Meteorite injure 1000 peoples in Russia

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15 Feb 2013, 1:04 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html
They been injured by the sonic boom. I guess such a thing had to happen one day...

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15 Feb 2013, 1:14 pm

Why do meteorites go to Russia? It has been hit twice that we know of.

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15 Feb 2013, 1:32 pm

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Why do meteorites go to Russia? It has been hit twice that we know of.

Yes, the Tunguska event around 100 years ago caused widespread devastation of a forested area. Maybe because meteorites are largely composed of nickel iron they are attracted to the iron curtain?

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15 Feb 2013, 2:23 pm

I saw a very small one once over Birmingham, Alabama. It looked like a flare from a flare gun. "Stars fell on Alabama"--literally. A woman was injured when one came through her roof.

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15 Feb 2013, 3:23 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvnrGzo8ljI

Listen to the sound it made over a minute later! The main explosion occurred at an altitude of 25 miles.

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15 Feb 2013, 3:48 pm

I saw one at night over Ohio that looked like a green flare coming down. I guess it burned up.

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15 Feb 2013, 3:58 pm

VIDEODROME wrote:

I saw one at night over Ohio that looked like a green flare coming down. I guess it burned up.

I once saw one big enough to see as a contrail during the day. It was way too bright and moving too fast to be a plane. It definitely didn't cause any sound though.

If I saw that one in Russia I would have thought the world was about to end. The fireball looks absolutely massive even though they say the meteor itself was only a few meters in diameter (the size of a large vehicle) before breaking up.

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15 Feb 2013, 4:17 pm

marshall wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvnrGzo8ljI

Listen to the sound it made over a minute later! The main explosion occurred at an altitude of 25 miles.

Borge moi! Holy Shitski!

The Tonguska Express has entered the station.

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15 Feb 2013, 4:57 pm

Outer space is full of scary and unpredictable stuff, how much longer before we all get killed?

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16 Feb 2013, 12:29 pm

Thank G-d this isn't still the Cold War or Russia would really be up in our ass.

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16 Feb 2013, 1:26 pm

There are some nutters who claim that Mr. Obama was testing a new super-weapon that would not leave radioactive fallout, while still having the devastating effects of a nuclear bomb.

I think Mr. Obama should play this up a bit.

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16 Feb 2013, 1:39 pm

lotuspuppy wrote:

Why do meteorites go to Russia? It has been hit twice that we know of.

Because Russia is a mother freaking big country!

Its a big and easy target to hit!

Seventy percent of meteors land in the ocean ( or you would assume because that what covers 70 percent of the earths surface) so you neve hear about them.

Of the 54 million square miles of dry land on earth - about one sixth was once part of the old Soviet Union- and about one seventh is in the modern Russian Republic. The USA, without Alaska, only covers about five percent of the dry land on earth.

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16 Feb 2013, 1:44 pm

VonAaron wrote:

Thank G-d this isn't still the Cold War or Russia would really be up in our ass.

Well- yeah- like in the 99 Red Balloons song- they might retaliated first and ask questions later- if this had happened back in those hair-trigger days of the Fifties through the Eighties!

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16 Feb 2013, 2:34 pm

If the metor hit the ground without breaking up, then Moscow would be a part of a crater.

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16 Feb 2013, 3:15 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:

Outer space is full of scary and unpredictable stuff, how much longer before we all get killed?

A few million years.

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16 Feb 2013, 6:44 pm

If I was there, I would have thought the world was ending.

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