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Record Setting Asteroid Flyby

Jan. 28, 2013:  Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet's surface. There's no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has NASA's attention.

"This is a record-setting close approach," says Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at JPL. "Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth."

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Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Miss Earth on February 15, 2013

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In this oblique view, the path of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 is seen passing close to Earth on Feb. 15, 2013.

Discovered by the LaSagra observatory in southern Spain, the small asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within about 3.5 Earth radii of the Earth's surface on February 15, 2013. Although its size is not well determined, this near-Earth asteroid is thought to be about 45 meters in diameter. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass inside the geosynchronous satellite ring, located about 35,800 km above the equator. Its orbit about the sun can bring it no closer to the Earth's surface than 3.2 Earth radii on February 15, 2013. On this date, the asteroid will travel rapidly from the southern evening sky into the northern morning sky with its closest Earth approach occurring about 19:26 UTC when it will achieve a magnitude of less than seven, which is somewhat fainter than naked eye visibility. About 4 minutes after its Earth close approach, there is a good chance it will pass into the Earth's shadow for about 18 minutes or so before reappearing from the eclipse. When traveling rapidly into the northern morning sky, 2012 DA14 will quickly fade in brightness.
   

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news174.html

I saw this reported on my local news website tonight and thought, "How Quaint of Nasa to Depict anything close to Earth in Grey Scale once again"   ???

So, from the 6000+ satellites up there, it's going to hit none of them?
Good luck, NASA 8)

I liked the bit about the Tunguska blast of 1908 being a 'meteor that exploded above the surface' ::) :P

I hope someone films it, maybe it will be triangular...
"Oh look, another tile"
:D

Good point PWM!

I wish i was in the frame of mind to search how many possible objects orbiting it could possibly take out. 

I damn well hope we can get some footage of it from some keen Telescope Buffs :D

It's going to be difficult to film, they got that right :D
Apart from being dark, it will be moving fast, you would need to know exactly where it will appear in the sky & what direction it's going to be able to track it.

Even if i could track it with my 3 inch telescope, i could not film it, no camera adaptor as yet.
Also it will be around 4 PM here, so i won't see squat.....

So i'm hoping some real buffs will film it for us ;D

I once tracked a jumbo jet crossing the moon one night, it was in view for about 1/3 of a second, to give you some idea ::)

Go astronomers!

ETA: If it slams into a satellite or 2, that will be worth filming for sure ;)

I only found out about this on the TV yesterday.

I hope that they have calculated it correctly  :-\
and that no Satellites come crashing down..


SPACE – Scientists are predicting that the asteroid 2012 DA14 has a good chance of colliding with earth in eleven months. Watch the skies in February 2013! According to RT, NASA has confirmed that the 60 meter (or 197 feet) asteroid, which was spotted by Spanish stargazers in February this year, has a good chance of colliding with earth. The scientists suggest confronting this asteroid with either big guns or, more strangely, with paint. The problem with either option is that there is no time to build a spaceship for the operation. A spaceship could either shoot the asteroid down or simply crash into it – this would either break it into pieces or throw it off course. NASA expert David Dunham suggested: "We could paint it." The paint would change the asteroid's ability to reflect sunlight, alter its spin and change its temperature. However, even taking the asteroid off course could be dangerous when it returns in 2056, according to Aleksandr Devaytkin the head of the observatory in Russia's Pulkovo, as told to Izvestia in Russia recently. The asteroid's closest approach to earth is scheduled for 15 February 2013, when they predict that the distance between it and earth will be under 27,000 km (16,700 miles). With the asteroid zooming that low, it will be too late to do anything with it besides trying to predict its final destination and the consequences of impact. However, NASA's David Dunham did say: "The asteroid may split into pieces entering the atmosphere. In this case, most parts of it will never reach the planet's surface." But theories are that if the entire asteroid did crash into the planet, the impact will be as hard as in the Tunguska blast, which in 1908 knocked down trees over a total area of 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles) in Siberia. So keep your head down and watch the skies. –Digital Journal

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/earth-will-likely-be-impacted-by-large-asteroid-february-15-16-2013/

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NASA News Audio Live Streaming Thursday, Feb. 7: NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Asteroid Earth Flyby

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid 150-feet in diameter that will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15. The flyby creates a unique opportunity for researchers to observe and learn more about asteroids.

The teleconference participants are:
--Lindley Johnson, program executive, Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
--Timothy Spahr, director, Minor Planet Center, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
--Donald Yeomans, manager, NEO Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
--Amy Mainzer, principal investigator, NEOWISE observatory, JPL
--Edward Beshore, deputy principal investigator, Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer Asteroid Sample Return Mission, University of Arizona, Tucson

Reporters can obtain dial-in information by sending an email to Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov by noon Thursday. Requests must include the reporter's name, affiliation and telephone number.

Related images for the teleconference will be available here.


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http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

Related images for the teleconference will be available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/telecon20130207.html

For detailed information concerning the Earth flyby of 2012 DA14, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be broadcast from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. PST (9 p.m. to midnight EST) on Feb. 15. To view the feed and ask researchers questions via Twitter about the flyby, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

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150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth, no need to duck

A further Article...


http://news.yahoo.com/150-foot-asteroid-buzz-earth-no-duck-192322385.html

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.

But don't worry. Scientists promise the megarock will be at least 17,100 miles away when it zips past next Friday.

"No Earth impact is possible," Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Thursday.

Even the chance of an asteroid-satellite run-in is extremely remote, Yeomans and other scientists noted. A few hundred satellites orbit at 22,300 miles, higher than the asteroid's path, although operators are being warned about the incoming object for tracking purposes.

"No one has raised a red flag, nor will they," Yeomans told reporters. "I certainly don't anticipate any problems whatsoever."

Impossible to see with the naked eye, the asteroid is considered small as these things go. By contrast, the one that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles wide.

Yet Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it's known for its discovery date, still could pack a wallop.

If it impacted Earth — which it won't, scientists were quick to add Thursday — it would release the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT and wipe out 750 square miles. That's what happened in Siberia in 1908, when forest land around the Tunguska River was flattened by a slightly smaller asteroid that exploded about five miles above ground.

The likelihood of something this size striking Earth is once in every 1,200 years. A close, harmless encounter like this is thought to occur every 40 years.

The bulk of the solar system's asteroids are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and remain stable there for billions of years. Some occasionally pop out, though, into Earth's neighborhood

The closest approach of this one will occur next Friday afternoon, Eastern time, over Indonesia.

There won't be much of a show. The asteroid will zip by at 17,400 mph. That's roughly eight times faster than a bullet from a high-speed rifle.

The asteroid will be invisible to the naked eye and even with binoculars and telescopes will appear as a small point of light. The prime viewing locations will be in Asia, Australia and eastern Europe.

Observers in the U.S. can pretty much forget it. Astronomers using NASA's deep-space antenna in California's Mojave Desert will have to wait eight hours after the closest approach to capture radar images.

Scientists welcome whatever pictures they get. The asteroid offers a unique opportunity to observe something this big and close, and any new knowledge will help if and when another killer asteroid is headed Earth's way.

The close approach also highlights the need to keep track of what's out there, if for no other reason than to protect the planet.

NASA's current count of near-Earth objects: just short of 10,000, the result of a concentrated effort for the past 15 years. That's thought to represent less than 10 percent of the objects out there.

No one has ruled out a serious Earth impact, although the probability is said to be extremely low.

"We don't have all the money in the world to do this kind of work" for tracking and potentially deflecting asteroids, said Lindley Johnson, an executive with the Near-Earth Object observations program in Washington.

Indeed, when asked about NASA's plans to send astronauts to an asteroid in the decades ahead, as outlined a few years ago by President Barack Obama, Johnson said the space agency is looking at a number of options for human explorations.

One of the more immediate steps, planned for 2016, is the launch of a spacecraft to fly to a much bigger asteroid, collect samples and return them to Earth in 2023.

As for Asteroid 2012 DA14 — discovered last year by astronomers in Spain — scientists suspect it's made of silicate rock, but aren't sure. Its shape and precise size also are mysteries.

What they do know with certainty:

"This object's orbit is so well known that there's no chance of a collision," Yeomans repeated during Thursday's news conference.

Its close approach, in fact, will alter its orbit around the sun in such a way as to keep it out of Earth's neighborhood, at least in the foreseeable future, Yeomans said.

Johnson anticipates no "sky is falling thing" related to next week's flyby.

He and other scientists urged journalists to keep the close encounter in perspective.

"Space rocks hit the Earth's atmosphere on a daily basis. Basketball-size objects come in daily. Volkswagen-size objects come in every couple of weeks," Yeomans said.

The grand total of stuff hitting the atmosphere every day? "About 100 tons," according to Yeoman, though most of it arrives harmlessly as sand-sized particles.

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Online:

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

University of Arizona: http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu/

"I was out collecting some rocks on the Moon on sunny day when.... OH CRAP!!!!"

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Russia To Blow Up Earth-Bound Asteroid

QuoteRussia's space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely.


When the 270-meter (885-foot) asteroid was first discovered in 2004, astronomers estimated its chances of smashing into Earth in its first flyby, in 2029, at 1-in-37.

Further studies have ruled out the possibility of an impact in 2029, when the asteroid is expected to come no closer than 18,300 miles (29,450 kilometers) from Earth's surface, but they indicated a small possibility of a hit on subsequent encounters.

NASA had put the chances that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 as 1-in-45,000. In October, after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path, the agency changed its estimate to 1-in-250,000.

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Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Safely Pass Earth

The flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14 on Feb. 15, 2013,
will be the closest known approach to Earth for an object its size.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Asteroid and Comet Watch site (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/main/index.html)


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In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives -- Tunguska, the Russian Roswell, viewers investigate the destruction of 200 square miles of Siberian forest just prior to the Russian Revolution in 1908.

Was it, in fact, the impact of an asteroid that caused the explosion?

Or was it the crash site of a UFO?

Thanks Thor, that's exactly the point i wished to make, that whole Tunguska blast is still a mystery.
For a start, an asteroid that big (that had not already burned up) would be most likely to impact, & not 'explode in the air', in fact a search made years later never found that much evidence...

Asimov once posed it may have been a small black hole passing through the earth (highly improbable IMHO) and there is also the theory that it was caused by Tesla, something i don't dismiss out-of-hand because of the timeline ;)

Oh, and thanks for the great pics, Zorgon, that made me feel a whole lot better :P

ETA: Dutch news carried a story this evening about a possible sat collision, it was a bag of laughs :D

ETA: The one thing that really bugs me about Asimov, brilliant man though he was, he never believed in the existence of aliens, that's why he never wrote about them....

Some have attributed Tunguska to a Tesla experiment that pushed energy through the planet and "popped" it there.  [shrug]  Quien sabe?

Earth-buzzing asteroid worth $195 billion, space miners say | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/13/earth-buzzing-asteroid-worth-195-billion/)

The space rock set to give Earth a historically close shave this Friday, Feb. 15, may be worth nearly $200 billion, prospective asteroid miners say.

The 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 — which will zoom within 17,200 miles of Earth on Friday, marking the closest approach by such a large space rock that astronomers have ever known about in advance

— may harbor $65 billion of recoverable water

and $130 billion in metals,

say officials with celestial mining firm Deep Space Industries (http://deepspaceindustries.com/team/).


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'While this week's visitor isn't going the right way for us to harvest it, there will be others that are.'
- Deep Space chairman Rick Tumlinson


That's just a guess, they stressed, since 2012 DA14's composition is not well known and its size is an estimate based on the asteroid's brightness.

The company has no plans to go after 2012 DA14; the asteroid's orbit is highly tilted relative to Earth, making it too difficult to chase down. But the space rock's close flyby serves to illustrate the wealth of asteroid resources just waiting to be extracted and used, Deep Space officials said. Deep Space Industries' Asteroid-Mining Vision in Photos (http://www.space.com/19378-deep-space-industries-asteroid-mining-photos.html)




"While this week's visitor isn't going the right way for us to harvest it, there will be others that are, and we want to be ready when they arrive," Deep Space chairman Rick Tumlinson said in a statement Tuesday.

Deep Space Industries wants to use asteroid resources to help humanity expand its footprint out into the solar system. The company plans to convert space rock water into rocket fuel, which would be used to top up the tanks of off-Earth satellites and spaceships cheaply and efficiently.




Asteroidal metals such as iron and nickel, for their part, would form the basis of a space-based manufacturing industry that could build spaceships, human habitats and other structures off the planet.

The idea is to dramatically reduce the amount of material that needs to be launched from Earth, since it currently costs at least $10 million to send 1 ton of material to high-Earth orbit, officials said.

"Getting these supplies to serve communications satellites and coming crewed missions to Mars from in-space sources like asteroids is key if we are going to explore and settle space," Tumlinson said.

