Meteor in Russia

[3074326]

Some pretty crazy videos of this. These are the two best I've seen so far. I'm sure countless more videos will pop up throughout the morning/day..

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIMKQihoYRI"]Meteorite Falls In Russian Urals Chelyabinsk region UFO? 2/15/2013 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2BYqLpHKT0"]Meteorite Blast In Russia "Raw Video" - YouTube[/ame]

Here's one that shows the trail followed by explosions that break windows:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBsnw3TsQ8"]???????? ? ?????????? 9 ???? 15.02.2013 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[EidoloN]

Holy shit that's crazy!

 

[Mike80]

someone call Bruce Willis!

 

[Mac]

That's crazy!! Did they say how big it was?

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

That's not even close to Ann Arbor. Somebody needs to work on his aim.

 

[AKAK]

That's crazy!! Did they say how big it was?

A couple sources are saying about 10 tons...

Odd thing, when I first saw this on the news this morning (not paying close attention), I was thinking, "Are they sure that was a meteor?" - and this is all kind of second hand info, but, there are in Chelyabinsk, or near there, a lot of very deep Ural mountain lakes, and in these lakes they did a lot of the testing for Soviet submarine missiles, according to a friend of mine, whose father, well, was part of that program, and even into the 90's and 2000's they were still developing those rockets there (and maybe still are, I have no idea) to lauch sattelites as a (potentially) low cost alterntative to land based missile for countries like Brazil, etc. So, my mind went immediately to "whoops!"

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

Is this some debris from the 50 kilometer meteor that was supposed to miss us by 15 minutes?

 

[morbitzerker]

It's wild that the meteor comes so close in proximity to when the asteroid 2012 DA14 passes inside the geosychronous satellites today.

 

[Steve19]

This was a disaster of unparalleled proportion.

It's so clearly marked. How was this mistake made?

 

[3074326]

Is this some debris from the 50 kilometer meteor that was supposed to miss us by 15 minutes?

Unrelated, I think.

 

[buckeyegrad]

People of Chelyabinsk, you have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!

We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.

 

[Buckeneye]

Nothing like reminding me that I could die at any given moment
From random space trash.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Is this some debris from the 50 kilometer meteor that was supposed to miss us by 15 minutes?

50 meter asteroid, not 50 kilometer asteroid.

 

[3074326]

50 meter asteroid, not 50 kilometer asteroid.

Minor difference.

 

[cincibuck]

The Answer is 42 and I've got my towel, watch out for those galactic bulldozers!