Meteor Shower in Russia Injures More than 250 People
Posted by Greg at 08:56, 15 Feb 2013In scenes reminiscent of the Hollywood movie Armageddon, a meteor shower has lit up the skies over Russia, with the shockwaves blowing out windows and injuring at least 250 people.
People in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions reported seeing "burning objects" in the sky, which also fell on the cities of Yekaterinburg and Tyumen - a sparsely populated area of about 500km (310 miles).
About 600 sq m (6,000 sq ft) of a roof at a zinc factory collapsed, the Associated Press quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying.
The Chelyabinsk region is Russia's industrial heartland, an area that has many factories, a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.
The emergencies ministry said that thousands of rescue workers had been dispatched to the area to provide help to the injured.
Officials say that the shower began after a large meteorite disintegrated above the Urals mountain range and partially burned up in the lower atmosphere - resulting in fragments falling earthwards throughout the Chelyabinsk region.
Coming just hours before the close pass of 2012 DA14, some in the region may well have been thinking the end had come as a series of massive explosive sounds echoed around the region:
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1 May 2004
2 days 9 hours
Good compilation, well done! If nothing else, it just shows how little can be done if a large lump of rock comes calling at 40,000 mph.
The shallow angle of entry on this occassion seems to lessened the impact - I just wonder what would have happened if this meteor had arrived straight down...
Nostra
12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
Not according to NASA.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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21 January 2005
4 hours 31 min
...this meteorite came down in the same general area on the planet that asteroid 2012 DA14 is supposed to fly past the Earth in just a few hours, it's hard not to think there might be some link between the two.
15 February 2013
17 weeks 3 days
Actually no it isn't. If you look at the flightpath simulations it approaches from Antarctica, over the Indian Ocean, across the middle east. By the time it is half way over the Indian Ocean it starts going away from Earth.
So different paths.
Remember there is hundreds and thousands of space debris out there, not all of it is big enough to catch and record.
21 January 2005
4 hours 31 min
..you're almost right. In that simulation, it moves up over the Indian Ocean, as you say--then passes up over (what appears to my eyes to be) the Eastern Europe/Western Asia region--and not far from western Russia (unless my grasp of geography has deteriorated badly). Or, I'll put it a little differently: these things are occurring in the same *general* part of the planet (i.e. not the U.S., or South America, Hawaii, the Arctic, etc.)--not exact, no, but generally, yes. (It will be interesting to find out the specific trajectory the meteorite took; considering all the possible paths a body can take when heading towards Earth, if this one turns out to be identical to the path the asteroid is taking, then I'd say it's reasonable to think they might have been part of the same "swarm".)
1 May 2004
12 weeks 6 days
Someone somewhere is possibly laughing maniacally and saying " It works and soon the world will be mine"
Liminal Whispers
30 April 2004
1 week 5 hours
Perhaps or someone's saying...
See? I told you not to press that button
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
wow -- do some people now have amazing stories to tell their grandkids. "i got this scar from a meteor..."
and it looks like people in Russia would be very good UFO finders -- they have their cameras at the ready before the event happens :3
(waiting to hear the marvvy opinions blaming America, American blacks, American black women, American black women scientists, American black women scientist masons, etc etc etc)
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12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
The most impressive thing about the first compilation of videos, was noticing how NONE of the cars slowed down, made a sudden stop or a hard turn as a result of this incredible celestial event.
Something the skeptics should think about, next time they bother to criticize a UFO clip on Youtube, merely on the basis that "people don't react like that way when faced with an amazing sighting".
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
Maybe I'm underestimating the Russian mentality when facing life/death situations :P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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18 September 2007
6 hours 27 min
What is it about Russia that seems to attract the more spectacular incomings? Are the short gray dudes guiding these waywards to the boonies?
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
*giggle* oh, that movie was so delightfully horrible :3
my Russian-now-Canadian friend says that a typical Russian way of solving a problem: 3 men want to get to the other side of a brick wall so they hit at one section of that wall with their elbow until they knock a hole in it then say problem solved.
and the Russian sense of humour: "Life was shitty, life is shitty, life will be shitty so why not laugh?"
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1 May 2004
16 weeks 4 days
http://www.theonion.com/articles/more-th...
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
Totally :3
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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1 May 2004
1 day 11 hours
Geez. Don't you remember those harrowing YouTube videos we watched of Russian drivers?
You think a little explosion in the sky would rattle any of these people?
Russian Road Rage and Car Crashes 2012
Russian roads from a dashcams' point of view
21 January 2005
4 hours 31 min
...an impact crater after all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl...
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
that film looks suspiciously like this one
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21 January 2005
4 hours 31 min
--it's a case of media bait-and-switch. Too bad. (So when exactly did the internet cease being a source of unimpeachable, accurate information? What's next--advertisements that lie about their products??)
6 April 2010
57 min 12 sec
I always watch these kind of videos in amazement and think "what is going through the mind of the observer/filmer?" mine would just be two words......I bet you can guess them ;)
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
1 April 2009
3 weeks 4 days
I just wrote this on my remote viewing website -
http://www.remoteviewed.com/blog/index.p...
I believe we, using remote viewing predicted this event way back in 2008 in project looking at earth/climate changed within the first seven months of 2013.
Main Remote Viewing website - www.remoteviewed.com
My main Remote Viewing blog - http://cosmicspoon.blogspot.com
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12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
The RVers described a large meteor impact, and although the global media focused heavily on the Russian story, and unfortunately there were injured as a result of the impact, the fact of the matter is that this wasn't a big rock.