Deep Space Industries is just one of two asteroid-mining firms that have revealed their existence and intentions in the past 10 months. The other is Planetary Resources (http://www.planetaryresources.com/), which has financial backing from billionaires such as Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.




Deep Space aims to launch a phalanx of small, robotic prospecting probes called Fireflies in 2015. Sample-return missions to potential targets would occur shortly thereafter, with space mining operations possibly beginning around 2020.

Planetary Resources also hopes its activities open the solar system up for further and more efficient exploration. The company may launch its first low-cost prospecting space telescopes within the next year or so.

Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Surprising Facts About Friday's Earth Flyby (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/14/asteroid-surprising-facts-about-friday-flyby/)

While there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth this Friday, the asteroid's flyby is history-making for several other reasons.




Using intricate mapping techniques, researchers have already plotted the 150-foot space rock's trajectory far out into the future. When the asteroid flies by Earth, the planet's gravity will force the asteroid into a new orbit that won't bring it this close to the Earth for years to come.




Scientists think the "Tunguska Event" over Siberia in 1908 was caused by a 100-foot asteroid. This space rock exploded in midair, leveling trees across 825 square miles in the region.?If 2012 DA14 did enter Earth's atmosphere, it probably would react similarly — exploding above the ground and causing destruction over a wide area, but not endangering human civilization or causing other major global problems.




Asteroid 2012 DA14 was discovered by a team of amateur astronomers affiliated with the La Sagra Sky Survey at the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in southern Spain on Feb. 23, 2012.?At the time, the asteroid was about 2.7 million miles away from Earth. After the group reported the finding, NASA and other space agency scientists began tracking the asteroid to track its path and make sure it posed no threat to the planet.




On Friday, when asteroid 2012 DA14 approaches within 17,200 miles of Earth, it will be over Sumatra, Indonesia at its closest point while zipping by the planet. That's just one-thirteenth the average distance from Earth to the moon.?

At its closest approach on Friday at 2:24 p.m. EST (1924 GMT), the asteroid will be 5,000 miles closer to Earth than the ring of GPS, weather and communications satellites in orbit around the planet. Still, the satellites and the planet are safe from impact, researchers say.



Based on a statistical analysis, NASA researchers have found that asteroids like 2012 DA14 only graze Earth this closely once every 40 years or so. Similar asteroids can actually hit the Earth once every 1,200 years.?Larger asteroids are even less likely to give the planet such a close shave.

NASA researchers say that their Near Earth Object Program has helped to detect and track 90 percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids, and so far none of these behemoths are known to pose an impact threat in the foreseeable future.?

NASA will also be live-streaming the flyby via a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET (2100 to 0200 Feb. 16 GMT) on Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7YTmS6U8WM

Published on Mar 7, 2012

2012 DA14 is an approximately 40 meter diameter asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth in early 2013. Contrary to some reports on the web, there is no danger of it hitting us during this encounter.

This visualization shows the trajectory of the asteroid as computed by JPL's HORIZONS ephemeris service. As more observations of the 2012 DA14 are made, the trajectory may be revised.

Space scientists at NASA have an eye on asteroid 2012 DA14. Why? The 45-meter-wide space rock is expected to come extremely close to Earth next year--on Feb. 15 to be exact--and just might take out a satellite in the process.

The asteroid will pass by satellites in geostationary orbit about 35,800 kilometers (22,245 miles) above the equator, reportedly putting a communications satellite at risk of being hit.

"That's very unlikely, but we can't rule it out," Paul Chodas, a planetary astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told National Geographic. "The orbit for 2012 DA14 is currently very Earthlike, which means it will be very close to Earth on a regular basis."

But other than the small possibility of smashing a satellite, the asteroid poses no serious threat.

It has a tiny 0.033 percent--or 1 in 3,030--chance of Earth impact, according to data on NASA's website.

Want to keep tabs on asteroid 2012 DA14 as it whizzes past Earth tomorrow (Feb. 15)?

NASA TV and several online astronomy outlets will be tracking this asteroid as it makes its record-setting close shave. This marks the first time there has been an asteroid of this size passing this close that we've known a year beforehand. No, there's no chance it will hit us, but it will come within 27,630 kilometers (17,168 miles) from the surface of the Earth, inside the ring of geosynchronous satellites girdling our planet Earth. It will closest to Earth at 2:25 p.m. EST (19:25 UTC).

Find out how you can watch on TV or online as this 50 meter- (164 feet-) wide space rock goes by:

NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST, 19:00 UTC) on Friday, Feb. 15. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close. You can either watch the feed below, or on your own television if you get NASA TV, or online here (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html).

The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.

If you are planning to try and observe this asteroid yourself, here's our detailed article about how to do it (http://www.universetoday.com/99865/asteroid-2012-da14-observing-prospects-and-how-to-see-it/).


Here are other webcasts that are planned:

Virtual Telescope Project, Italy??Astronomer Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project will provide live views of asteroid 2012 DA14 from Ceccano, Italy, beginning at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). You can watch at this link (http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/).

Bareket Observatory, Israel
The Bareket Observatory in Israel will have a free live webcast of the 2012 DA14 asteroid flyby on Friday from at 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST (19:00 to 20:39 UTC).

Here's the link to this webcast (http://www.bareket-astro.com/live-astronomical-web-cast/asteroid-2012-da14-flyby-webcast.html).

"The observatory will offer a special live view of the close approach, using a remote telescope coupled with a cooled CCD camera, accessible via the Internet," said the observatory team.


Slooh Space Camera, Africa and Arizona
The Slooh Space Camera webcast will provide views of the asteroid from observatories in the Canary Islands (off the west coast of Africa) and in Arizona. They will also be viewable on iOS and Android mobile devices. Just go to the Slooh website on your device.

Slooh's webcast will begin on the 15th at 6 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST / 02:00 UTC (2/16). The webcasts will feature real-time commentary by Slooh Space Camera's Paul Cox, astronomer Bob Berman of Astronomy Magazine, and Matt Francis, the manager of Prescott Observatory at Embry-Riddle University in Arizona.

Here's the link to the Slooh Space Camera website (http://events.slooh.com/).

Australia to have grandstand view of Asteroid 2012 DA14 and its near-miss with Earth | Space, Military and Medicine | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australia-to-have-grandstand-view-of-asteroid-2012-da14-and-its-near-miss-with-earth/story-fn5fsgyc-1226577882092)

IT'S 50m long, weighs 200,000 tonnes and is going to whiz close by Earth at 28,000km/h - and Aussies will have one of the best views of Asteroid 2012 DA14.

And while the scientists assure us the space rock will miss the Earth and avoid a devastating impact, we would rather not take our chances.

i agree tunguska was tesla but he used the first plasma weapon as a joke and overshot into russia.the snow flash to high pressure steam and fire over a large area because tesla couldnt focus the beam that narrow of a spot over such a long distance and thats why the area has the butterfly effect where the explosion occured.

tesla had access to large quatities of electricity during his years in colorado.
i believe that is the time period of admiral byrd north pole exploration.

i am not a believer in asteroid pre explosion.some russians say they saw a ship.some say meteor.i think they are bs.

just my opinion

that rock flying buy tomorrow is too small to mine and too dangerous to blow up.now a carbon fiber net with a space chute and high altitude chute might recover it if it can reenter safely.

Meteorite Alert,

This looks to be early incoming, hitting Russia now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zx0csSr5hY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7T1jeUnL_e0

Event into Space, recorded by RSOE...

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=CO-20130215-38216-RUS

QuoteRussian officials say a meteorite has fallen in the Chelyabinsk region some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow. A spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Vadim Kolesnikov, said the Friday morning fall caused a blast that broke windows. There were no immediate confirmed reports of injuries, but Russian news agencies cited unnamed sources as saying several people were injured at a school in a thinly populated part of the region, which is on the eastern edge of the Ural Mountains.

RT on Twitter

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/302294424002650113



BREAKING: Urals #meteorite shot down by Russian air defense - military source http://on.rt.com/qn2v57  #Russia

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Meteorite crash in Russia: UFO fears spark panic in the Urals (VIDEO,...

A series of explosions in the skies of Russia's Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteorite shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA

Meteorite Shower Hits Russia, Kazakhstan

Since when does a meteorite leave a TWIN contrail?

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Sonic boom loud enough to shatter windows and shake camera man

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QuoteMOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) – A meteorite shower has hit three regions of Russia, and Kazakhstan, Russian Emergencies Ministry officials confirmed on Friday morning.

In one affected Russian region, Chelyabinsk, the authorities have received numerous calls reporting injuries received as a result of the meteorite shower, and 20,000 emergency response workers have been mobilized. Background radiation levels reportedly remain unchanged.

Reports vary about whether this was one larger meteorite, or many smaller ones.

"Verified information indicates that this was one meteorite which burned up as it approached Earth and disintegrated into smaller pieces" deputy head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry press office, Elena Smirnykh said.

QuoteRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the economic forum held in the neighboring Krasnoyarsk region, called the meteorite fall "a symbol of the forum."

"I hope that there will be no serious consequences, but it is a demonstration that it is not only the economy that is vulnerable, but our planet as well," he said.

Russia's nuclear agency, Rosatom, issued a statement saying its facilities across affected regions were functioning normally.

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130215/179481049/Meteorite-Shower-Hits-Russia-Kazakhstan.html

Look at this orbit, this does not look like a meteorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKpHMS3Nlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lUKpHMS3Nlw#!

This looks nuclear to me, maybe its just a very bright
meteorite, with twin vapor trails that the RT says the
Russian Defense has shot it down...

WTH?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qin41lP9r2U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qin41lP9r2U

This is an older one that came up in the search... but I put it in here as this is another Russian daylight fall I never saw before tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_FHntrKSg

Another recording of sonic booms, breaking windows,
car alarms....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0cFOIoITW4

Reposting the Twitter feed from Russian Times I have come to trust RT News and so them saying it was shot down really perks me up

Meteorite crash in Russia: UFO fears spark panic in the Urals



A series of explosions in the skies of Russia's Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteorite shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and cellphones have stopped working.

According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. A missile salvo reportedly blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers.

­A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from space objects such as asteroids or comets, ranging in size from tiny to gigantic.

When a meteorite falls on Earth, passing through the atmosphere causes it to heat up and emit a trail of light, forming a fireball known as a meteor, or shooting or falling star.

A bright flash was seen in the Chelyabinsk, Tyumen and Sverdlovsk regions, Russia's Republic of Bashkiria and in northern Kazakhstan.

Up to 150 people sought medical attention as a result of the incident, according to the Russian Interior Ministry. No serious injuries have been reported, with most of the injuries caused by broken glass and minor concussions.

Lifenews tabloid said that at least one piece of the fallen object caused damage on the ground in Chelyabinsk. According to preliminary reports, it crashed into a wall near a zinc factory, disrupting the city's Internet and mobile service.

The Emergency Ministry reported that 20,000 rescue workers are operating in the region. Three aircraft were deployed to survey the area and locate other possible impact locations.

Witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it seemed like an earthquake and thunder had struck at the same time, and that there were huge trails of smoke across the sky. Others reported seeing burning objects fall to earth.

Reprinted from RT News (http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxXYscmgRg

Here they are filming the trail when BAM!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mLUIDGqmw

Hundreds with minor injuries from glass flying from the shattered windows  Look how long that smoke trail lingers

More vidoe footage :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wgytArRssM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdctJHuJk0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjsYG-tSw8g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PavGMTSFbDU

Bill Nye telling us to FEAR ASTEROIDS  Wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xo-TW_cOOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSDx3NyGtXc

okay so here is that smoke  and those explosions sounded like hundreds of fireworks, not a sonic boom (heard sonic booms many times out here :P )

But that smoke just lingers  and the colors...  something fishy here

Quote from: zorgon on February 15, 2013, 08:35:08 AM
Bill Nye telling us to FEAR ASTEROIDS  Wow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xo-TW_cOOQ

Wow... Werner Von Braun hit the nail again.... :o

How close we are to the next step in the "agenda" now that the asteroid season is open?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV772vO3lxw

Quote from: zorgon on February 15, 2013, 08:52:22 AM
okay so here is that smoke  and those explosions sounded like hundreds of fireworks, not a sonic boom (heard sonic booms many times out here :P )

But that smoke just lingers  and the colors...  something fishy here

Yeah Zorgon. So fishy im calling it stage 3

STAGE 1: THE RUSSIAN/COMMUNIST COLD WAR SCARE

STAGE 2: THE "TERRORIST" SCARE

STAGE 3: THE "ASTEROID" SCARE

STAGE 4: THE STAGED ALIEN INVASION

LOL I ran into Carol Rosin on Facebook... I tried talking to her about space weapons and she got pissed, deleted the post and unfriended me... So either she is a fraud or that was an impostor on Facebook :D

RUSSO!!!! Where ya been hiding?  Just in time to witness the Apocalypse :D

QuoteSo either she is a fraud or that was an impostor

Fraud or not, it seems that the whole thing is fitting in that schedule :o

QuoteWhere ya been hiding?  Just in time to witness the Apocalypse

Yeah man, i know... My work is taking so much of my time that im thinking head to the hills ( a hill with internet of course  ;D) and abandon society ::)

Btw, Im ready for those smelly Zombies too  :P

WHY??? WHY are they searching for the meteorite with SEVEN JETS?

