Meteorite crash in Russia

  • EqualsThree
    15th Feb 2013 Member 5 Permalink

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI

     

    Fantastic, beautiful.

     

    Although, the shockwave from this thing injured more than 250 people in a nearby city. 

  • Sergeant_Starfruit
    15th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Oh mah Glob! First video I've seen on this, even though I watched the news like two hours ago. :D

  • therocketeer
    15th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    Wow that is truly incredible.. very beautiful
    I don't think there have been any fatalities reported. Which is lucky
  • Box-Poorsoft
    15th Feb 2013 Banned 0 Permalink
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  • therocketeer
    15th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    oh and asteroid DA14 has passed overhead as expected -- not related to the Russian meteor impact, they had different trajectories.
    oh also:
    the meteor weighed 10 tons so that's 9071.8474 kg and traveled at a speed of 33,000 mph = 14752.32 m/s
    so it had
    (9071.8474*14752.32^2)/2= 987,157,363,013.43372288 J = 987157.363013 MJ of energy
    which is alot
    actually that's theoretically 235.936272231 tons of TNT
  • Sergeant_Starfruit
    15th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Oh crap, your good at maths. O.O

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  • dulix11
    15th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Thanks for posting this, because I'm an imbecile I thought it was another video of a UFO crashing...lol

  • NUKEer
    16th Feb 2013 Member 8 Permalink

    Hi there I was there in the Chelyabinsk city center when crash happends XD

    I was in the city university (SUSU (South Ural State University)),near window in the hall, and i wasnt looking at window. Then Then was the powerfull flash, like a sunrise, so i decided that it was sunrise, but after 2-3 secs then flash stops... I thought "Lolwut???? Sun was rising, and then fall down to horizont???" I looked in the window, but didnt see anything. I started to think, what it was, and decided that may be sun ray was reflected from window of nearest building. After near 30 secs since was flash , I heard some explosion sounds, then clouds of dust was flying throw the doors in the hall and from celling, emergency siren was sounding and all moves outside of building. When I was outside, I made some photos of university there.

    When I was outside, i decided that it was nuke, which was exploded in atmosphere, because first flash was so powerfull as sun, and may be more.

    Many windows in the city was destroyd, especially in the city center, some building also was broken (not because some parts of meteor falls there, but for reason of powerfull shockwave). Fallen strusture was a part of one factory and was very old. Here is some photo. \/ There is the smoke from meteor. I saw it in first seconds, when i was outside.

     

     

     

    Take attention on windows, some of them was broken with frames too.

    ^ This is old fallen building

    ^Some buildimgs lost many windows

  • therocketeer
    16th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    @NUKEer (View Post)
    incredible!
    It's good job you didn't get hurt. Those photos truly resemble the magnitude of the meteor strike. I wish I could've been there to see it. You are very fortunate to have witnessed it all