Rare Event: Meteorites injure people and property in Russia

[rcj]

An event that happened a couple of hours ago!

http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/met ... 29206.html

http://en.ria.ru/science/20130215/17948 ... egion.html

[starfinder]

Remus, you very fast!

More photos and news here, including one photo showing damage to a building:
http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-ural ... binsk-283/

You Tube:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=yo ... u.be&gl=GB

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpEnUcN2Bf ... u.be&gl=GB.

Tks Gary and Jia Hao for the links!

[rcj]

more news unfolding....

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/7-jet ... in-Russia/

[weixing]

Hi,
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... 56/1/.html
http://news.sky.com/story/1052514/meteo ... juring-500

Have a nice day,

[starfinder]

This reminds me of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall in 1947, also in Russia (far east) occuring in the mid-morning:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhote-Alin_meteorite.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=45losqys ... sM3c&gl=GB.

That one was described as bright as the Sun, and today's one seems to have been too.

I have a walnut-sized piece of that iron meteorite (Sikhote-Alin) which I bought at Kinokuniya (Orchard) last year for under a hundred bucks.

But I don't think today's one is comparable to the 1908 Tungkuska Event (also Russia), though CNN is making that comparison.

Am sure pieces of today's meteorite will soon be on the market.

[starfinder]

Oops... this news already posted by Remus in another section:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11749&p=80492#p80492.

Perhaps can merge the two threads.

[weixing]

Hi,
I forget to check the coffee corner sub forum, but I think this topic can be in the general astronomy section.

Have a nice day.

[chrisyeo]

Really amazing. Probably the first large meteor strike that has been captured so extensively on video and pictures.

Really scary to imagine also should ever a Tunguska-sized event happen over a populated city....

[Mariner]

I think we should be more worried about the fact that it came in undetected.

[Airconvent]

10 tonnes. Goodness. That's like the weight of 9 cars. If you compress it into a piece of rock, the size would be about 1-3 m in diameter only. Amazing display of kinetic power.
When I saw that smoke trail in those asteroid disaster movies, it looked so unreal but now I realised the real thing is exactly like that!
BTW, I think the Tunguska object was estimated to be about 100m in diameter and that one exploded in mid air causing a massive shock wave that resulted in the devastation known as the Tunguska event.

<update> Apparently, the latest projection placed the meteorite in the range of around 15m in diameter. I guess my guesstimate was way off !