7 jets scrambled to look for meteorite in Russia

(http://m.ruvr.ru/data/2013/02/15/1339432400/660tr5.jpg)

A lot of articles here on The Voice of Russia. I will add them later

The Voice of Russia (http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/7-jets-scrambled-to-look-for-meteorite-in-Russia/)

Quote from: zorgon on February 15, 2013, 09:54:20 AM
WHY??? WHY are they searching for the meteorite with SEVEN JETS?

7 jets scrambled to look for meteorite in Russia

The Voice of Russia (http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/7-jets-scrambled-to-look-for-meteorite-in-Russia/)

QuoteMany speculated on what caused the powerful explosion – some claimed it was a crashed plane, while others said it could have been a UFO. "My windows were not smashed, but I first thought that my house is being dismantled, then I thought it was a UFO, and my eventual thought was an earthquake," Bukreeva Olga wrote on Twitter.

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ (http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/)

Could this be a "Lock and loaded" meteorite? That would be new  :o

QuoteWitnesses in Chelyabinsk said the city's air smells like gunpowder. Many locals reported that the explosion rattled their houses and smashed windows.

Quote"This explosion, my ears popped, windows were smashed... phone doesn't work," Evgeniya Gabun wrote on Twitter.

This is really weird and why the "phones down" issue?

Quotehttp://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=13178

Well, sooner or later we will have the answers (will we? ???)

Meteor strike injures hundreds in central Russia

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The BBC's Daniel Sandford says people described a ball of fire in the sky

QuoteA meteor crashing in central Russia's Ural mountains has injured at least 500 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.

Most of those hurt suffered minor cuts and bruises but some received head injuries, Russian officials report.

A fireball was seen streaking through the sky above the city of Yekaterinburg, followed by loud bangs.

The meteor is believed to have landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in the neighbouring Chelyabinsk region.

Much of the impact was felt in the city of Chelyabinsk, some 200km (125 miles) south of Yekaterinburg.
Continue reading the main story   
"Start Quote

    It suddenly became as bright as if it was day"

Viktor Prokofiev Yekaterinburg resident

"We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud thundering sound," Chelyabinsk resident Sergey Hametov told AP news agency by phone.

Officials say a large meteor partially burned up in the lower atmosphere, resulting in fragments falling earthwards.

Thousands of rescue workers have been dispatched to the area to provide help to the injured, the emergencies ministry said.

The Chelyabinsk region, about 1,500km (930 miles) east of Moscow, is home to many factories, a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.

BBC News More here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116)

Couple odd earthquake. Most likely coincidence... Siberia and middle of the Sahara Desert, about the same time as the meteorite strike :D

The odd one is Sahara... there are never any EQ's there according to IRIS... and its a hot spot to collect meteorites. I have bought several from there.

NASA says the Earth will cause seismic shocks on that space rock passing us, but will that rock have enough oompf to tug at out tectonic plates and stir the pot?

(http://thelivingmoon.com/Vault/Feb_15_2013.png)

I will be watching tomorrow :D

http://www.iris.edu/dms/seismon.htm

BAH them russhkies get all the fun!
the best Russian site on the web ;)


http://englishrussia.com/ (http://englishrussia.com/)
oh hit the "read more" under the vid for awesome pics

6m-crater found at site of alleged fragment crash

QuoteThe Russian military have discovered a 6-meter wide crater that appears to have been made by a meteorite fragment that crashed near a lake, in the town of Chebarkul.

Background radiation remains at a normal level, a source with the Russian defense ministry has told reporters.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/6m-crater-found-at-site-of-alleged-fragment-crash/ (http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/6m-crater-found-at-site-of-alleged-fragment-crash/)

No pictures yet tho.

Quote from: stealthyaroura on February 15, 2013, 11:26:17 AM
oh hit the "read more" under the vid for awesome pics

Great thing about English Russia, RT and Pravda they allow you to copy :D

Now THIS image... NO WAY a meteor makes that kind of smoke

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/511dd23acce85.jpg)

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jA87EcZixWM.jpg)

So what was this that blew up?

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BDHoYXiCUAIcUEk.jpg-large.jpeg)

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/yhJHGlhfgFk.jpg)

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ZmG7yvICMbM.jpg)

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BDHYu4rCcAEA4MK.jpg)

(http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BDH7zB6CQAElQEA.jpg-large.jpg)

Three meteorite crash sites found in Chelyabinsk

Someone go over to ATS and ask Phage about these PERSISTENT CONTRAILS :P

(http://m.ruvr.ru/data/2013/02/15/1339453907/4RIAN_01376810.LR.ru.jpg)
Photo: RIA Novosti
Three craters have been discovered in the Russian Chelyabinsk region following the crash of three meteorite fragments earlier on Friday, a source with local police has said.

Quote"As of now, the situation room has received reports saying that three meteorite impact points have been found," a press office member said.

Two fragments were allegedly discovered in the Chebarkul district, while another one came down near Zlatoustye.

Russia's space agency confirms meteorite crash  (http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/Russia-s-space-agency-confirms-meteorite-crash/)

Russia's main space agency Roscosmos has confirmed a meteorite crash in the central Urals region.

"A space object came down in the city of Chelyabinsk on February 15," the official report says. "According to preliminary estimates, it was a space body of non- anthropogenic origin later classified as a meteorite. It followed a low trajectory going at a speed of some 30 kilometers per second," Roscosmos added.

Most damage was reported in the Chelyabinsk region, although the incident allegedly led to minor damage in Russia's Tyumen, Kurgan and Sverdlov regions, as well as in northern Kazakhstan.

Windows have been shattered and houses rattled on the impact, witnesses said. Over 470 people have been injured.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/Three-meteorite-crash-sites-found-in-Chelyabinsk/

Russian MP blames meteor shower on US secret arms test

(http://m.ruvr.ru/data/2013/02/15/1339437488/10o_740041.jpg)
Photo: RIA Novosti
Russia's controversial Liberal leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has blamed Americans for today's meteorite scare, local media report.

Quote"Those were not meteorites, it was Americans testing their new weapons," Mr. Zhirinovsky confessed to journalists. "[US Secretary of State] John Kerry wanted to warn [Russia's Foreign Minister] Lavrov on Monday, he was looking for Lavrov, and Lavrov was on a trip. He meant to warn Lavrov about a provocation against Russia," he said.

The US Department of State has recently said that John Kerry has been unable to get in touch with Russia's Sergei Lavrov, who is away on his Africa tour, for three days to discuss urgent global issues, including the North Korean threat and the escalating Syrian crisis.

Meteorite debris reportedly hit Russia's Urals region early on Friday, injuring about 400 people. The Yekaterinburg observatory said bolide-shaped debris came down as a meteor shower.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/Russian-MP-blames-meteor-shower-on-US-secret-arms-test/

Urals meteorite allegedly intercepted by Russia's air defense

A massive meteorite crash shook the Urals region in central Russia early Friday, shattering windows and prompting panic in three major cities. According to some reports, the meteor was intercepted by the air defense complex at the Urzhumka village near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, when a salvo missile allegedly burst the "shooting star" at an altitude of 20 kilometers.

Witnesses reported a sudden change in atmospheric pressure upon the impact that made their ears pop. The space object hit the ground with a tremendous crash that resembled thunder and earthquake, damaging houses in Chelyabinsk and cutting off communications, witnesses say.

Residents of Emanzhilinsk, a town 50 kilometers away from Chelyabinsk, said they saw an object high in the sky that suddenly burst into flames, broke apart and fell to earth. Some people in Chelyabinsk said the air smelt like gunpowder.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/Urals-meteorite-allegedly-intercepted-by-Russia-s-air-defense/

Another dash cam capture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8-ekWUIW8w

off topic .whats the red dot in the middle of north africa.
russian leader in africa?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/meteorite-streaks-across-russian-urals_n_2691904.html


Meteor Streaks Across Russian Urals, Leaves At Least 750 Injured (VIDEO)
By JIM HEINTZ 02/15/13 09:00 AM ET EST 



The meteor – estimated to be about 10 tons – entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement.



...

Small pieces of space debris – usually parts of comets or asteroids – that are on a collision course with the Earth are called meteoroids. They become meteors when they enter the Earth's atmosphere. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere, but if they survive the frictional heating and strike the surface of the Earth they are called meteorites.

Meteors typically cause sizeable sonic booms when they enter the atmosphere because they are traveling much faster than the speed of sound. Injuries on the scale reported Friday, however, are extraordinarily rare.

The meteor hit less than a day before the asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid to the Earth – about 17,150 miles (28,000 kilometers). But the European Space Agency in a tweet said its experts had determined there was no connection......

A six-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) crater was found in the same area, which could come from space fragments striking the ground, the news agency cited military spokesman Yaroslavl Roshchupkin as saying.

.....

The dramatic events prompted an array of reactions from prominent Russians.

....

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the incident showed the need for leading world powers to develop a system to intercept objects falling from space.

"At the moment, neither we nor the Americans have such technologies" to shoot down meteors or asteroids, he said, according to the Interfax news agency.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/meteorite-streaks-across-russian-urals_n_2691904.html

What about this one?

Remanzacco Observatory - Comets & Neo: Close Approach of Asteroid 2013 CL22 (http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2013/02/close-approach-of-asteroid-2013-cl22.html)


M.P.E.C. 2013-C24 (http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K13/K13C24.html), issued on 2013 Feb. 6, reports the discovery of the asteroid 2013 CL22 (discovery magnitude 16.7) by J75 OAM Observatory, La Sagra on images taken on February 05.06 with a 0.45-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD.

2013 CL22 has an estimated size of 30 m - 68 m

(based on the object's absolute magnitude H=24.7) and it had a close approach with Earth at about 1.2 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0031 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 0743 UT on 2013 Feb. 02. This asteroid reached the peak magnitude ~13.1 on February 02 around 1600 UT.


This asteroid has gone unnoticed through its close approach.

In the period from January 30 to February 05 (discovery date) the asteroid was brighter than magnitude 20 (mag. ~19.8 on Jan. 30, ~18.4 on Jan. 31, ~15.6 on Feb. 01, ~13.5 on Feb. 02, ~15.9 on Feb, 03).



2013 CL22
Found: 5feb13

Close approach: 2feb13

0.00307507730848359 astronomical units =

285,846.294 miles
or
460,025.018 kilometers


Hey everybody - look over here at DA14 - for sure not to hit planet Earth... :o

Don't suppose that there might be more incoming that we're not being told about - OH FIDDLESTICKS -
we were warned - Skyfall        :P

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/lg50aa500a.gif) (//http://)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRSrdOfbnHI



Russian Meteor Shower Linked to DA14 Asteroid? (http://www.infowars.com/russian-meteor-linked-to-da14-asteroid/)
   

"It was like a scene from the Armageddon movie"

February 15, 2013

Experts are pondering whether a meteorite shower which caused panic in Russia, injuring over 500 people, devastating buildings and wiping out the cell phone network, is linked to today's fly-by of DA14, the "city killer" asteroid that NASA has assured will not hit the earth.

...

Space experts are divided on whether the meteor is connected to today's fly-by of asteroid DA14, which will pass within 17,200 miles of the earth's surface, closer than many orbiting satellites.

The European Space Agency (ESA) put out a message on its official Twitter account claiming that the meteor shower was not debris from the DA14 asteroid.

However, Tatiana Bordovitsina, an astronomy professor at Tomsk State University in western Siberia, told RIA Novosti that the meteor, "could have been debris preceding the asteroid."

Professor Ian Crawford of Birkbeck University told Sky News that, "it was too early to tell if this incident was connected to the asteroid passing by the earth tonight," but added that if meteorites were traveling with the asteroid, they would be several hours ahead of it.

Curtin University asteroid expert Phil Bland told an Australian website, "Is it connected to the flyby? A lot of folks would say "no". Personally, I've always kind of liked the idea that there are streams of asteroid debris – so you can have smaller stuff that precede and trail a bigger object.

It seems like an awful big coincidence if it's not connected."

Simon O'Toole, an astronomer at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, thinks that there is unlikely to be a connection. "As pointed out elsewhere, DA14 is still half a million kilometres away, travelling at 8km per second, for a start! Could it be part of the asteroid that has broken away and reached earth already? This seems unlikely to me," he said.


