Meteorite crash in Russia (videos)

Russian blog with tons of stuff:

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1

The traffic cam one is really fucked up. That's in daylight, pointed at a street, but the entire screen turns white as the camera adjusts from the brightness of the explosion. Also: being knocked across a room by a shock wave from a meteor is pretty idm.

Russians are calm as fuck.

lol

wish we had dash cams of the tunguska event

  On 2/15/2013 at 4:49 PM, TwiddleBot said:

Russian blog with tons of stuff:

 

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1

excellent, internet at its best, both in the lols and information.

  On 2/15/2013 at 4:49 PM, TwiddleBot said:

Russian blog with tons of stuff:

 

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1

awesome post. some really great pics and vids here.

  On 2/15/2013 at 4:49 PM, TwiddleBot said:

Russian blog with tons of stuff:

 

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1

Awesome thanks for posting

  Quote

 

A meteor that exploded over Russia this morning was the largest recorded object to strike the Earth in more than a century,

scientists say. Infrasound data collected by a network designed to

watch for nuclear weapons testing suggests that today's blast released hundreds of kilotonnes of energy. That would make it far more powerful than the nuclear weapon tested by North Korea just days ago and the largest rock crashing on the planet since a meteor broke up over Siberia's Tunguska river in 1908.

 

"It was a very, very powerful event," says Margaret Campbell-Brown, an

astronomer at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, who

has studied data from two infrasound stations near the impact site. Her

calculations show that the meteoroid was approximately 15 metres across

when it entered the atmosphere, and put its mass at around 40 tonnes.

"That would make it the biggest object recorded to hit the Earth since

Tunguska," she says.

http://www.nature.com/news/russian-meteor-largest-in-a-century-1.12438

You can watch the other one that is supposed to glide past us.

http://bareket-astro.com/bipage/

semi related: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

nasa's doing a livestream of the da14 asteroid that should be passing by in a couple of minutes (2 pm EST).

  On 2/15/2013 at 12:24 PM, gaarg said:

It looks pretty on the sky. I wonder if the nuclear rocket, that will destroy me in the future, will also look pretty.

Absolutely. If it comes from russia it'll look like this.

(jump at 6:30 to see a really cool one, a Soyuz falling down after having installed a Glonass satellite up thee (russian gps)).

The four blinking spots are the boosters (it's called a Korolev cross). I saw one of these bad boys in august 2007 on the east, going from north to south. My hypothesis is that it was a launched from Plesetsk, northern russia, (a kind of military baikonour), and followed a north-to-south trajectory along the european border. 1) usually civilian rockets follow a east-to-west trajectory (or the other way around can't remember) in order take advantage of the earth rotation. 2) Soyuz and balistic missiles are basically the same technology. 3) It was right in the middle of the war in Georgia. 4) The same things have been spotted in Syria.

My conlusion is that it was a "nuclear showoff", and indeed it was beautiful.

Divers can't find meteorite fragments on the bottom of the lake till this moment. It's been suggested by governing bodies that they burned completely and unlikely to be found, but there is a huge hole in the lake's ice surface. Currently there is no proof it was meteorite as i understood. Very small black pieces of rock found around the hole will be examined.

SNL Weekend Update had a brilliant bit on this.

  On 2/15/2013 at 5:07 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Russians are drunk as fuck.

Imagine how quickly this event could gotten out of hand if it was misinterpreted as an attack 30 years ago during the height of the cold war...