Link. Some pretty impressive imagery in the video clip.
HOLY CRAP!!! No one is safe!!! :eek:
Slightly more than 100 years years after the Tunguska event. Did those things crater? The first footage looks like a ground impact. It must have scared the hell out of those inside the car (Thinking of the scene from "Monsters vs. Aliens.)
So the North Korean missile test finally ended, eh?
Or maybe the Russians should check for large cylinders where the meteorites landed.
And yes, it’s possible they are related; the meteors could be fragments of the asteroid still loosely associated with it.
Russia Today is claiming that it was “shot down by Russian air defense.” :rolleyes:
Yeah, I was just looking at this YouTube video of the event, and it has that claim as the top caption.
Phil Plait has posted about this over at Slate.
Maybe I want there to be more so that is skewing my view of this, but I feel like there is more to this than we know or perhaps will ever know. Anything that happens in Russia, rather it be a video of a cat sleeping or the enrichment of uranium, piques my interest.
Damn, the Slate post has several videos. Damn, I don’t speak Russian but I can imagine that some of the commentary is pretty invective filled!
Here’s another video from a car which is good quality: - YouTube
I love the way the Meteorite appears out of the sky. I think I would’ve been scared for a few seconds when I first saw that - especially with news in the back of my mind about the near miss-astroid.
Is there any chance that this could be a broken off piece of that astroid or that this meteorite and the astroid are part of a collection of debris from a common object?
An astronomer on the radio this morning said that he thought it was unlikely for this impact to be related to DA14, the timing is just a coincidence. We’ll know more once they’ve managed to determine the meteor’s trajectory.
The Phil Plait/Bad Astronomy article talks about that.
The “Yobat’!” heard several times is the so-called “F-word.” 
Here’s a other video from interior video cameras of windows and doors being blown off. Pretty incredible actually:
We’re really just hanging on to this precarious rock hurtling through (not so empty) space. Why does Russia seem to get so many meteors? First Tunguska, now this? Is the Northern Hemisphere more likely to get hit?
i’m a bit surprised that everyone says this is unrelated to the pass-by of 2012 DA14. Within 24 hours of an extremely close pass of a meteoroid another enters the atmosphere, and it’s not likely to be related?
Certainly asteroids travel in “packs”, the detritus associated with a comet, and retrurn every year appearing to originate from the same region of the sky ("Hence, for instance “Perseids”, which appear to radiate fromk the constellation Perseus). It’s not inconceivable that, even if 2012 DA14 is not associated with a known comet, it’s still a remnant from some long-gone comet, and has nearby buddies sharing an elliptical path. Even if not associated with a comet, if a slightly larger asteroid fractured because of impacts, or unequal heating, or whatever, you’d expect the pieces to remain relatively close together in similar orbits, pulled apart only slightly by differential gravitational effects and the like. It seems to me much more likely that these two asteroid/meteoroids are associated in some way.
I point out that the Tunguska meteorite, to which this is inevitably compared, was followed five hours later by the fall of another, much smaller meteor in Russia. Most accounts of the Tunguska don’t mention this. The Tunguska, by the way, was associated with the Pons-Winnecke comet.
Lastly, just an odd note, which can definitely have no connection, save in the minds of those who see woo-woo synchronicities, but Chelyabinsk, near where this fell, was the site of a large nuclear waste dump in Russia,which had a major release of radioactivity due to a small-scale explosion in 1957, and two subsequent events. It’s been called “the most polluted place on earth” (arguably hyperbole, but I belie ve it released miore radioactrivity than the nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl).
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