15 2013, 10:31 PM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (helvick @ Feb 15 2013, 11:31 PM) W...   Feb 15 2013, 10:58 PM
- - machi   Mongo: I don't know how it's today, but in...   Feb 15 2013, 11:28 PM
- - Gladstoner   .   Feb 15 2013, 11:34 PM
- - Mongo   Russian meteor largest in a century -- Nature QUO...   Feb 15 2013, 11:47 PM
- - machi   Needless to say, it's still one heck of an exp...   Feb 16 2013, 12:19 AM
- - 0101Morpheus   Needless to say the little unexpected meteor that ...   Feb 16 2013, 01:09 AM
|- - PaulH51   Meanwhile during Sol 187 in the sky above Gale Cra...   Feb 16 2013, 02:03 AM
- - nprev   Who knows? The Tunguska impactor left nary a trace...   Feb 16 2013, 02:39 AM
- - dvandorn   I've been finger-licking the various videos, a...   Feb 16 2013, 02:54 AM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE I don't know how it's today, but in ...   Feb 16 2013, 03:14 AM
- - Mongo   NASA has revised upwards the size of the impactor ...   Feb 16 2013, 04:06 AM
- - Bill Harris   Another measure of the energy imparted by this eve...   Feb 16 2013, 06:52 AM
|- - walfy   According to this source, the main trail, or train...   Feb 16 2013, 08:26 AM
- - xflare   If it exploded/disintegrated that high above the g...   Feb 16 2013, 09:30 AM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (xflare @ Feb 16 2013, 09:30 AM) If...   Feb 16 2013, 01:33 PM
- - jgoldader   Any news yet on the type of the impactor? I saw a...   Feb 16 2013, 01:33 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   This is a good graphic for those of you who do out...   Feb 16 2013, 04:43 PM
- - Mongo   Interesting graphic, although the impactor is show...   Feb 16 2013, 05:04 PM
- - Paolo   back to the other asteroid star of the week, has a...   Feb 16 2013, 05:47 PM
- - djellison   As you can see - they're planning to observe i...   Feb 16 2013, 07:12 PM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 16 2013, 08:12 PM)...   Feb 17 2013, 09:42 AM
- - Gladstoner   .   Feb 16 2013, 09:47 PM
- - nprev   That's a good one! Been trying to figure ...   Feb 16 2013, 09:51 PM
- - Gladstoner   .   Feb 16 2013, 10:01 PM
|- - helvick   Thunder rumbles aren't generally echoes, just ...   Feb 16 2013, 11:03 PM
|- - Gladstoner   .   Feb 16 2013, 11:38 PM
- - dvandorn   I think the first loud report may have been from t...   Feb 16 2013, 10:36 PM
- - Mongo   All the videos I have seen that continue past the ...   Feb 16 2013, 10:57 PM
- - Eyesonmars   I found it interesting that a number of witnesses ...   Feb 17 2013, 01:28 AM
- - nprev   Do you have any references for the heat perception...   Feb 17 2013, 03:22 AM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (nprev @ Feb 17 2013, 04:22 AM) Do ...   Feb 17 2013, 03:44 AM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (Helvick)Thunder rumbles aren't generall...   Feb 17 2013, 03:25 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Feb 17 2013, 04:25 A...   Feb 17 2013, 12:29 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 17 2013, 06:29 AM) ....   Feb 17 2013, 02:48 PM
- - tasp   I noticed in the different clips shown the degree ...   Feb 17 2013, 03:27 AM
- - Bill Harris   Do we have any scale information on the cameras us...   Feb 17 2013, 06:04 AM
|- - walfy   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Feb 16 2013, 10:04 P...   Feb 17 2013, 07:45 AM
|- - walfy   ONe more thought for the night: it would be a gre...   Feb 17 2013, 07:52 AM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (walfy @ Feb 17 2013, 07:45 AM) For...   Feb 17 2013, 01:58 PM
- - FordPrefect   Some interesting photos on this photographers blog...   Feb 17 2013, 09:41 AM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (FordPrefect)...it really looks like there a...   Feb 17 2013, 02:51 PM
|- - ugordan   This video shows nicely that incandescence nicely.   Feb 17 2013, 02:57 PM
- - Art Martin   I've seen a number of videos of a flaming crat...   Feb 17 2013, 05:06 PM
- - Mongo   Those videos and images of a flaming crater are re...   Feb 17 2013, 05:10 PM
|- - Art Martin   QUOTE (Mongo @ Feb 17 2013, 10:10 AM) Tho...   Feb 17 2013, 05:27 PM
- - Explorer1   The lake impact is probably authentic, but it migh...   Feb 17 2013, 06:05 PM
- - silylene   Stefan Geens did a nice job computing the trajecto...   Feb 17 2013, 06:26 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (silylene @ Feb 17 2013, 02:26 PM) ...   Feb 17 2013, 08:33 PM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (ArtMartin)I've seen a number of videos ...   Feb 17 2013, 06:54 PM
- - Art Martin   One thing that I've noticed in the cloud the m...   Feb 17 2013, 06:59 PM
|- - ugordan   I have a theory about the twin cloud trail. I...   Feb 17 2013, 07:37 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 17 2013, 07:37 PM) I...   Feb 17 2013, 08:49 PM
- - Mongo   The USGS does report a seismic event that originat...   Feb 17 2013, 08:55 PM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Feb 17 2013, 01:54 P...   Feb 17 2013, 09:50 PM
- - walfy   I don't know if this has been discussed yet, a...   Feb 17 2013, 10:10 PM
- - AndyG   That's the way (and why) nearby lightning stri...   Feb 17 2013, 10:43 PM
- - Bill Harris   I've been doing some reading and the closest ...   Feb 18 2013, 04:24 AM
|- - pandaneko   I have not read all of the previously uploaded con...   Feb 18 2013, 08:46 AM
- - AndyG   Rotation helps for larger asteroids of a rubble-pi...   Feb 18 2013, 10:21 AM
- - remcook   Apparently, fragments have now been found http://e...   Feb 18 2013, 03:04 PM
- - Bill Harris   Yep, "fragments found" and now we're...   Feb 18 2013, 04:20 PM
- - dvandorn   There is likely a rather large "strewn field...   Feb 18 2013, 06:43 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 18 2013, 02:43 PM) ...   Feb 18 2013, 07:50 PM
- - Explorer1   The boundaries and definitions are rather fuzzy; i...   Feb 18 2013, 08:07 PM
- - Pertinax   What kind of confidence is reasonable with the inf...   Feb 18 2013, 09:25 PM
- - Mongo   QUOTE (Pertinax @ Feb 18 2013, 09:25 PM) ...   Feb 18 2013, 10:19 PM
- - ugordan   QUOTE (Pertinax @ Feb 18 2013, 10:25 PM) ...   Feb 18 2013, 11:45 PM
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