Dr Stephen Lowry, planetary scientist at the University of Kent, doubted the connection but remarked that the meteorite shower was "an incredible conincidence."


"If I had to bet, I would say it's not related. But it's not unheard of for asteroids to have companion bodies with them,"

said Mark Ford of the British and Irish Meteorite Society.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reacted to the incident by warning that the "whole planet" is vulnerable to near-earth objects, while

nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky even claimed the event was actually "the test of a new weapon by the Americans,"

adding that, "[Secretary of state John] Kerry warned [foreign minister Sergei] Lavrov on Monday ... that there would be such a provocation and that it might affect Russia."

Officials issued a statement assuring that no nuclear sites had been hit by the meteor and that no radiation leaks had been recorded.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKpHMS3Nlw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r78ZjEwIqD4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDfvsEHztZg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCawTYPtehk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6Pa5Pv_io

4:40 meter
6:55 Boom!

Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html)

Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning, before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left hundreds of people hurt.

The number of injured continues to rise as new reports come in from across a wide area.

As of noon Moscow time, as many as 725 people had sought medical help, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

Deputy Health Minister Igor Kagramanyan said 571 people had sought medical help, with 34 of them hospitalized, according to state-news agency Itar-Tass.


From the horse's - errr - mouth:

NASA spokesman Steve Cole (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-059) told CNN that scientists had determined that the Russian meteor was on a very different trajectory from the asteroid.


"They are completely unrelated objects --

it's a strange coincidence (http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/ap4f297142.png)

they are happening at the same time," he said.


Cole said he wasn't aware if scientists had foreseen the meteor's entry into the atmosphere.

(http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/lol-045.gif) (http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/skype-emoticons.html)

Because meteoroids are smaller than asteroids or comets, they are hard to spot and there is often little warning that they are heading toward Earth, he said.

But they 'found' and have been tracking a smaller one for over a year - DA14...



The national space agency, Roscosmos (http://www.roscosmos.ru/), said scientists believed one meteoroid had entered the atmosphere, where it burned and disintegrated into fragments, according to RIA Novosti.

The resulting meteorites are believed to be scattered across three regions of Russia, one of them Chelyabinsk, as well as neighboring Kazakhstan, the news agency said.

One large chunk was discovered in a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, RIA Novosti cited the Chelyabinsk governor as saying.

A spokesman for the Emergency Ministry for the Chelyabinsk region told CNN that the latest information it had was that 524 people there were injured and 34 hospitalized.

Quote from: zorgon on February 15, 2013, 07:32:54 AM
This is an older one that came up in the search... but I put it in here as this is another Russian daylight fall I never saw before tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_FHntrKSg

Did you notice at 2:59-3:00 it looks like something may have been fired at the rock?

i see quotes on ats of 950 people injured

Video: Meteorite strikes Russia earlier today. More than 500 people hurt. | Earth | EarthSky (http://earthsky.org/space/video-meteorite-hits-russia-earlier-today-more-than-500-people-hurt)






WTF ?

We were on the Wiki DA14 page and going to comment on how fast Wiki is updated regarding this Russian meteor event - and it went POOF!

2012 DA14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_DA14)
2012 DA14 is a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of 50 meters (160 ft) and an estimated mass of 190,000 metric tons.[4] It was discovered on February 23, 2012, by the Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra, Granada in Spain (J75)[1] seven days after passing 0.0174 AU (2,600,000 km; 1,620,000 mi) from Earth.[3] Calculations show that on February 15, 2013, the distance between the asteroid and the center-point of Earth will be 0.0002276 AU (34,050 km; 21,160 mi).[3] The asteroid will pass 27,700 km (17,200 mi) from the surface of Earth.[2] This is a record close approach for a known object of this size.[2]

And right here in this space...

12:40 PM EST
This was posted on WIKI AND THEN DISAPPEARED WHILST WE WERE WRITING...always take screenshots...ratsandmice!

"On the morning of the same day of closest approach, February 15, 2013, a separate meteor strike occurred over South Ural, Russia, that resulted in the hospitalization of more than 900 people. This meteor was later determined to have been in a significantly different orbit from 2012 DA14, therefore an unrelated meteor."

Russian Diamonds: Siberian Meteorite Crater Said To Hold Trillions Of Carats (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/russian-diamonds-siberian-meteorite-crater-carats_n_1891691.html)

MOSCOW -- Russian scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could revolutionize industry.

The Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences said that the Popigai crater in eastern Siberia contains "many trillions of carats" of so-called "impact diamonds" – good for technological purposes, not for jewelry, and far exceeding the currently known global deposits of conventional diamonds.

Nikolai Pokhilenko, the head of the Geological and Mineralogical Institute in Novosibirsk, told RIA Novosti news agency Monday that the diamonds include other molecular forms of carbon. He said they could be twice as hard as conventional diamonds and therefore have superlative industrial qualities.

He said the minerals could lead to a "revolution" in various industries.

"But they can't upset a diamond market because it is shaped by diamonds for jewelry purposes."

the wiki  stuff is back up now


do you guys realize how much fear is being generated by this happening before the one tomorrow?

so if you can do anything to work to challenge the fear with other emotions
PLEASE DO

Hi all,

I was wondering why Russia has not released the
data from the contents of the site impact.

Lots of curious vapor trails, and the smell of gunpowder...

Could be some meteorite action never observed with
camera's before, or it could be something else.

The only way to put it to bed so to speak is show us the
proof. If its a meteorite, so easy to tell by examing the impact
site and testing the peices.

So come Russia, show us the real deal!

RSOE reports 985 injured in Russia.
Didn't see any missile trails or such in those films..... ???
Another meteorite hit Cuba about 2 hours ago, no other reports as yet. :o

BTW nice shots from the amateurs in Aussi-land.
Well done, chaps

Meteor Crashes in Cuba Day After Russia Fireball
Friday, February 15, 2013 9:10% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.


link in the story is in spanish for any who can translate
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/news.php?newsid=174956

http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/02/meteor-crashes-in-cuba-day-after-russia-fireball-2454428.html
   
(Before It's News)

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Cuba Update: Apparently, another potential meteor crash may have happened in Cuba today. Related? From the foreign language news site: "In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky."

Mmm, i saw it on RSOE, i don't know where they get their data from, but it's always been reliable, IMO.

NASA just updated their statement:
"We think there is no risk to all the known satellites in orbit"

That's a 'cover my ass' statement if ever i heard one :D

California scientists propose system to vaporize asteroids that threaten Earth (http://earthsky.org/science-wire/california-scientists-propose-system-to-vaporize-asteroids-that-threaten-earth)

Two California scientists are unveiling their proposal for a system that could eliminate an asteroid threat.

As an asteroid roughly half as large as a football field — and with energy equal to a large hydrogen bomb — readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists are unveiling their proposal for a system that could eliminate a threat of this size in an hour. The same system could destroy asteroids 10 times larger than the one known as 2012 DA14 in about a year, with evaporation starting at a distance as far away as the Sun.

UC Santa Barbara physicist and professor Philip M. Lubin, and Gary B. Hughes, a researcher and professor from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, conceived DE-STAR, or Directed Energy Solar Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation, as a realistic means of mitigating potential threats posed to the Earth by asteroids and comets.




Concept drawing of the DE-STAR system engaging both an asteroid for evaporation or composition analysis, and simultaneously propelling an interplanetary spacecraft. Credit: Philip M. Lubin


"We have to come to grips with discussing these issues in a logical and rational way," said Lubin, who began work on DE-STAR a year ago. "We need to be proactive rather than reactive in dealing with threats. Duck and cover is not an option. We can actually do something about it and it's credible to do something. So let's begin along this path. Let's start small and work our way up. There is no need to break the bank to start."




Described as a "directed energy orbital defense system," DE-STAR is designed to harness some of the power of the Sun and convert it into a massive phased array of laser beams that can destroy, or evaporate, asteroids posing a potential threat to Earth. It is equally capable of changing an asteroid's orbit — deflecting it away from Earth, or into the Sun — and may also prove to be a valuable tool for assessing an asteroid's composition, enabling lucrative, rare-element mining. And it's entirely based on current essential technology.

"This system is not some far-out idea from Star Trek," Hughes said. "All the components of this system pretty much exist today. Maybe not quite at the scale that we'd need — scaling up would be the challenge — but the basic elements are all there and ready to go. We just need to put them into a larger system to be effective, and once the system is there, it can do so many things."




"There are large asteroids and comets that cross the Earth's orbit, and some very dangerous ones going to hit the Earth eventually," he added. "Many have hit in the past and many will hit in the future. We should feel compelled to do something about the risk. Realistic solutions need to be considered, and this is definitely one of those." more (http://earthsky.org/science-wire/california-scientists-propose-system-to-vaporize-asteroids-that-threaten-earth)

RAN is reporting that this was a 10 ton Bolide (bright fireball).
Haha then so much for the claims that The U.S. launched
some secret weapon. (* bts makes mental note that
this is proof that Russia starts a lot
of these rumors )

Satellite images here:

Quote­The object was identified as a solitary 10 ton bolide by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Bolides or bright fireballs are large meteors that explode in the lower atmosphere, and unlike meteorite showers they can be dangerous, scientists explained.

The Chelyabinsk fireball entered the atmosphere moving at a speed of about 20 km/s. The body of several meters in diameter then burst into pieces at the height of 30-50 km above the ground, RAN reported.
http://rt.com/news/scientists-explain-chelyabinsk-bolide-337/

Weather sattelite Meteosat 10 has taken an image of the meteriote shortly after entering the atmosphere (Copyright 2013 © EUMETSAT)

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Weather sattelite Meteosat 10 has taken an image of the meteriote shortly after entering the atmosphere (Copyright 2013 © EUMETSAT)

Quote from: burntheships on February 15, 2013, 07:06:22 PM
So come Russia, show us the real deal!

More damage;

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvHl5Qcnzc

Hole in lake;

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZLPQtX2Pw4

Taken from plane;

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I find it really odd that so many cameras were on this one

Caught on Satellite

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SAVE EVERYTHING :P

So RT is saying a small ASTEROID that broke up into many pieces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOPjfrkLslI

Quote from: sky otter on February 15, 2013, 07:01:04 PM
do you guys realize how much fear is being generated by this happening before the one tomorrow?

Nah  been watching it on facebook... the 'fear' is just the typical "OMG!!! ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!" fear   LOL I actually had a grammar Nazi tag me on that phrase  for shouting, and "it's instead of its"  He did remove his comment after he realized it was an example  dumb ass :P

Quoteso if you can do anything to work to challenge the fear with other emotions
PLEASE DO

Well I am inclined to let the Lemming jump of the cliff... it's what Lemmings do :P but for you...

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Quote from: sky otter on February 15, 2013, 07:18:31 PM
link in the story is in spanish for any who can translate
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/news.php?newsid=174956

Actually that is Italian  (.it)  ;)

Celestial body explodes in Cuba

QuoteCuba, 15.02.2013

Residents of a locality 'in the central region of Cuba said they had seen an object that fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, which shook the houses of the place: it is learned from testimonies collected by local television.

In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky.

Fun facts! No wonder the light was literally blinding, so much it appeared nuclear!


The meteor was 1/3 the diameter of DA14....and brighter than the sun!

QuoteThe meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html

So, imagine then what it might be like to have an asteroid hit the earth?

Lesson here: worry before the Asteroid passes, as the "debris" is ahead of
it. Oh, yes and this fireball was not related, of course. Of course.

notice: god hates communist
the message was sent from the heavens.it must be true.

Quote from: burntheships on February 15, 2013, 09:49:36 PM
Lesson here: worry before the Asteroid passes, as the "debris" is ahead of
it. Oh, yes and this fireball was not related, of course. Of course.

Well heck... isn't that why we call them METEOR SHOWERS?  because space rocks are social and like to travel in groups?  Sheesh

But the real lesson here is NASA MISSED this one entirely  They were so busy saying nothing will happen and we get hit by a rock one third as big that they didn't see coming. i will post their article anyway... better late than never LOL

NASA:  "We think there is no risk to all the KNOWN satellites in orbit"

What a butt cover :P

Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby
02.15.13

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A meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC impacted Chelyabinsk. Preliminary information is that this object was unrelated to asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a safe pass by Earth today. Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-Caltech

Preliminary information indicates that a meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia, is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14, which is flying by Earth safely today.

The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. The meteor entered the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second). The impact time was 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15), and the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons.

Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons.

The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere.

It is important to note that this estimate is preliminary, and may be revised as more data is obtained.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

News Releases

Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington                             
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

Janet Anderson
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
256-544-0034
janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov
Feb. 15, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY : M13-033


NASA Experts Discuss Russia Meteor in Media Teleconference Today


WASHINGTON -- NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 4 p.m. EST today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia's Urals region this morning.

