Meteor striker over Russia

[jmorgan]

Bang

Puter being silly this morning, not getting a proper link. Not been paying attention to the near miss this morning, part of the same?

[Manicminer]

I thought the near miss was going to be tonight GMT approx 7pm. As it's a near miss I'd hope it won't be showing us with lumps of rock!

Not related is my thoughts.

[Pints]

Interesting coincidence if unrelated.

[Davie_GLA]

This is apparently the footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd...

Unsure of authenticity at this stage though.

[jmorgan]

Manicminer said:

I thought the near miss was going to be tonight GMT approx 7pm.

There you go, me not paying attention. 7pm eh?

Saw a green streak the other night, problem was it was hard to tell how far away it was, certainly appeared to make the ground and think I could pin point it to a several square miles...... ye olde dark and location issue though.

Something like this sort of leaves you with no doubt I suppose. There are bigger things out there we miss.

[Munter]

I'd have thought that it was caused by Le big rock, interacting with "dormant" small rocks stuck in orbit around and about the place, and causing them to scatter, some of which then appear to have come our direction.

[RegMolehusband]

I might have to wear my crash helmet over the weekend!

[jmorgan]

Le Big Rock.... Jupiter it now seems is the culprit. And its mates, Neptune, Saturn and the school boy favourite.

Ones that are confirmed to date

At least the ones that have left a hole. Lot of water on this planet.

[RegMolehusband]

Seriously though.......I wonder if there might be a good meteor shower in its wake?

[jmorgan]

Depends what it is I would have thought. Would be good though. The meteor showers we get every year are just the bits left in its wake but not sure about these close ones. They do have different make up and can get pulled apart by larger bodies so back to what they are made of I suppose?

[RegMolehusband]

Some great YouTube videos emerging.

Listen to the sonic boom arrive long after the meteorite has burnt up! http://youtu.be/Np_mpGYSBSA


Even more scary! http://youtu.be/b0cRHsApzt8


It was VERY bright http://youtu.be/bXifSi2K278

Edited by RegMolehusband on Friday 15th February 10:10

[L100NYY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...

[scubadude]

RegMolehusband said:

Even more scary! http://youtu.be/b0cRHsApzt8

Should have put a "turn down large mains powered PC speakers" warning on that, I think the cat just shat itself :-)

I guess whats scary is that was a small airburst only impact (I guess), the mind boggles what a Big fast metal meteor might look and sound like.

Hope no one was seriously hurt, pics of the collapsed factory wall online suggest right under the bang there is a fair amount of damage.

[Gwagon111]

It is believed (by some) that something similar may have happened before. It could have been worse .

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

[anonymous-user]

Those videos also demonstrate just how hard it is to fully resolve the altitude, distance, speed and heading of objects in our atmosphere. Some of the angles make it look like it's coming directly towards the viewer and low altitude, whereas in others it is clear it is both massively high and moving incredibly quickly. Lets face it, if you can't work it out for a meteorite, which we KNOW has entered our atmosphere from space, what chance has the average UFO sighting got of a credible identification of height/speed/size??

[Eric Mc]

Gwagon111 said:

It is believed (by some) that something similar may have happened before. It could have been worse .

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

What's belief" got to do with it.

A meteor most definitely exploded in the sky over Tunguska in 1908. There is no dispute about it.

[jmorgan]

Gwagon111 said:

It is believed (by some) that something similar may have happened before. It could have been worse .

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

I posted this up earlier.
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Worldmap....

Sorted by age
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Agesort.h...

If you follow the links to some of them you may see how far research has gone.

For example
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/steinheim...

[Galileo]

I'm suprised the North Koreans haven't claimed it as a warning shot.

[Gwagon111]

Eric Mc said:

What's belief" got to do with it.

A meteor most definitely exploded in the sky over Tunguska in 1908. There is no dispute about it.

It could have been an alien vessel, full of little green men, who got into trouble and tried to ditch their stricken ship on a little island in the Atlantic, because they were (mis) informed by their leaders that it was a soft touch. But they missed. .

[Munter]

Galileo said:

I'm suprised the North Koreans haven't claimed it as a warning shot.

Or Iran as a successful test flight of their new stealth plane.