Meteor hits central Russia, over 500 injured.

[Rafa]

Found out about this about an hour ago....fucking crazy

Goddamn @ the videos. Fucking crazy.


Anyone else notice this happened on the same day John McClane went to Russia for the first time to kick ass? Coincidence?

LMAO

[Sean88gt]

I thought all doors in Russia were concrete reinforced.

[petyweestraw]

Hory sheet. What such a huge delay? Was it moving that fast? Cool

[Rafa]

The meteor -- estimated to be about 10 tons and 49 feet wide -- entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered into pieces about 18-32 miles above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement. But even small asteroids pack a tremendous punch, explained Andrew Cheng of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...#ixzz2Kzniektc

[Forever_frost]

That is incredible. I wonder how many more of these smaller meteorites are going to be popping through due to the bigger one passing close to earth today.


Did some numbers, that is Mach 43.

[spankustang]

Made me rethink the meteor hitting the earth theory that destroyed dinosauers!! CRAZY
And that meteor was only the size of a kitchen table!!

[BlackGT]

Russia's space agency Roscosmos said the meteorite was travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second and that such events were hard to predict. The Interior Ministry said the meteorite explosion had caused a sonic boom.

68,400 mph!!!

[Mysticcobrakilla]

68,400 mph!!!

91coupemike?

[inline 6]

No advanced warning? I though we had people always watching for shit like this? What if a meteor this size had hit in the ocean?

[Darren M]

No advanced warning? I though we had people always watching for shit like this? What if a meteor this size had hit in the ocean?

No one would have known.

[Baba Ganoush]

I bet Vodka sales hit an all time high.

I was blinded by the light!

....revved up like a douche?

We need a few of these in Cali, DC, and NY

Damn skippy. We need two simultaneous strikes just off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, drown all those fucks.

Learn to swim.

[Forever_frost]

We all know that this wouldn't have happened if we had address global warming

[Broncojohnny]

We only track about 1% of objects in the solar system.

On the Russian video the elapsed time between the light and the sound/pressure wave is about six minutes.

Imagine if the other one that just missed was coming down, it is roughly ten times bigger.

[Duncan]

We only track about 1% of objects in the solar system.

On the Russian video the elapsed time between the light and the sound/pressure wave is about six minutes.

Imagine if the other one that just missed was coming down, it is roughly ten times bigger.

That and the smaller ones are much much harder to see. Evidently this was a 'bolide' (an exploding fireball);

Fireball

A fireball is a brighter-than-usual meteor. The International Astronomical Union defines a fireball as "a meteor brighter than any of the planets" (magnitude −4 or greater).[14] The International Meteor Organization (an amateur organization that studies meteors) has a more rigid definition. It defines a fireball as a meteor that would have a magnitude of −3 or brighter if seen at zenith. This definition corrects for the greater distance between an observer and a meteor near the horizon. For example, a meteor of magnitude −1 at 5 degrees above the horizon would be classified as a fireball because if the observer had been directly below the meteor it would have appeared as magnitude −6.[15] For 2011 there are 4589 fireballs records at the American Meteor Society.[16] Fireballs reaching magnitude −14 or brighter are called bolides.[17] The IAU has no official definition of "bolide", and generally considers the term synonymous with "fireball". Astronomers often use "bolide" to identify an exceptionally bright fireball, particularly one that explodes (sometimes called a detonating fireball). It may also be used to mean a fireball which creates audible sounds. In the late twentieth century, bolide has also come to mean any object that hits the Earth and explodes, with no regard to its composition (asteroid or comet).[18] The word bolide comes from the Greek βολίς (bolis) [19] which can mean a missile or to flash. If the magnitude of a bolide reaches −17 or brighter it is known as a superbolide.[17][20]

[Rick Modena]

That first video =

BOOM BITCH!