Scientists have determined the Russia meteor is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14 that will safely pass Earth today at a distance of more than 17,000 miles. Early assessments of the Russia meteor indicate it was about one-third the size of 2012 DA14 and traveling in a different direction.

Panelists for the teleconference are:
-- Bill Cooke, lead for the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
-- Paul Chodas, research scientist in the Near Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

News media interested in participating should dial 888-843-7186 and use the passcode METEOR.

The teleconference will be carried live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For detailed information concerning the Earth flyby of 2012 DA14, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

NASA to Broadcast Asteroid Flyby of Earth

Feb. 13, 2013:  NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named "2012 DA14." NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.

The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.

At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 2:25 p.m. EST (11:25 a.m. PST/ 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth's surface. Measuring approximately 50 meters wide, 2012 DA14 is about half the size of a football field. Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object this big come so close to our planet. The asteroid will actually pass closer to Earth than many manmade satellites.

The commentary will be available via NASA TV and streamed live online at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid's flyby before and after closest approach, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about noon EST (9 a.m. PST) and continuing through the afternoon at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

Also, a Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST). To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

For more information, including graphics and animations showing the flyby of 2012 DA14, visit www.nasa.gov/asteroidflyby


That is NOW :P

Fun begins

Russia Goes On High Alert After UFO Shoot-Down Injures Hundreds

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QuoteA grim report prepared by the Space Forces Command (VKS) circulating in the Kremlin today says that one of its air defense units operating in "high alert" status, and located at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk, fired at and destroyed [photo 2nd right] an "unidentified cosmic object" at an altitude of 20 kilometers which then exploded causing widespread massive damage and injuring over 500 people.

Chelyabinsk, one of the nation's most vital industrial centers, is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of the oblast, 210 kilometers (130 mi) south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River, on the border of Europe and Asia, with a population of 1.3 million.

The air defence unit attacking this UFO, this VKS report says, used an S-400 'Triumph' system ordered to Russia's borders this past fall by President Putin.

The S-400 Triumph is a next-generation anti-aircraft weapon system capable of firing three different missile types. The system was designed to intercept and destroy jamming planes, radar planes, reconnaissance aircraft, strategic carriers, cruise missiles and medium-range ballistic missiles.

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http://www.eutimes.net/2013/02/russia-goes-on-high-alert-after-ufo-shoot-down-injures-hundreds/

WOW So THIS is new never heard of them... time to dig :D

Space Forces Command (VKS)

LOL But then... the original source of THIS one is Sorcha Faal :P

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Flag of the Russian Space Forces

QuoteThe Russian Space Forces was the branch of the Russian Military responsible for military space operations. Established on August 10, 1992, following the breakup of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Armed Forces, the organisation shared control of the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Russian Federal Space Agency. It also operated the Plesetsk and the Svobodny Cosmodromes. On 1 December 2011, it was replaced by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.

So Russia does have a Space Command  :o  I never thought to look :P My bad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Space_Forces

OMG!!!! Sorcha got one right :P

Zorgon,

This is interesting. Kerry Cassidy also has a note up now
saying she was given anonymous info pertaining to
this event, and person claims to have irrefutable proof
that a missile was involved.

http://projectcamelotportal.com/kerrys-blog/1557-breaking-it-was-a-missle

Maybe it was just a fireball, still though I can help but wonder
about those Russia Times tweets claiming DF shot something.

Kerry and Bill make a lot of claims  and they find a lot of anonymous witnesses. But can they back it up?   ::)

so the russians have technology that can shoot down meteors and the usa doesnt?

Quote from: zorgon on February 16, 2013, 12:18:36 AM
Kerry and Bill make a lot of claims  and they find a lot of anonymous witnesses. But can they back it up?   ::)

Haha probably not. So they have much in common with Sorcha Faaal.

;D ;D ;D

I am still interested to find out more about the initial tweets.

Quote from: burntheships on February 15, 2013, 09:49:36 PM
Fun facts! No wonder the light was literally blinding, so much it appeared nuclear!


The meteor was 1/3 the diameter of DA14....and brighter than the sun!

So, imagine then what it might be like to have an asteroid hit the earth?

Lesson here: worry before the Asteroid passes, as the "debris" is ahead of
it. Oh, yes and this fireball was not related, of course. Of course.

We thinks this got buried and somehow missed... :o

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=3585.msg51398#msg51398


Does everyone think this one was flying solo?   :P

Great thread and excellent work and findings on the updated commentary of the last 24 hours.

Certainly was an unexpected event to see the meteorite land..

Still unsure what to make of it... was it created by a Star wars intervention, Alien activity or just part of the passing asteroid or something else.

Another news article to add...

http://news.yahoo.com/asteroid-buzzes-misses-earth-unlike-meteor-192941584.html

HEY!!! Anyone in Russia out hunting rocks...

...send me a piece will ya?


8)

Alex Jones comments on the meteor strike..

Ref the Alex Jones thread..

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1483.msg51485;topicseen#new

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Hi Thor Anderson, 

As you probably have heard, today, February 15th, a 150-foot (45 meter) asteroid is whizzing by the Earth a hair's breath from the surface.  Missing us by only 14,000 miles, well within the 22,300 mile orbit of the Geostationary satellites that orbit around the Earth's equator.  

I wanted to put this in perspective for you with some of the chilling and fascinating facts (http://www.planetaryresources.com/2013/02/future-asteroid-mining-industry-will-provide-capability-to-aid-the-deflection-of-potentially-hazardous-objects-near-earth/?utm_source=Interested+in+Planetary+Resources&utm_campaign=56f20b1283-AsteroidImpact2013-02-14&utm_medium=email):

   1.   This is approximately the same size as the asteroid that hit the Earth in Russia in Siberia (the "Tunguska Event") on June 30th 1908.
      
   2.   That impact was equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs & knocked down 80 million trees down over an area covering 2,150 square kilometers (830 sq mi).
       
   3.   Had it hit near a population center it would have killed millions of people.
       
Today, there are approximately 610,000 asteroids that are actively tracked in our Solar System.  

This number represents less than one percent of the more than 60 million asteroids that orbit the Sun. 
 
To learn more about the threat that these asteroids pose and what Planetary Resources, Inc. and the Asteroid Mining industry can do to help protect the Earth, CLICK HERE (http://www.planetaryresources.com/2013/02/future-asteroid-mining-industry-will-provide-capability-to-aid-the-deflection-of-potentially-hazardous-objects-near-earth/?utm_source=Interested+in+Planetary+Resources&utm_campaign=56f20b1283-AsteroidImpact2013-02-14&utm_medium=email).
 
-Chris Lewicki
President & Chief Asteroid Miner
Planetary Resources, Inc.


Question:

The number being sanctified by NASA is 17, 239 miles.

Not to quibble, but does anyone else have information differing from NASA?

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Today, there are approximately 610,000 asteroids that are actively tracked in our Solar System. This number represents less than one percent of the more than 60 million asteroids that orbit the Sun.

Of these Asteroids, about 1.5 Million are larger than 1 kilometer in size and are what might be described as "Extinction-level / dinosaur killing asteroids."

Today Scientists are closely tracking 434 asteroids which are large enough, and come close enough to the Earth to be of potential future concern, and while none of these pose any significant risk today, increased surveillance is required.

The following video produced by Cosmographia and the team at Planetary shows how over the past 15 years, we have started to discover asteroids at an astounding rate, going from 33,000 known in 1997, to nearly 610,000 known today.


'434 asteroids out of 1.5 million' (admitted to - IMHO not an exact number by any stretch of the imagination)  :o

The 'larger than 1 kilometer' sure gives a lot of wriggle room, considering the documented damage attributed to smaller ones encountering planet Earth.    :P

Do you have the latest rage in T-shirts?

Wow. :o

If you consider all the junk we have flying around up there, it's pretty amazing we don't lose a satellite every few weeks:

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::)

How close was the 'near miss' of 2012 DA14?


From Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_DA14) today:

2012 DA14 is a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of 50 meters (160 ft) and an estimated mass of 190,000 metric tons.[4]

It was discovered on February 23, 2012, by the Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra, Granada in Spain (J75)[1] seven days after passing 0.0174 AU (2,600,000 km; 1,620,000 mi) from Earth.[3]

Calculations show that on February 15, 2013, the distance between the asteroid and the center-point of Earth was 0.0002276 AU (34,050 km; 21,160 mi).[3] The asteroid passed 27,700 km (17,200 mi) from the surface of Earth.[2]

This is a record close approach for a known object of this size.[2]


2013 passage
On January 9, 2013, the asteroid was observed again by Las Campanas Observatory and the observation arc increased from 79 days to 321 days.[7] It now is known that on February 15, 2013 at 19:25 Universal Time, the asteroid passed at a distance of 0.0002276 AU (34,050 km; 21,160 mi) from the center-point of Earth,[3] with an uncertainty region of about 0.0000001 AU (15 km; 9.3 mi).[3]

It passed 27,743 kilometers (17,239 mi) above Earth's surface,[2] closer than satellites in geosynchronous orbit.[2] It was not visible to the naked eye,[8] but it briefly peaked at an apparent magnitude of roughly 7.2.[5] The best observation location for the closest approach was Indonesia.[2] Eastern Europe, Asia, and Australia also were well situated from which to observe the asteroid during its closest approach.[2]

The asteroid was not expected to pass any closer than 1950 km to any satellites.[9]

Goldstone Observatory will observe 2012 DA14 with radar from February 16 to February 20.[4]

The close approach to Earth reduced the orbital period of 2012 DA14 from 368 days to 317 days,[2][10] and perturbed it from the Apollo class to the Aten class of near-Earth asteroids.[2] Its next notable close approach to Earth will be on 15 February 2046 when it will pass no closer than 0.01 AU (1,500,000 km; 930,000 mi) from the center-point of Earth.[3]

The asteroid had no risk of impacting Earth on February 15, 2013.[8][6] The uncertainty region of 2012 DA14 during planetary encounters is well determined through 2134.[3]

   •   2012 DA14 was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 16 February 2013.[11]
   •   It is estimated that there are more than a million near-Earth asteroids smaller than 100 meters.[12]

It is estimated that, if it were to impact Earth, it would enter the atmosphere at a speed of 12.7 km/s, would have a kinetic energy equivalent to 3.5 megatons of TNT,[6] and would produce an air burst with the equivalent of 2.9 megatons of TNT[13] at an altitude of roughly 8.5 kilometers (28,000 ft).[13]

The Tunguska event has been estimated at 3?20 megatons.[14] Asteroids of approximately 50 meters in diameter are expected to impact Earth once every 1200 years or so.[15] Asteroids larger than 35 meters across can pose a threat to a town or city.[16]

Hi Thor Anderson -

You may have heard of the meteorite that struck the Russian Chelyabinsk region at about 09:15 local time in the region about 1,500 km (930 miles) east of Moscow in the Ural mountains.  The damage caused by the shock wave has been extensive.  As reports continue to stream in, the number of people injured has been increasingly steadily and nears 1,000, mostly caused by window glass blown out by the shockwave.  The amateur videos and pictures illustrate the power that a small object entering the atmosphere at high speed can have.

Estimated at about 10 tons, and about 2 meters across, this object (called a bolide when they are this bright) streaked through the sky at a speed of  54,000 kph (33,000 mph), and due to the extreme forces of atmospheric entry, broke apart between 30-50 km (18-32 miles) above the ground.   

Despite the coincident timing, the Russian meteorite has nothing to do with 2012 DA14, as the objects have decidedly different trajectories.  A fragment from 2012 DA14 would have been moving from south to north, the path of the meteorite is from northeast to southwest.  We will certainly learn more about the nature of this object when fragments from it are recovered and studied in laboratories.

In our previous update (http://www.planetaryresources.com/2013/02/planetary-resources-arkyd-100-spacecraft-to-assist-in-early-detection-and-characterization-of-near-earth-asteroids/?utm_source=Interested+in+Planetary+Resources&utm_campaign=bc3c8f78f8-AsteroidImpact2013-02-14&utm_medium=email), we mentioned that many asteroids pass by Earth with little or no warning. We were not exaggerating.  Despite considerable progress in asteroid detection, only about one in ten close-approaching asteroids are known about ahead of time. While not every approaching asteroid may be detected, and with little warning not all can be prevented, in this case a little warning would have prevented many injuries, and quelled the panic that followed.

Today's events, both with 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteorite, are a reminder that our Solar System is a crowded place. Today was unnerving indeed, and scary and unfortunate for those near Chelyabinsk.  We don't know when the next one of these might appear, but we're working to see it coming!

Be sure to watch the many live events (http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86e5e3fd66ecbdeda82b09373&id=bd78934bae&e=0bcc4df594) going on today as 2012 DA14 safely passes by, and take the opportunity to learn more about these asteroids that are potentially hazardous, but potentially rich reserves of resources for our future prosperity on Earth and in space.