If the meteor had fallen in Africa or an impoverished region of South America --like this story from Peru a few years ago-- I doubt it would have received the same level of attention.
So, playing devil's advocate here for a minute, I'm not sure if you detected this event 5 years ago.
Now, if you told me they detected the Pope's resignation, well then... ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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1 April 2009
3 weeks 4 days
Oh, so you are saying that its pure coincidence that a once in a lifetime and last one over 100 years ago - event, just happened to occur within a six month time window as predicted by rv data five years ago.
yes that must be the answer - coincidence ;)
I'm also tracking the other feedback for the project and its locations detailing the earth climate changes events - predicted five years ago by Rv here: http://www.climatechange2013.com/news/
- are these all coincidences as well?
two of the rv locations Australia and Tuvalu have/are already experiencing earth/climate change as we predicted in 2008.
Please be aware the project is ongoing and the time window for the project is from jan - June 2013.
All the best...
Daz
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18 September 2007
6 hours 27 min
"Large" of course is a relative term. Any meteorite large enough to do what that one did is certainly extraordinary for these times. It wouldn't matter where it fell on earth. It was "large."
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
Man, if RV can work reliably, repeatably and can be taught relatively easily (ie no 20 year stints in caves to learn how) then this can be a BOON to humanity.
just think
it would change the field of astronomy
of physics (peer yourself into atoms...find out just what happens when an observation happens)
biology (what is life?)
neurology
geology (what is the composition of the earth's core?)
economics (if RV can work by, say, postulating 'if i put this economic idea into play, what will the future be like?' would be endlessly valuable. that could also help all science, pharmacology...wow)
and much more
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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18 September 2007
6 hours 27 min
RV has been around for millenia doing some of the things about which you speculate.
2 May 2004
13 hours 11 min
Not a big rock, RPJ? The meteor was 10 tonnes when it hit the Earth's atmosphere, and exploded with a force 33 times the Hiroshima atomic bomb. It was the biggest meteor strike in over a century, since Tunguska. That qualifies it as 'large' in my dojo! I know you're 6'4" and you could use that meteor as a basketball, but spare a thought for us hobbits! :P
Sure, the incredible amateur video meant the Russian event got worldwide attention; but even if it struck remote Siberia where not even the reindeer saw it, the size of the meteor and its impact wouldn't have been any less spectacular. Even the reindeer in remotest Siberia have smartphones these days, though.
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
NASA scientists are saying the meteor was 17 meters in diameter.
The stone that pwned the dinos? 300 km!
Likely rocks the type of the Russian meteor are raining on us all the time, but we don't hear about them because they fall in the ocean.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
Indeed :3
'All the time': sand grain size
'Few each day': baseball/basketball
'Once a week': size of a car
'Once every few months': size of a house
so since that's the case, these RVers would definitely get a hit on large...
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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2 May 2004
13 hours 11 min
Anything bigger, and we probably wouldn't be around to argue about it. Now put it away and stop arguing about size. :P
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@levitatingcat
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
*chuckle*
after the initial RVers do their thang and draw/write their pictures, when the pictures are compared to world events, what methodologies are there to take that person's bias into account?
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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18 February 2013
16 weeks 6 days
As a recording engineer and acoustician, it is easy to explain the random nature of the damage in the city. Standing waves. The blast wave was just an extreme sound wave. As the pressure wave reflecting through the cityscape, the interaction of reflected waves caused boost and cuts in the wave force depending on where in the pressure cycle they intersected. Each wave being a spherical series of pressure compressions and rarefactions, if they interact at a point where both reflected waves are compressing, you get an increase in the pressure. If they are both in the rarefaction part of the cycle, you get a increase in the rarefaction. If they are at opposite points in the cycle, you get a nullification. When one apartment had all its windows shattered, that apartment was at a point where the pressure was maximized by standing waves. The apartment next door, where there was no damage, was at a point where wave interaction reduced or nullified the compression. From an acoustic point of view, the random damage makes perfect sense.
18 September 2007
6 hours 27 min
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/rus...
As n amusing aside this Wired magazine article explains why there was so much video footage of the meteorite. Everyone in that part of Russia has a "dash cam."
2 May 2004
13 hours 11 min
Why do they call them dash cams? Because they're always Russian. boom tish!
I suspect they're for a secret surveillance op of Bigfoot.
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
I for one would hope our Canadian friends will come to accept the usefulness of these devices. If every car in British Columbia had one of those installed, things would get more interesting in the realm of Cryptozoology :)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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18 September 2007
6 hours 27 min
Yes it would. So many sightings are from cars zipping along through the forest corridors.
This reminds me - back in the early 1980's my wife and I had a sort of second honeymoon in Sook Harbor, BC at a little bed and breakfast, and we would take hikes into some of the virgin timber lands nearby. I have spent a lot of time in the woods of the southern US where I grew up, but I must say the sense of being watched in those BC woods was palpable. I have never felt uneasy in the woods before that. It was damn strange - probably mostly a psychological effect of being among really giant trees and immense silence. I could see though how easy it would be to feel one was being watched by something like Sasquatch in those areas. Perhaps we actually were within the psychic mindspace of a squatch. BC is as squatchy as it gets.
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
I for one would hope our Canadian friends will come to accept the usefulness of these devices. If every car in British Columbia had one of those installed, things would get more interesting in the realm of Cryptozoology :)
ach, we would, but, alas, most of us still ride around in canoes and igloos and these cameras tend to capsize these vehicles...oh, for the innovation of the USA
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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12 April 2007
3 hours 29 min
Chale...
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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