# Friday's meteor: what would have happened if it was predicted?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-meteor-what-would-have-happened-if-it-was-predicted/650650>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 18, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-meteor-what-would-have-happened-if-it-was-predicted/650650 "2013-02-18T01:28:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-meteor-what-would-have-happened-if-it-was-predicted/650650/21 "2013-03-26T00:41:27Z")

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My thoughts about the original OP: The Russians would have said nothing to the public and starting working up a scheme to blame the Chechens, and once they knew it didn’t do much damage, take the credit for that by claiming it was diverted some secret ABM weapon. .

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