Huge meteor explodes over Russia!!!

[tedly]

This thing is supposed to have weighed 10 tons! Damn!!!

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2...in-russia?lite

[Monk]

I thought it was Brutus throwing another drive shaft.

[JOES66FURY]

There are some Russians claiming it was the USA testing weapons...the metior fragments must not be enough proof.

[tedly]

Here's another link with more videos, Holy guacamole you gotta see this!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro...er_russia.html

[STINEY]

10 megaton blast several miles up? Wow. That's a big "pop".

[tedly]

There are some Russians claiming it was the USA testing weapons...the metior fragments must not be enough proof.

One of the "fragments" apparently left a 20 foot hole in the ice of a lake.

[TheSilverBuick]

The ones with the audio of the shockwave is pretty incredible.

[tedly]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/...html?hpt=hp_c1

[Thumpin455]

Tunguska 1908 had a bigger one, flattened trees for hundreds of miles and started a huge wildfire. If that had been a ten megaton blast, the city would no longer be there, but it appears it was a sonic boom rather than the rock exploding in the sky like Tunguska.

Here is some more information about metorites and ELEs/ (Extinction level events)

[JOES66FURY]

The video is pretty awe inspiring..


I've watched documentrys on Tunguska...amazing...really shows how vulnerable we really are.

[SuperBuickGuy]

just when I thought the only things to worry about in Russia were the mafia and the drivers...


a 20' hole in ice? ummmm, I must be a jaded-man-of-the-world because that doesn't impress me at all - heck, I've done better craters than that skiing.

[Barry Donovan]

around 50-60 degrees north..
seems to be the hits.

north of maine has a hole .25 the size of the state...around 50 something degrees.

I'd snapshot but my google earth seems to be in kindergarten mode.

to pop iron with an earthly warm atmoshpere. wow. that must have been some hellacious cold out there in space, no air.

[antmnte]

Imagine if this happened 30 years ago?! They would have sent something back!

[TheSilverBuick]

Now for one that will solve our social issues! The coolest part of this event is how well recorded it is due to Russian driver's crazy use of dash cameras. On another note.

The Russian one.


The one I'm waiting for!

[TC]

All when they had their eyes on another asteroid that is going to pass by today..... will miss us by 17,000 miles

http://ktla.com/2013/02/15/asteroid-makes-closest-pass-by-earth-today/#axzz2L0RQPiac