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Asteroid Strut

StoneHandsStoneHands 341 Posts
edited February 2013 in Strut Central
No thanks. NASA, get your shit together

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  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    Those Russian dashcams sure come in handy!



    Yikes!!
  • ppadilhappadilha 2,244 Posts
    if only dinosaurs had dashboard cams, then we'd know what happened to them...
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    From Teh interwebs:

    So how did it manage to miss NY?
    Because everything else from space seems to make a bee line for the Big Apple.
  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,483 Posts
    just saw this....thats nutso, the damage it did was pretty crazy as well...
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    All together now

    Aah aah aah aah
    Ooh ooh ooh ooh

    Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
    Buh buh buh

    Ba ba ba ba boowah boowah.....wup
  • JectWonJectWon (@_@) 1,654 Posts
    dj_cityboy said:
    just saw this....thats nutso, the damage it did was pretty crazy as well...

    Wait...what are yall talking about?

    EDIT: OK, I'm seeing it now. I dunno about this one. No major news is picking it up and the time stamps in the videos are all over the place.

    RE:EDIT: Shit might be for real. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE91E05Z20130215?irpc=932
  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,794 Posts
    Shit is most definitely real.

    Slight delay for the sonic boom.





    (4:40 for the flash and 7:00 for the boom)

  • JectWonJectWon (@_@) 1,654 Posts
    Phil Plait is my go to guy when it comes to anything cosmos related.

    Here is his blog. Second entry from the top (as of this posting) covers what he knows about this event.

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html

    If you are interested in getting legit details from someone who knows what they are talking about, I'd suggest checking that link throughout the day.
  • ppadilhappadilha 2,244 Posts
    the explosion videos are even crazier imo




    one overlooked aspect of these dashboard cam videos is how awesome russian radio is
  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,483 Posts
    JectWon said:
    Phil Plait is my go to guy when it comes to anything cosmos related.

    Here is his blog. Second entry from the top (as of this posting) covers what he knows about this event.

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html

    If you are interested in getting legit details from someone who knows what they are talking about, I'd suggest checking that link throughout the day.

    dope link man, thanks for that!
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,133 Posts
    In Russia, sky reach FOR YOU!
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Electrode said:
    In Russia, sky reach FOR YOU!

    Yes!
  • Mr_Lee_PHDMr_Lee_PHD 2,042 Posts
    The sonic boom came about 4 minutes behind the meteor...

    Can anyone calculate how fast that thing was travelling?
  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,483 Posts
    this is what i have read about the speed of it...

    at approximately 09:15 local time (03:15 UTC),[ a fireball streaked across the sky at a speed of at least 54,000 km/h and shattered over the city of Chelyabinsk. The main object seems to have hit Lake Chebarkul.The Russian Academy of Sciences estimated that the meteor weighed 10 tons and the mid-air blast occurred at an altitude between 30???50 kilometres above the ground.
  • RisingsonRisingson 696 Posts
    Mr_Lee_PHD said:


    Can anyone calculate how fast that thing was travelling?

    33,000mph apparently
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    Mr_Lee_PHD said:
    The sonic boom came about 4 minutes behind the meteor...

    That depends where you were. Sound travels about 12.3 miles/minute. If you were right under it, the delay would about 30-60 seconds depending on what estimate is correct.

    It's a pretty remote area, I don't know if anybody was that close.
  • ppadilhappadilha 2,244 Posts
    I went searching on youtube for the Dee D. Jackson song and ran into this instead:

  • ppadilhappadilha 2,244 Posts
    not to worry guys, Putin was on top of things the whole time

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