-Chris Lewicki
President & Chief Asteroid Miner

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Are we the only ones to recognize the groundwork being done here?

Recall that the other company, Deep Space Industries (http://deepspaceindustries.com/team/), laid their groundwork here (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=3585.msg51345#msg51345) previously covered in this thread.

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Quote from: thorfourwinds on February 16, 2013, 01:43:57 AM
We thinks this got buried and somehow missed... :o

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=3585.msg51398#msg51398


Does everyone think this one was flying solo?   :P

Nice catch Thor,

Cuba, Califiornia, and Japan sightings as well...
The Astonomers may indeed not know everything.

What are the odds?

From the other thread

Quote from: ArMaP on February 16, 2013, 01:53:26 PM
It's possible but I think it's less likely than they didn't see it coming, spotting such relatively small objects moving at such a high speed is very unlikely, even when they are looking for them.

Well if they didn't know it was coming, then why were they able to scrabble to shoot it down as early reports told us? And why were so many people ready with cameras? :P

Small? This was one third the size of DA14... NORAD tracks every piece of space debris over 1" in size.

With all those thousand of high tech satellites out there that can spot a license plate on Earth your telling me we cannot see a rock half the size of a football field?

Quote from: burntheships on February 16, 2013, 07:22:22 PM
Cuba, Califiornia, and Japan sightings as well...
The Astonomers may indeed not know everything.
What are the odds?

Fireball/Meteor Over Japan Day Before Asteroid 2012DA14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2Mypgv4Dg

Great work, Thor!

QuoteEstimated at about 10 tons, and about 2 meters across, this object (called a bolide when they are this bright)

Darn it, i thought they meant it was shaped like a Ferrari :P

No, seriously, i'm that thick ;)

QuoteAre we the only ones to recognize the groundwork being done here?

Since i saw that post about the solar powered phased laser array, i realised it could become both a means of defense, and for mining, I.E. cutting up asteroids.

I think it's a fantabulous idea, since it would rid earth of dangerous objects, and harvest rare minerals at the same time.
From what i read, even the water content is desirable...

OK so who gets to steer the lasers?

Uh-oh....

Hi Z :)

QuoteSmall? This was one third the size of DA14... NORAD tracks every piece of space debris over 1" in size.

With all those thousand of high tech satellites out there that can spot a license plate on Earth your telling me we cannot see a rock half the size of a football field?

Kind of my thoughts exactly, especially the military stuff, but we resolved that by deciding they don't look upward ::)

One thing seems to bug me, it is common knoweledge that a large meteorite carries a bunch of smaller ones along with it.

But it appears that the russian (cuban, egyptian, japanese) one(s) came from a different direction than DA2012etc.
Can anyone confirm this?

No smaller objects preceding / following DAwhatever...?

Here is a translated section from a Dutch newspaper columnist today (Saturday)regarding the asteroid:

Quote'Good morning, phew!, what a night that was, we went through the eye of a needle there, the difference was less than 27,000 kilometers!'
'In Russia it turned out differently'
'No, that had nothing to do with it, that was space debris. Empty vodka bottles chucked out of the ISS, what else can you do with it?'
'It's about time they put those glass containers in space, Andre Kuipers {Dutch atronaut} could empty them'

:D :D :D :D >:(

ETA: Thor, extra gold for adding 'asteroids' on page 2, i love that game!

Comic Relief Intermission....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iez6tqWDyA

 Mysterious 'ball of fire' over Calif.

Hours after a meteor explodes over Russia, San Francisco residents claim they saw a blue light.


Bright streak of light reported over Calif.



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth, residents in California reported seeing an unusual flash of light over the San Francisco Bay area that left many startled and thrilled.

Based on reports, the light streaking in the Northern California sky was a sporadic meteor, or fireball, and not a major event, said Mike Hankey, operations manager for the American Meteor Society, based in Genesee, N.Y. The group recorded at least 35 reports of the event, he said.

"Fireballs happen every single night, all around the world," he said.

Experts say smaller meteorites hit earth five to 10 times a year but chances of a large meteor passing, such as the one that streaked over Chelyabinsk, Russia, are much rarer. Another meteor landed in the Bay Area in October and caused a loud sonic boom, a sound that could have been from the meteor traveling faster than the speed of sound, officials said at the time.

Another meteor that exploded April 22 was seen over a large part of Northern California and Nevada.

On Friday, the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland also reported receiving calls describing what appeared to be a fireball flying west around 8 p.m.

Jonathan Braidman, an instructor at the center, described the object based off reports as likely being a small piece of an asteroid that "somehow" got on a collision course with the earth.

"This is a very common occurrence," Braidman said. "What is uncommon is that it's so close to where people are living."

Bay Area media outlets reported the fireball was reported seen from an area stretching from Gilroy, about 80 miles south of San Francisco, to Sacramento, about 90 miles to the northeast.

One viewer told television station NBC11 the object appeared bluish in color and appeared to be heading straight to the ground. San Leandro resident Krizstofer Loid told KTVU-TV that he was sitting on a lawn chair in the backyard of his home when he saw the object.

"I saw, like, a blue streak from the sky coming down. I thought it was fireworks, but I didn't hear any sounds," he said.

The center's large telescopes did not pick up the object during a stargazing event, astronomer Gerald McKeegan told KGO-TV.

"The media attention on the Russian thing got people's attention, so they're more likely to notice things in the sky," said Mike Hankey, operations manager of the American Meteor Society.

While Friday night's fireball received a lot of attention in the San Francisco Bay area, Braidman notes about 15,000 tons of debris from asteroids enter the earth's atmosphere every year.

"Usually these things break up into small pieces and are difficult to find," he said.



http://news.yahoo.com/bright-streak-light-reported-over-calif-155742051.html

Published on Feb 15, 2013

Alert! Meteorite Explosion - Russia 15 Feb 2013

From RT: http://rt.com/news/russia-meteor-mete...
The Russian Urals region has been stricken by a sudden cosmic attack. Unidentified flying objects exploded over several major cities, including Chelyabinsk, where the blast waves blew out windows and disrupted mobile connections.??­The Emergency Ministry said the incident was caused by a shower of meteorite debris. Unconfirmed reports suggested that a meteorite was shot down by Russian air defenses. Multiple dashboard videos appeared online, showing huge fireballs flying over buildings and exploding with a strong blast. A local zinc factory was the worst-hit, with some of its walls collapsed.


TIMELINE:

9:07 GMT: "The object could be about a meter in diameter and weigh a few tons," said Valeriy Shuvalov of the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics. "As it entered the atmosphere, it broke into a cloud of pieces that flew on, creating a blast wave and emitting light. That's where the flashes came from, as well as broken windows. Most of the object's material evaporated, the remaining pieces slowed down and fell. It was most likely of iron nature as it penetrated so far through the atmosphere. However, we still don't have the exact data on the debris."

8:56 GMT: The Chelyabinsk regional governor reported that an emergency team discovered that a meteorite fell into a lake near the town of Chebarkul.

8:49 GMT: The number of people requesting medical assistance has risen to 500.

8:30 GMT: Residents of Chelyabinsk buy out plastic wrap to screen the windows blown off by the meteor shower blast wave, as temperatures are expected to fall to -14°C at night.

­8:20 GMT: More than 400 people have requested medical attention for minor injuries after a meteor shower hit the Russian Urals region. The number of injured may change, police said.

­8:10 GMT: Oleg Malkov, an aerospace scientist at Moscow State University, told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the meteorite went undetected by space scanners, likely because it was coming from the direction of the Sun. "We can only register stones coming from the direction of the night sky," he explained. Malkov confirmed that the meteor shower in the Urals was not connected to the 2012DA14 asteroid that will approach Earth in a few hours.

7:30 GMT: ­The number of people seeking medical attention has risen to 150.

NASA Invents Explanation For Recent Fireball Cluster: It's 'Fireball Season'

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QuoteSaturday, February 16, 2013 18:33


The meteor which exploded over the Urals of central Russia was seen by Meteosat-9, at the edge of the satellite view. Hundreds of people were reportedly injured as the meteor's massive sonic boom caused widespread damage. Image taken Feb. 15, 2013, 3:15 UTC.

Astronomer Ian Holliday studied photographic records of roughly a thousand fireballs from the 1970s and 80s, finding what looked like a fireball stream crossing Earth's orbit during February, late summer and fall. Halliday's results are somewhat controversial, but the phenomenon appears real.

The meteor which exploded over the Urals of central Russia was seen by Meteosat-9, at the edge of the satellite view. Hundreds of people were reportedly injured as the meteor's massive sonic boom caused widespread damage.

It's fireball season on Earth, and it is starkly clear for residents in eastern Russia where a bright fireball exploded in the atmosphere early today (Feb. 15).

Comment: The only sense in which it is 'Fireball Season' is that these next few months and years are going to see a whole lot more fireballs than usual.

For reasons scientists don't quite understand, there appears to be an increase in the number of bright meteors visible blazing through the night sky during the month of February. The notion hit home today when a meteor exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, injuring more than 900 people and damaging thousands of buildings, according to press reports. (Another space rock, the asteroid 2012DA14, is on course to pass very close to Earth Friday evening, but will not hit the planet.)

Comment: Yes, they noticed a string of bright fireballs in February last year, so they invented the term 'February Fireballs.' But then bright fireballs continued to appear so they called the next cluster the 'April Fireballs', and so on. They won't just come straight out and tell you that fireballs are increasing all the time.

http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/02/nasa-invents-explanation-for-recent-fireball-cluster-its-fireball-season-2454506.html

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Yup NASA actually said that  LOL

Spring is Fireball Season

March 31, 2011: What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun.

And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors.

"Spring is fireball season," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Center. "For reasons we don't fully understand, the rate of bright meteors climbs during the weeks around the vernal equinox."

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A spring fireball recorded by a NASA all-sky camera located at the Marshall Space Flight Center on March 16, 2009.

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In other seasons, a person willing to watch the sky from dusk to dawn could expect to see around 10 random or "sporadic" fireballs. A fireball is a meteor brighter than the planet Venus. Earth is bombarded by them as our planet plows through the jetsam and flotsam of space--i.e., fragments of broken asteroids and decaying comets that litter the inner solar system.

In spring, fireballs are more abundant. Their nightly rate mysteriously climbs 10% to 30%.

"We've known about this phenomenon for more than 30 years," says Cooke. "It's not only fireballs that are affected. Meteorite falls--space rocks that actually hit the ground--are more common in spring as well1."

Researchers who study Earth's meteoroid environment have never come up with a satisfactory explanation for the extra fireballs. In fact, the more they think about it, the stranger it gets.

Consider the following:
Spring Fireballs

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A NASA fireball camera at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

There is a point in the heavens called the "apex of Earth's way." It is, simply, the direction our planet is traveling. As Earth circles the sun, the apex circles the heavens, completing one trip through the Zodiac every year.

The apex is significant because it is where sporadic meteors are supposed to come from. If Earth were a car, the apex would be the front windshield. When a car drives down a country road, insects accumulate on the glass up front. Ditto for meteoroids swept up by Earth.

Every autumn, the apex climbs to its highest point in the night sky. At that time, sporadic meteors of ordinary brightness are seen in abundance, sometimes dozens per night.

Read that again: Every autumn.

"Autumn is the season for sporadic meteors," says Cooke. "So why are the sporadic fireballs peaking in spring? That is the mystery."

Meteoroid expert Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario notes that "some researchers think there might be an intrinsic variation in the meteoroid population along Earth's orbit, with a peak in big fireball-producing debris around spring and early summer. We probably won't know the answer until we learn more about their orbits2."

To solve this and other puzzles, Cooke is setting up a network of smart meteor cameras around the country to photograph fireballs and triangulate their orbits. As explained in the Science@NASA story What's Hitting Earth?, he's looking for places to put his cameras; educators are encouraged to get involved. Networked observations of spring fireballs could ultimately reveal their origin.

"It might take a few years to collect enough data," he cautions.

Until then, it's a beautiful mystery. Go out and enjoy the night sky. It is spring, after all.

See the ScienceCast of this story on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssMdlTbvHJk

Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/31mar_springfireballs/

NASA's All Sky Fireball Network

They even have a PATCH  :o

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"What was that bright light in the sky last night?"

Intro:  The NASA All-sky Fireball Network is a network of cameras set up by the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) with the goal of observing meteors brighter than the planet Venus, which are called fireballs.  The collected data will be used by the MEO in constructing models of the meteoroid environment, which are important to spacecraft designers.

Network:  The network currently consists of 8 cameras, 6 of which are placed in locations in north Alabama, north Georgia, southern Tennessee, and southern North Carolina.  The remaining 2 are located in southern New Mexico. The network is growing all the time, with plans to place a total of 15 cameras in schools, science centers, and planetaria in the United States, predominantly east of the Mississippi River, where there are few such systems. 

