Meteorite crash in Russia
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#2If this isn't some hoax, this is pretty wild. I'm not sure, but the general volume of news about this seems to point to it being real.
There's more information on this page here: http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2013/02/14/what-is-...
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#3It takes events like this to highlight how awesome it is to have a large number of people constantly recording video. Integrated dashcams with a circular buffer should become ubiquitous standard equipment IMO.
1080p of first clip available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE
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#4(crossposting from the earliest HN submission)
Now that's quite a sight. Here's a blog with more videos and pictures:
http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2013/02/14/what-is-...
I don't know about the accuracy of this news report, but take a look:
http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/
And this from the Bad Astronomy blog on Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/11/asteroid...
On Friday, Feb. 15, the Earth is going to get a very close shave by an asteroid. Called 2012 DA14, this 50 meter (160 foot) rock will pass just over 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) from the Earth’s surface. This is closer than our geosynchronous satellites, so this really is a close pass!
But, to be very clear: This asteroid poses no threat to us right now, nor in the foreseeable future. Friday’s miss is just that: a miss. And, in fact, this is a good thing, since any time an asteroid gets close (but misses), we learn a lot, including how to find them, how to track them, and even how to talk about them to the public.
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#5I can't help but notice this is only a few positions above the large hadron collider shutting down story. Correlation?
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#6Nowhere on the linked page is there any reference to a 6.9 quake. There wasn't an earthquake of any kind, although, "Witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it resembled an earthquake and thunder at the same time..."
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to believe anyway. Wasn't the rule that RT is considered accurate on any stories not involving Russia?
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#7I suspect the meteorite and earthquake are not related. The only recent earthquake that fits your description was M6.6 at 67.580°N 142.593°E [1], that's about ~2630 miles away from the reported meteorite impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia [2].
[1] http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000f76f#...
[2] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_METEORITE?S...
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#8Nowhere on the linked page is there any reference to a 6.9 quake. There wasn't an earthquake of any kind, although, "Witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it resembled an earthquake and thunder at the same time..." I'm not sure what I'm supposed to believe anyway. Wasn't the rule that RT is considered accurate on any stories not involving Russia?
Yeah, 6.9 is not mentioned in the story and USGS does not show any recorded event there. Russian media was saying nothing hit the ground -- there was just an explosion in air which is seen in the video. I'm sure something hit the ground, though.
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#9It is believed that the incident may be connected to asteroid 2012 DA14, which measures 45 to 95 meters in diameter and will be passing by Earth tonight at around 19:25 GMT at the record close range of 27,000 kilometers.
apparently there was a risk that asteroid would intercept a satellite orbit. Too early to say, but it seems more likely than mere coincidence.
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#10It takes events like this to highlight how awesome it is to have a large number of people constantly recording video. Integrated dashcams with a circular buffer should become ubiquitous standard equipment IMO. 1080p of first clip available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE
Does everyone in Russia have a dashcam or something? It seems like every other video I see on YouTube was recorded on one, and yet I don't know of anyone in Japan or the US with one installed (parking cams don't count). It's a great idea– I would probably get one if I still had a car, but it's amazing to me just how prevalent they seem in Russia. (Elsewhere too? I don't know. I'd love it if someone could enlighten me.)