Meteorite crash in Russia

[Boogaloo]

A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteor shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and cellphones stopped working.
Atmospheric phenomena have been registered in the cities of Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen.

In Chelyabinsk, witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it resembled an earthquake and thunder at the same time, and that there were huge trails of smoke across the sky. Others reported seeing burning objects fall to earth.
http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-u...elyabinsk-283/


Here's one of the comments
Hi. I am from Chelyabinsk. I saw the meteor show with my own eyes. There are smashed windows all over the city. One of the manufactory buildings of the Zinc Plant is destroyed. Its roof and half of the building is just gone.


Wow.. I thought the asteroid was coming tomorrow. Why wait?
Boo

[Easyrider]

Off a few thousand miles and a few hours...who's counting?

[Boogaloo]

Here's a video of it incoming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE

Boo

[packyderms_wife]

Interesting I was outside about 15 minutes ago with the dog and thought some of the stars looked funny specically the ones in Orions Belt, it's a crisp clear night here tonight the stars are very bright.

K-

[burrito]

Amazing video catching the smoke trail and shockwave with explosions in the distance along with breaking windows from the sonic boom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwzYn...layer_embedded

Dang!!!! That would freak me out. Sounds like the booms at the end might be transformers blowing.

[Hungry Seagull]

Here's a video of it incoming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE

Boo

Textbook.

[packyderms_wife]

Here's a video of it incoming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE

Boo

excellent video footage!

[Hungry Seagull]

Here is the article to go with it.

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-u...elyabinsk-283/

The write ups are very fast tonight on these events.

I was thinking one little rock, now I suspect several rocks.

[Sleeping Cobra1]

So it did hit after all.

Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. Image credit:

NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.

The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.

At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 11:25 a.m. PST (2:25 p.m. EST / 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth's surface.

The commentary will be available via NASA TV and streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid's flyby before and after closest approach, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about 9 a.m. PST (noon EST) and continuing through the afternoon at the following website: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 6 p.m. PST (8 p.m. CST / 9 p.m. EST). To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

The NASA Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington manages and funds the search, study and monitoring of NEOs, or asteroids and comets, whose orbits periodically bring them close to the Earth. NASA's study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system. The objects also are a repository of natural resources and could become waystations for future exploration. In collaboration with other external organizations, one of the program's key goals is to search and hopefully mitigate potential NEO impacts on Earth. JPL conducts the NEO program's technical and scientific activities.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/as...201315144.html

[Homesteader]

Here's a video of it incoming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE

Boo

Great video.


I have to admit -- I am too paranoid. If I saw something like that, I'd head home and hunker down for a while.