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Friday, February 15, 2013

Science Here's More Footage of the Russian Meteor Strike

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:43 AM

I don't know how anybody is doing anything other than watching footage of the meteors that crashed into Russia. Here, have a YouTube spree:

(To be clear, the screenshot of the crater on the below video directly below this sentence has nothing to do with the video strike. It's a shameless attempt to score extra views, which is insane because it's already a video of A METEOR STRIKE. How many extra views do you need?)

And here's the Al Jazeera report on the strike:

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also, GUYS, it's generally referred to as a "vapor trail" since whatever type of ice the meteor likely contained sublimated in the atmosphere. and the larger meteor that buzzed us hasn't been tracked for years; it was only discovered last year. hence the name "2012 DA14". #knowitall

Posted by lordbison

on February 17, 2013 at 9:31 AM

Paul, have you watched this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mLUIDGq…

Posted by lordbison

on February 17, 2013 at 9:05 AM

WTF does Al Jazeera mean by "turned the day into night"? That makes no sense.

Posted by rmisaac on February 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM

@10: Gee whiz, giving NASA an entire cent of my yearly taxes would put an awful strain on my budget... Better to give that half-penny to the military instead, or to further tax giveaways for corporations. They're clearly in more dire need. NASA already has enough money, right?

(I assume you're being facetious, but I'd like to take the opportunity to make the point.)

Posted by Knat on February 15, 2013 at 2:36 PM

@9 - If (and that's a BIG "if") a watching device (satellite, Earth-based telescope etc.) was looking in just the right spot at the just the right time it *might* be able to detect a 10 meter wide asteroidal object a day in advance, perhaps two. Twice that size buys you a couple of weeks, and 10 times that size buys you a couple of years (as evidenced by today's asteroid fly-by which has been tracked for years). 10 meters of bolide can cause significant damage to the area of impact, but today's technology doesn't give us much warning. Sleep well tonight. It could happen any time...

Posted by sperifera on February 15, 2013 at 1:34 PM

I'm waiting for the inevitable "Chelyabinsk Truth Movement" by crackpots who don't understand science and think it was a missile or some bullshit.

Posted by JenV on February 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM

@9 We can't afford it. NASA costs tax payer dollars.

Posted by Former Lurker on February 15, 2013 at 1:15 PM

Um, aren't there satellites or someone watching so we have warning as to when AN ASTEROID MIGHT HIT THE EARTH?
& then blow it up before it actually does? Or is that just in the movies? Was there any warning?

Posted by gunmmoontree on February 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM

Note to self: Big Bright Flash? Step away from the glass, duck and cover.

Posted by Fire Chief on February 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM

@5 No, that's the meteor trail. The large "boom" (and subsequent smaller ones) are the shock waves produced by the meteor as it passed through our atmosphere at several times the speed of sound. Just like you see lighting before you hear it, the smoke trail from the meteor burning up was visible well before the the sound it produced reached the earth.

Posted by Henry on February 15, 2013 at 12:51 PM

Have the meteor-deniers and meteor-truthers come out yet?

Posted by Former Lurker on February 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM

People weren't filming the smoke trail left by the meteor, they were filming a really strange looking con-trail in the sky before the meteor struck . Chem trail, perhaps?

Posted by veo_ on February 15, 2013 at 12:09 PM

Had this happened about 30 years ago, there might have been nuclear war...

Posted by Former Lurker on February 15, 2013 at 11:28 AM

With cameras becoming ubiquitous in our lifetimes, we've witnessed so very much of the dynamic nature of Earth and it's place in the universe. It truly is amazing to see and to know this has happened countless times over vast eons.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on February 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM