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Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by zalew »

detst wrote: post #43
mmastrac wrote: post #31

Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…

I don't understand the language but I hear lots of "yeah boy" in these videos. They seem less concerned than I'd imagine myself to be. Edit: haha, thanks for the explanations; that changes my interpretation of their reactions.

yebat (ебать), loosely translated and depending on form, it could mean either 'oh fuck' or an explicit description of a strong impact ;) we slavs have infinite possibilities of cursing.

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by mmastrac »

Gibbon wrote: post #41
mmastrac wrote: post #31

Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…

A bunch of videos around town and some photos of damage etc. http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com/4468083.html Examples of other meteorite strikes in the past: http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com/4468452.html Damaged zinc plant? https://twitter.com/Dokhrimovich/statuses/302269134685757442 Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorit... AP News Story: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_R…

There's a video of two guys driving by the zinc plant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnGvd0dmLI

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by eksith »

jandrewrogers wrote: post #44
eksith wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A meteorite would be hypersonic when first entering the atomsphere and then supersonic the rest of the way until maybe a few hundred meters before impact. Besides that, if it's not a solid iron-nickle meteorite, it may even breakup or explode well above the surface instead of staying intact. It's not quite like taking out a satellite in low Earth orbit in that there's plenty of information on its orbit, trajectory, t…

I don't know about "taking it out" per se but an air defense system designed to hit ballistic missiles in the terminal phase could also hit an inbound meteorite. It is within the performance envelope of those types of systems. That said, against a meteorite it won't do much good since it is an inert mass. It is plausible that the Russians launched an interceptor just to be safe. If it is a meteor, it neither hurts no…

Russians have scientists working on the meteorite problem, but I doubt the military would do a hail Mary launch on this. If anything, they would much rather let it fall intact than risk having it break up and spread damage to a much larger area. But that still assumes they can respond quickly enough or had missiles on standby with weapons that can affect a meteorite (not specifically ballistic reentry capsules, but actual meteorites). There's a worrying thought.

It may be hot enough for infrared seekers, but it's no jet. Jets are fragile by comparison so, unless they had purely kinetic weapons... but that's still speculation at this point. We still don't know what the Russians did or if they did anything at all.

I doubt they even knew this specific meteor would enter the atmosphere. It's already hard enough detecting much bigger rocks in Earth-crossing orbits.

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by jaxb »

Gibbon wrote: post #41
mmastrac wrote: post #31

Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…

A bunch of videos around town and some photos of damage etc. http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com/4468083.html Examples of other meteorite strikes in the past: http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com/4468452.html Damaged zinc plant? https://twitter.com/Dokhrimovich/statuses/302269134685757442 Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorit... AP News Story: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_R…

> damaged zinc plant?

Yes, that's what it says

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by rdl »

thresh wrote: post #46
rdl wrote: post #45

I don't get why everyone seems to be running out of (what appear to be) fairly sturdy concrete buildings and into the street. Sure, a building won't protect you from an incoming meteorite of any size, but being indoors might protect from fragments if an incoming meteor hits something else.

...provided you know it is a meteorite attack. Apparently, no one did.

Even more so if it's incoming explosives, which by their nature generate a lot of fragments (more than solid impacts). Generally, if I hear explosions, running out into the street is the last thing I want to do...

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by InclinedPlane »

tectonic wrote: post #21

The explosion is clearly audible 25 seconds in to this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA

I'm almost certain that's a sonic boom. The upper atmosphere is several miles high and it would take the better part of a minute for the sound from a sonic boom to reach the ground from the stratosphere.

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by DeepDuh »

mmastrac wrote: post #31

Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…

This one is much better, it actually shows the incoming meteor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wUqmS35REY

Re: Meteorite crash in Russia

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Post by instakill »

detst wrote: post #43
mmastrac wrote: post #31

Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…

I don't understand the language but I hear lots of "yeah boy" in these videos. They seem less concerned than I'd imagine myself to be. Edit: haha, thanks for the explanations; that changes my interpretation of their reactions.

haha, no it basically means fuck in Russian.
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