Meteor burned up over Russia today

[Zhukov]

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That's some frightening stuff right there. Hard to believe it's real.

Holy crap, that would be terrifying.

I think if I was driving that car I would have pulled over, dived in a ditch and awaited the end of times.

I read a description of what a extinction event level meteor would do. If you were right under it you'd die from the heat caused by the air being compressed under the meteor. If you were further away you'd just see a mile-high wave of debris coming straight at you, but it would be completely silent because it would be travelling faster than sound.

Obviously this one wasn't that big, but if I were anywhere near ground zero I wouldn't be stopping to make distinctions.

 

[KiKiweaky]

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Is that the one that was supposed to be seen on the 15th of feb? I thought it was supposed to come at 7.30pm gmt0

 

[Snownine]

Man, it would be awesome to see something like that in person. Especially if there were no injuries.

 

[DugMachine]

Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

Let's put it this way, if it hit NYC, there would be no more NYC. But that's the extent of the damage, a large city being wiped out.

 

[blackrave]

Let me guess, it contains green self-replicating radioactive crystals?
Now only question is- GDI or Nod?

captcha: inside out
The Forgotten? Really?

 

[Catfood220]

I'm going to put this here.


And say no more about it.

However, that would have been incredibly cool to see, so long as I didn't get a bit of falling glass stuck in my head. Nothing cool ever happens in England.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Man, it would be awesome to see something like that in person. Especially if there were no injuries.

Actually, there are plenty of people injured, but no deaths, many have minor cuts and bruises from the broken glass, others are a bit worse.

Anyway, it's a miracle no one was killed and the majority of injuries are minor, it landed in a lake away from people, it would have been worse if it landed anywhere in a town.

But a meteor hitting for the first time in hundreds of years, that's impressive.

Hundreds of years? ;>_>

Nobody tell him that this kind of stuff happens WAY more often that that, but usually in remote areas.

 

[Private Custard]

So I have only one question:

How the heck they missed this meteor and we didn't heared something by someone official from the goverment ro something similar?

Because most governments in the world are more interested in petty squabbles and posturing than they are in helping us reach the next level of societal development- the awareness of what goes on in the vacuum around our planet and the ability to affect it.

That and the fact it was probably only about the size of a small car.

Space is a pretty big place!

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I knew it was coming. I was reading just last week that an asteroid was going to enter Earth's atmosphere on February 15th.

Truth be told, I was more worried it would hit one of our billion and a half satellites and have its trajectory changed to crash right into Earth.

 

[trollnystan]

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Is that the one that was supposed to be seen on the 15th of feb? I thought it was supposed to come at 7.30pm gmt0

No this is a totally different one. It also came from the wrong direction to have been apart of the 2012 DA14 asteroid, which has passed us safely by now.

 

[Albino Boo]

Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

Something like 5-7.5 megatons of tnt or roughly 1000 times the Hiroshima bomb. Events on that scale happen roughly once every 1000 years and the last one happen in 1908 in Siberia. So you can breath easy it's not likely to happen again any time soon.

 

[Croaker42]

So yeah... I cast Meteor Swarm.

Russia made its save.

 

[GundamSentinel]

So I have only one question:

How the heck they missed this meteor and we didn't heared something by someone official from the goverment ro something similar?

Because that thing probably wasn't bigger than a bus before it broke up (I don't know exactly, depends on the composition), and there are literally millions of those things flying around. Way too many for any space agency to track. The really big ones are mostly accounted for, but even for most of those, the orbits aren't 100% clear. And that's not even taking comets into account, many of which come from so deep in space we don't even know they exist.

This isn't a rare occurence. We're hit by 100 tons of interplanetary rocks and dust each day, Most of it grains of sand, but maybe a dozen times a year something of this scale comes down. Usually in sparsely inhabited regions (generally over sea), so they don't get on the news very often. The bigger the rock, the rarer it is, so the smaller the chance of getting hit by one. Still, even as recent as 2011 one landed in central Asia that could have wrecked a town if it had landed a couple of hours earlier or later. The Solar system is a shooting gallery, no matter what way you look at it.

Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

Something like 5-7.5 megatons of tnt or roughly 1000 times the Hiroshima bomb. Events on that scale happen roughly once every 1000 years and the last one happen in 1908 in Siberia. So you can breath easy it's not likely to happen again any time soon.

It's not like it's on a countdown. The next one could hit in a 1000 years or in 1 year. Who's to know?

 

[Dryk]

Truth be told, I was more worried it would hit one of our billion and a half satellites and have its trajectory changed to crash right into Earth.

With the speeds it was moving at a satellite would deflect it about as much as a bug deflects a car

 

[Snownine]

Man, it would be awesome to see something like that in person. Especially if there were no injuries.

Actually, there are plenty of people injured, but no deaths, many have minor cuts and bruises from the broken glass, others are a bit worse.

Anyway, it's a miracle no one was killed and the majority of injuries are minor, it landed in a lake away from people, it would have been worse if it landed anywhere in a town.

But a meteor hitting for the first time in hundreds of years, that's impressive.

I know people got hurt, that is why I said it would be awesome to see it if no one got hurt. It also was not hundreds of years, there are observed falls every few decades. Those are just the ones we see, the Earth is bombarded with small meteorites every day. Most are the size of grains of sand or pebbles though.