Meteorite injure 1000 peoples in Russia

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Pretty unspectacular for a supposed 500 kiloton yield (I guess it burst too high up to affect the ground much).

Twenty Five miles distance. And damned luck it was that much. If it had been another Tonguska there would be nothing left of Cherybalinsk.

ruveyn

I'm surprised there isn't a herd of Russians trying to recover fragments (like the one in the frozen lake) for money. I know firsthand how much some of these can fetch.

I was talking to someone from cheblanski they said it was a deafening boom and a blinding flash.

I don't know about everyone else, but I love this. It proves that despite our research and science, massive unpredictable stuff can still happen. Glad no one's dead, but this could happen again at any moment.

Small pieces are already being put up for sale.

We hope, but this is the kind of event that can happen at any time; there really is no method of determining when. It could happen again as early as within the next ten minutes. An expert on this matter was interviewed shortly after the event on local T.V., and he said, amongst other things, that this example would have been a stony meteor, rather than a nickel-iron one, due to the fact that it disintegrated high in the atmosphere, whereas a nickel-iron meteor would have disintegrated on impact with the ground, leaving a large crater and devastating the city of Chelyabinsk.
The search for the remains of this meteor has, thus far, yielded nothing, which was the same result of the search for the cause of the 1908 Tunguska explosion - no meteorite, and no impact crater. This, and the eyewitness accounts of the event, lend credence to the notion that the 1908 event was also an airburst, and therefore also caused by a stony object.

We need to colonise our solar system, otherwise an event like this happening again will have the potential to wipe us out completely. The next time a flat-earther complains about the money being 'wasted' on space exploration, this simple fact should be pointed out to them, and then maybe they will wake up to reality.

If we can discover an object on a collision course early enough it is possible to alter it's path. You only need to speed it up or slow it down by a slight amount. If a specific asteroid was determined to be a threat to global civilization there wouldn't be much trouble securing international funding. The most important thing is discovering the asteroid in time.

Actually, I take back my "pretty unspectacular" words. The burst was pretty damn big considering how far up it was (the one dashboard camera that picks it up offers an awesome view of it vaporizing).

People who actually witnessed it while standing outdoors say the dashboard cameras don't even do it justice. It was blindingly bright and you could feel the heat of it on your skin. The radiant energy it put out was much hotter than the sun itself for a brief moment.