Record Setting Asteroid Flyby

[zorgon]

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

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?



I will be watching tomorrow

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

[stealthyaroura]

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


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

[RUSSO]

6m-crater found at site of alleged fragment crash

The 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/

No pictures yet tho.

[zorgon]

oh hit the "read more" under the vid for awesome pics

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

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

[zorgon]

So what was this that blew up?

[zorgon]

Three meteorite crash sites found in Chelyabinsk

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


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.

"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

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/

[zorgon]

Russian MP blames meteor shower on US secret arms test


Photo: RIA Novosti
Russia's controversial Liberal leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has blamed Americans for today's meteorite scare, local media report.

"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/

[zorgon]

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/

[zorgon]

Another dash cam capture

[robomont]

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

[sky otter]

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.



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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.

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

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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

[thorfourwinds]

What about this one?

Remanzacco Observatory - Comets & Neo: Close Approach of Asteroid 2013 CL22


M.P.E.C. 2013-C24, 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...

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

[thorfourwinds]

For the Record:

Russian Meteor Shower 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.

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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.






















4:40 meter
6:55 Boom!

[thorfourwinds]

Screencaps for the record

[thorfourwinds]

Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured - CNN.com

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 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

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.



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, 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.