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Cameras:  Cameras in the network are specialized black and white video cameras with lenses that allow for a view of the whole night sky overhead.

Data:  The cameras have overlapping fields of view, which means that the same fireball can be detected by more than one camera.  This allows us to calculate the height of the fireball and how fast it is going.  We can even work out the orbit of the meteoroid responsible for creating the fireball, which gives us clues about whether it came from a comet or an asteroid.  If the fireball is traveling slow enough, and makes it low enough, it is possible that it can survive to the ground as a meteorite.

This website:  This website displays fireball data in the form of images, movies, diagrams, and text files.  The data is organized by date.  Click on a date in the list on the left to see the fireballs detected that night.  If the page appears blank that means no fireballs were detected, probably because of bad weather. The website is automatically updated every morning at 8:00 am Central Time.  Only the last 3 weeks of data is available online.

For more information, contact Dr. Bill Cooke or check out the MEO website.

http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/index.html

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Dr. Bill Cooke, Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, Dr. Rob Suggs. Image Credit: NASA

Meteoroid Environment Office

About MEO  The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) is the NASA organization responsible for meteoroid environments pertaining to Spacecraft engineering and operations. The MEO leads NASA technical work on the meteoroid environment and coordinates the existing meteoroid expertise at NASA centers.

The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) was established by the NASA Headquarters Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) in October of 2004 as the NASA organization responsible for meteoroid environments pertaining to spacecraft engineering and operations. Its creation is the result of various NASA panel recommendations and recent Leonid meteor storms.

The MEO is located at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Organizationally, it is part of the Natural Environments Branch (EV44) – a component of the Space & Vehicle Systems Department of the Engineering Directorate. The MEO is the first official NASA meteoroid program since the Johnson Space Center meteoroid group was disbanded in 1970.

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/aboutMEO-rd.html

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Photo Credit: Annie Henderson
This Is Somerset UK

QuoteCaptured over the Avalon Marshes nature reserve at Shapwick Heath last Wednesday, these pictures of a curious light in the sky have many people baffled.

The pictures were snapped at the bird sanctuary by Annie Henderson who lives on the Somerset Levels.

Unlike the usual blobs of light, which can be explained away as the contrails of distant jet aircraft, Chinese sky lanterns, weather balloons or passing satellites, the distant light appears to be burning up with flaming gases shooting off its form.
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/UFO-spotted-Avalon-Marshes-similar-meteor/story-18157644-detail/story.html#ixzz2L7AQZdoP

There are 14 photos there at the site, I embedded only the first one to show the object.
Photos were reportedly taken with a Sony DSLR camera.
This is curious, if this was another meteor, that would add UK to the list,
along with Russia, Cuba, Japan, and California.

Oh, how the experts scramble....

NASA has confirmed the meteor skyfall in Russia was
actually a small asteroid and not a meteorite due to the
size and mass of the object.

Quote
At a news conference Friday, NASA scientists said the object that exploded over Russia was a "tiny asteroid" that measured roughly 45 feet across, weighed about 10,000 tons and traveled about 40,000 mph.

The object vaporized roughly 15 miles above the surface of the Earth, causing a shock wave that triggered the global network of listening devices that was  established to detect nuclear test explosions.

The force of the explosion measured between 300 and 500 kilotons, equivalent to a modern nuclear bomb, according to Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-russian-tiny-asteroid-20130215,0,5424522.story?track=rss

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There are 14 photos there at the site, I embedded only the first one to show the object.

Actually if you look at them most are the same photo just cropped differently.

That is an airplane contrail at sunset... I see them most every night out here.

Seems everyone has dash cams these days cept me :(  but then I need a dash first :P

Shooting Star (Meteor) across San Francisco 2/15/2013 7:44PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLpTOc1i8_8

Bright Streak Lights Fla. Night Sky

Quote South Floridians who happened to be looking in the right place at the right time Sunday night saw one spectacular light show – likely a sporadic meteor.

The Coast Guard began getting flooded with phone calls about 7:30 p.m., with reports of folks seeing flare-like objects from Jacksonville to Key West, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Sabrina Laberdesque.

People called in, describing the flares "as orange or red fireballs in the sky," Laberdesque said. The display was limited to the sky: No injuries were reported, Laberdesque said.

Based on reports, the streak across the Florida sky was likely a sporadic meteor, essentially a rocky object that comes from the asteroid belt, said Mike Hankey, operations manager for the American Meteor Society, based in Genesee, N.Y.

The group logged 27 reports within about the first two hours of the event, he said.

"This is a lot of reports to come in quickly," Hankey said. Gauging by the reports, it happened somewhere over the ocean.

"These fireballs are common," Hankey said. "It's rare for any one person to see one more than once or twice in their lifetime. But on any given night, it might happen somewhere in the globe a few times in a day."

Quote The Coast Guard said it suspects it was a meteor shower, but Hankey said that was unlikely.

"Meteor showers usually are much dimmer and faster moving," Hankey said.

There are no active major meteor showers going on right now, because according to a calendar, the next window for such a shower would be in mid-April, he said. 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50843785/ns/local_news-miami_fl/#.USGXFNj5mSp

Don't ya just LOVE 'experts'? LOL and on the same page they are reporting the Russian hit and those in California.  "according to the calendar"  BWAHAHAHAHA

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"These fireballs are common," 

Hankey said. "It's rare for any one person to see one more than once or twice in their lifetime. But on any given night, it might happen somewhere in the globe a few times in a day."

Hankey added: "People should not be scared of the sky falling or anything at all."


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NASA scientists say the object that exploded over Russia on Friday was a "tiny asteroid."
(Associated Press / February 15, 2013)


Russian 'meteor' was actually a tiny asteroid, NASA says - latimes.com (http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-russian-tiny-asteroid-20130215,0,5424522.story?track=rss)

QuoteAt a news conference Friday, NASA scientists said the object that exploded over Russia was a "tiny asteroid" that measured roughly 45 feet across, weighed about 10,000 tons and traveled about 40,000 mph.

The object vaporized roughly 15 miles above the surface of the Earth, causing a shock wave that triggered the global network of listening devices that was  established to detect nuclear test explosions.

The force of the explosion measured between 300 and 500 kilotons, equivalent to a modern nuclear bomb, according to Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

"When you hear about injuries, those are undoubtedly due to the events of the shock striking the city and causing walls to collapse and glass to fly, not due to fragments striking the ground," Cooke said.

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QuoteThe fact that the asteroid hit on the same day that the world was anticipating the close flyby of a larger asteroid, 2012 DA14,

was an extraordinary coincidence.

The smaller asteroid was traveling in a very different trajectory and much more quickly than DA14, indicating they were not related, according to Paul Chodas, research scientist in the Near-Earth Object Program office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. 
...
?"I would call this a tiny asteroid," Chodas said. "This is the largest recorded event since the Tunguska explosion in 1908." That event, which may have involved a meteor, leveled more than 800 square miles of forest in Russia.
...
NASA leads international efforts to track much larger, asteroid-size objects, and Chodas said the agency had identified 95% of them. It's the smaller ones that pose a problem. "They are very difficult to find," he said.

The criminalization
of aerosol cheese products
solves Global Warming...


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The Myoshi Effect: Jim Yoakum: 9781479234677: Amazon.com: Books (http://www.amazon.com/The-Myoshi-Effect-Jim-Yoakum/dp/1479234672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361199537&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Myoshi+Effect)

Book Description
Publication Date: September 27, 2012
The year is 2020. Can the President of the United States of America, and the President of the United Blue States of America, come together in order stop a giant asteroid before it destroys Earth in one month's time?

Who IS the mysterious Doctor Apophis?

What is the "S.U.R.", and why is the President if the USA determined to defend it at all costs?

Why the hell is the Canadian army in North Dakota?

And what is... "The Myoshi Effect"?


JIM YOAKUM (http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Yoakum/e/B000AR8AVO/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0) has been a professional writer for over thirty years. He is the author of non-fiction books, novels and is the screenwriter of three produced films. He has contributed articles to numerous magazines, websites and periodicals including Rolling Stone, The Onion and Goldmine. He was former writing partners with the late Graham Chapman of Monty Python and is U.S. Curator of the Graham Chapman Archives. He is also a professional musician. Some of his other writings can be seen at thearchivest.wordpress.com.

by John Macneill

Space-based weapons have exceptionally disparate advantages and disadvantages: They are extremely powerful and difficult to defend against, but they're also expensive to launch and maintain and they're in constant motion above the Earth. John Macneill


This technology is very far out—in miles and years. A pair of satellites orbiting several hundred miles above the Earth would serve as a weapons system. One functions as the targeting and communications platform while the other carries numerous tungsten rods—up to 20 feet in length and a foot in diameter—that it can drop on targets with less than 15 minutes' notice.

When instructed from the ground, the targeting satellite commands its partner to drop one of its darts. The guided rods enter the atmosphere, protected by a thermal coating, traveling at 36,000 feet per second—comparable to the speed of a meteor. The result: complete devastation of the target, even if it's buried deep underground. (The two-platform configuration permits the weapon to be "reloaded" by just launching a new set of rods, rather than replacing the entire system.)???

The concept of kinetic-energy weapons has been around ever since the RAND Corporation proposed placing rods on the tips of ICBMs in the 1950s; the satellite twist was popularized by sci-fi writer Jerry Pournelle. Though the Pentagon won't say how far along the research is, or even confirm that any efforts are underway, the concept persists.




The U.S. Air Force Transformation Flight Plan (http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/af/af_trans_flightplan_nov03.pdf), published by the Air Force in November 2003, references "hypervelocity rod bundles" in its outline of future space-based weapons, and in 2002, another report from RAND, Space Weapons, Earth Wars (http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1209.html), dedicated entire sections to the technology's usefulness.??

If so-called "Rods from God"—an informal nickname of untraceable origin—ever do materialize, it won't be for at least 15 years. Launching heavy tungsten rods into space will require substantially cheaper rocket technology than we have today.

But there are numerous other obstacles to making such a system work. Pike, of GlobalSecurity.org, argues that the rods' speed would be so high that they would vaporize on impact, before the rods could penetrate the surface. Furthermore, the "absentee ratio"—the fact that orbiting satellites circle the Earth every 100 minutes and so at any given time might be far from the desired target—would be prohibitive.

A better solution, Pike argues, is to pursue the original concept: Place the rods atop intercontinental ballistic missiles, which would slow down enough during the downward part of their trajectory to avoid vaporizing on impact. ICBMs would also be less expensive and, since they're stationed on Earth, would take less time to reach their targets.






"The space-basing people seem to understand the downside of space weapons," Pike says—among them, high costs and the difficulty of maintaining weapon platforms in orbit. "But I'll still bet you there's a lot of classified work on this going on right now."


And this from rense.com:


Did God Rods Cause A US Space Weapon,  Not Meteors, To Hit Russia And Cuba? (http://rense.com/general95/godrods.html)

The Western media cover-up, promoted by so-called "meteor experts" planted by the military complex, tells of a fantastic meteorite striking Russia's Urals region, while trying to ignore a second spectacular space disaster in Cuba, which occurred just hours later.

 A pair of massive meteorites, each brighter than the Sun, has never been recorded before in the entire history of astral chronologies. Obviously, the bus-size objects that fell from the sky are man-made and not freaks of nature.

 While it is too early yet for a conclusive determination, one scenario can explain the twin disasters, and that is a free fall of a U.S. Air Force orbital weapons platform loaded with super-heavy "God Rods". A dual-cabin space-based bomber likely caused the falsely attributed X"meteorite" hits on Russia's Urals region and, just hours later, on Cuban territory. In both cases, witnesses and videophone images showed "bus-shaped" objects "brighter than the Sun" falling to Earth in regions halfway around the world from each other.

 Rods from God

 God Rods are the ultimate bunker busters, which strike with Luciferian power despite their name, which came no doubt from the apocalyptic corps of evangelical graduates of the Air Force Academy. To prepare a God Rod assault on Iran's hardened nuclear bunkers, the USAF dual-chamber orbital ship would be positioned into a slower near-geostationary orbit over the Caspian Sea.

 The Rods from God are depleted uranium rods sheathed in a ceramic foam shell, which prevents friction-caused searing vaporization during re-entry. The DU rods rely on kinetic energy from gravity acceleration reaching supersonic speeds along a close-to vertical trajectory. Upon impact with the Earth's surface, the ceramic shell is shattered into powder, while the DU becomes a red-hot searing liquid fire that burns through rock and concrete. Turning into dust and gas, the depleted uranium will ignite the air inside any bunker or tunnel, creating shock waves that cause  the roof to cave in.

 A test drop of a God Rod probably caused the seismic blast and destruction of an underground Iranian nuclear lab in late January.

 What Goes Up

 One problem of near-geostationary orbit, however, is the massive weight of the God Rod canisters aboard the space bus. With the slightest miscalculation of minimum orbital momentum, the space-based weapons platform tumbles into free fall.

 Plummeting to Earth along an oscillating parabolic path, the astro-soldiers aboard the USAF weapons platform would have to decouple the weapons-carrying cabin from the command module. Presumably the crew boarded an escape pod, the blue streak seen by San Franciscans, which landed at sea in the Gulf or Atlantic. Their fate will never be revealed to the public, despite the loud claims from the United States of being a democracy with information transparency in contrast to evil dictatorships.

 It was probably the weapons cabin that hit the Russian Urals, a region with a dozen nuclear research reactors around the Chelyabinsk nuclear-weapons zone and the large power reactor near Ekaterinaberg. Besides injuring 1,400 people, mainly from flying glass of windows broken by sonic booms, the vaporized DU rods will also add more radiation to the atmosphere, already contaminated by the Fukushima meltdowns, and further degrade the Siberian environment, which is highly radioactive from reckless Soviet strategic weapons testing in the past.

 If the USAF vehicle had smashed into one of the many terrestrial research reactors, a nuclear power station or a warhead facility in the Urals, there would undoubtedly have been a thermonuclear exchange between Russia and the US. A Russian "retaliatory strike" would have destroyed every US military base worldwide and most major cities in America.

 The complacent and amoral American public has tolerated the secret space-based weapons program and so would have no grounds for complaint at the loss of a hundred million or more lives inside their own territory. The rest of the world, of course, would not be so forgiving to the USA for triggering an Armageddon.

 As for the gung-ho evangelical Air Force officer corps, it seems the loss of their space toy means that God must be on the other side of the rod.

 Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of The Japan Times Weekly, is a Hong Kong-based science writer.

Harry Drew
16 hours ago (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200450633689659&set=a.4380663516021.2176368.1271168809&type=1&theater)

NASA UPDATE ON RUSSIAN METEOR ID: IT WAS A SMALL ASTEROID

QuoteLate Friday, NASA revised its estimates on the size and power of the devastating meteor explosion. The meteor's size is now thought to be slightly larger — about 55 feet (17 m) wide — with the power of the blast estimate of about 500 kilotons, 30 kilotons higher than before, NASA officials said in a statement. [See video of the intense meteor explosion]

The meteor was also substantially more massive than thought as well. Initial estimated pegged the space rock's mass at about 7,000 tons. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., now say the meteor weighed about 10,000 tons and was traveling 40,000 mph (64,373 km/h) when it exploded.

"These new estimates were generated using new data that had been collected by five additional infrasound stations located around the world - the first recording of the event being in Alaska, over 6,500 kilometers away from Chelyabinsk," JPL officials explained in the statement. The infrasound stations detect low-frequency sound waves that accompany exploding meteors, known as bolides.

Eleven infrasound stations around the world recorded the meteor blast above Russian on Friday

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enF5C2VdSw

Huge Blasts From Meteor - Impact Or More Weapons?



This is interesting:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-d8_RbQuQ

Super Meteor makes huge Crater in Russia | 15.02.2013 - YouTube
Published on Feb 15, 2013

The Footage seems to be fake, the Journalists of the Russian TV Channel made a fail here, and showed footage of the Derweze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze).


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...and picked up here ...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajSG2Y1XgU

Video- Imagenes del Crater dejado por Meteorito en Cheliabinsk, Rusia- IMPRESIONANTE 15-02-2013 - YouTube


From Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze):
The Derweze area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas.[1] The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of 70 metres (230 ft) at 40°15?10?N 58°26?22?E. To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided the best solution was to burn it off.[2] Geologists had hoped the fire would use all the fuel in a matter of days, but the gas is still burning today. Locals have dubbed the cavern "The Door to Hell".[3]

"The Footage seems to be fake, the Journalists of the Russian TV Channel made a fail here, and showed footage of the Derweze."

Yes, makes me wonder if Sorcha Faal is a Russian disinfo
site, they are the ones starting the rumors.

Comrades.

Finding IED's in ME via GEOS2 IR Scan and RONMONT Process 0001

Joe Resnick

Ron, IMMI-team has commenced analysis of the 'take-down' of the Russian Meteor. It was not (emphasis...NOT) a UFO as shown in the photo's making the trip around the web....'shooting down Russian meteor'. More to follow. Best..

"Infinite Micro-Macro Imaging"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqqR_2I1mE4

Quote from: burntheships on February 18, 2013, 08:22:29 PM
Yes, makes me wonder if Sorcha Faal is a Russian disinfo
site, they are the ones starting the rumors.

No Sorsha is on his own... he just pretends he is a Russian Girl :P

But i forgot to post THIS the other day

IRIS Seismic monitor caught the meteorite impact (or at least the blast) at a 4.0!

15-FEB-2013 03:20:26    55.15    61.41    4.0    0    0    URAL MOUNTAINS REGION, RUSSIA

26/02/2013

Meteorite's Powerful Blast Due to 'Space Collisions' -Scientist | Science | RIA Novosti (http://en.rian.ru/science/20130226/179702650/Meteorites-Powerful-Blast-Due-to-Space-Collisions--Scientist.html)

QuoteMOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – The powerful blast of a meteorite above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk was probably caused by its previous "space collisions" with other celestial bodies, said Professor Erik Galimov of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry.

Fragments of the meteorite were taken to the institute's lab on Monday.

"[The meteorite] experienced collisions in space before entering the atmosphere. Probably, this caused its disintegration, or fragmentation, which later resulted in such a powerful blast. Such blasts to not always occur when meteors fall," Galimov said.

He said that findings made by experts in Moscow confirmed preliminary results of the meteorite's test in a lab of the Urals Federal University.

Windows were shattered and walls were damaged by shockwaves in thousands of mostly residential buildings, as the meteorite streaked through the sky over the Chelyabinsk Region on February 15 and exploded in the atmosphere. Over 1,500 people were injured, most by flying glass shards.

Russian meteorite 1,000 times bigger than originally thought | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/russian-meteorite-1000-times-bigger-than-originally-thought/)

It turns out the meteor that landed in Russia last week was a bit bigger than the 10 tons first reported. About 1,000 times bigger.

When a hunk of rock raced out of the morning skies over Russia on Friday and exploded with nearly 500 kilotons of energy, early size estimates from the Russian Academy of Sciences that were carried by the Associated Press, Reuters and other news wires pegged it on the small size, with a weight of about 10 tons.


'This event was so much bigger than anything we've seen on video that it doesn't surprise me the guess was off by three orders of magnitude.'

- Margaret Campbell-Brown, physics professor at the University of Western Ontario


Later in the evening, after studying infrasound data from stations around the world, NASA released a new estimate revising that first guess upward by a thousand-fold: The meteorite actually weighed closer to 10,000 tons, scientists said -- approximately as much as 170 M1 Abrams tanks. 

"My guess is that someone eyeballed the videos and made an educated guess," said Margaret Campbell-Brown, associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario. "This event was so much bigger than anything we've seen on video that it doesn't surprise me the guess was off by three orders of magnitude."

That poor estimate underscores the daunting task scientists face today: While NASA's Near-Earth Object Program currently tracks about 10,000 objects through the heavens, there are far, far more smaller objects that are simply too tiny to track.

more (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/russian-meteorite-1000-times-bigger-than-originally-thought/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgorhVVbRs


Gang Of Asteroids Approach Earth?
Russian Meteor May Have Followers On Same Path (http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/08/gang-of-asteroids-approach-earth-russian-meteor-may-have-followers-on-same-path-2464028.html)

According to this video just released by Russia Today, the Russian meteor from earlier in the year has a gang of followers, possibly on the very same path, now approaching Earth.

Is THIS what all the FEMA preparation is REALLY about?

If RT knows this, the US government would have to know this too, no?

Why haven't they told us anything?




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1z7D4dOk0U

Skyfall: Russian Meteorite Portends More Disasters? (RT Documentary) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1z7D4dOk0U)

Published on Apr 12, 2013
In mid-February a flaming meteorite,

whose shock wave equaled 20 nuclear bombs,

streaked across the sky and slammed into the central Russian city of Chelyabinsk.

It damaged dozens of buildings and injured hundreds of people.

RT went to central Russia to talk with witnesses and scientists and to find out whether the country should get ready for more such phenomena.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4Bu0AsFco


DA-14 Asteroid Secrets Revealed - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4Bu0AsFco)


Published on Feb 16, 2013
The global news impact of the Russian meteorite has far outstripped the actual physical impact of the object today, reminding us just how quickly information, and potential disinformation, can spread via the internet.

Within minutes of the meteor's impact alternative theories began to circulate that the object seen in the video had been shot down by Russian air defence missiles to prevent further destruction.

The theory seems to have stemmed from a report from the local Znak newspaper, which quoted an anonymous "military source" who claimed that the object was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk.

According to the source, a missile salvo blew the meteorite apart at an altitude of 20 kilometers, scattering burning debris over the region.

Russia Today picked up the report and sent it viral on the internet, adding that

"Regnum news agency quoted a military source who claimed that the vapor condensation trail of the meteorite speaks to the fact that the meteorite was intercepted by air defenses."

In the hours that have passed, the story has been tweeted and retweeted thousands of times. The Russian regional Emergency Ministry has denied that any military air defenses were involved in the incident.

Witnesses in a town 50 kilometers from Chelyabinsk, where the meteor is thought to have hit, said they saw a streaking object suddenly burst into flames, break apart and fall to the ground.

They then described a black cloud had hanging above the town. Witnesses in Chelyabinsk itself said that the air smelled like gunpowder after the object hit. Reactions to the shoot down theory have been mixed, with detractors suggesting no upward missile vapour trail or intercepting object can be seen in the videos, and that it would be impossible to shoot down an object travelling with such speed at the trajectory it approached.

More wide eyed theorists have suggested that the object may not have been a meteor at all and could have been a satellite that was shot down, or some form of kinetic bombardment weapon aimed at Russia.

http://www.infowars.com/russia-shot-down-the-meteor-theory-spreads-online/

Today's Asteroid Flyby a Wakeup Call, Scientists Say | 2012 DA14 | Space.com (http://www.space.com/19803-asteroid-2012-da14-flyby-wakeup-call.html)

Scientists think the Russian fireball was caused by an object weighing about 7,000 tons. For comparison, 2012 DA14 tips the scales at about 140,000 tons. The two space rocks are completely unrelated, NASA researchers said.

Millions of space rocks
Earth has been pummeled by asteroids throughout its 4.5-billion-year history. Perhaps the most famous impact came 65 million years ago, when a 6-mile-wide (10 km) behemoth smashed into our planet and wiped out the dinosaurs (http://www.space.com/19681-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-chicxulub-crater.html).

The good news is that another such catastrophic impact does not appear to be in the offing anytime soon.

NASA researchers have mapped out the paths of more than 90 percent of the near-Earth asteroids at least 0.6 miles (1 km) across, which could threaten human civilization if they hit us. Not one is on a collision course with our planet in the foreseeable future.

But the numbers get worse from there. Observations by NASA's WISE space telescope suggest that about 4,700 asteroids (http://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html) at least 330 feet (100 m) wide come uncomfortably close to our planet at some point in their orbits.

So far, astronomers have spotted less than 30 percent of these large space rocks, which could destroy an area the size of a state if they slammed into Earth.

And they've identified just 1 percent of the objects that are about the size of 2012 DA14 or bigger,

B612 officials have said.

Such asteroids are capable of inflicting serious damage on a local scale, as the "Tunguska Event" illustrates. In 1908, a 130-foot-wide (40 m) asteroid exploded over the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, flattening about 825 square miles (2,137 square km) of forest.

Astronomers think, all together 1 million or more near-Earth asteroids are out there, cruising silently through the dark depths of space. About 9,600 have been discovered to date.

But the numbers get worse from there.

Observations by NASA's WISE space telescope suggest that about 4,700 asteroids (http://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html) at least 330 feet (100 m) wide come uncomfortably close to our planet at some point in their orbits.


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Who was it - von Braun's collegue or secretary... - that predicted that after "terrorists" We'd see "asteroids?"

How much can We really believe, & how much will be blue beam?

Carol rosen?

That was Her name, yes.  So We have the terrorists all set up...and here come the asteroids.

Imagine Blue Beam creating a holographic rock, landing on a location They've put buttloads of explosives on, or otherwise energize to explode...

If I had that power and was psychopathic...  I'd think of doing that.  And I could do it, too.

it was Carol Rosen, Ama; said Von Braun claimed that after the terrorist thing it would be asteriods, then an alien attack/ invasion; we might be fortunate that we live in da hills...


seeker

Yes, indeed!