Meteor strike injures 950 in Russia

[BroDeal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Good compilation here of video. Mostly security cam footage.

Still haven't heard just how much hit the ground. One report says it pretty much broke apart with small fragments hitting, another says they are looking for a potentially large impact site.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Impact site found:

 

[northstar]

Meteor fragments can be big money.

I was in Whitehorse Yukon when the Tagish Lake meteorite fell in 2000. Some guy found still-frozen fragments, put them in his freezer and then sold them to University of Alberta (and others) for around $850,000.

http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/archives/story.html?id=f0214724-c97e-418a-b1f1-e243e00dce97

Send out the search parties.

 

[Cobblestones]

The whole thing might have burnt up in the atmosphere. People got injured by glass splinters flying around from the pressure pulse created by the explosion. It's not like 1000 people got hit by small pieces of space rock. I don't know it there's any crater. But yeah, if people do find pieces, they can be worth a lot.

Anybody's watching the meteorite men on discovery?

 

[rickshaw]

Incoming!!!!!!

A meteorite hit about 10 miles from where I live almost 3 years ago. Lots of people saw the flaming sky, the shock wave made one person I know think the building she was in was collapsing. Then within a few days the area experienced a steady stream of news people and meteorite hunters from all over. The landing path was over mostly private land with hilly ravines, woods etc so the main chunk was never found. The little bits people did find were worth some money..... whenever I'd ride past some hunters with their magnet-sticks I'd shout, "INCOMING!!!!" The riders thought it funny, the hunters not so much.

Fox News said casualties in Russia were over 1200. Those Murdocks!

 

[krebs303]

This should not come anywhere near that close. but it will be live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCFWUemLzM0

A gigantic asteroid nearly 900 feet wide will race past planet Earth tonight, a harmless but sobering reminder of the dangers posed by such interplanetary visitors.

On Monday, Feb. 17, at approximately 9:00p.m. EST, the Slooh space telescope will broadcast a live video stream and scientific discussion about the silent visitor, which will be traveling at approximately 27,000 miles per hour when it soars safely past the planet.

The asteroid, called NEA 2000 EM26, will come no closer than 8.8 lunar distances from Earth -- a measure of the distance between us and the moon -- and poses no threat to us.

But awareness of asteroids is our best means of keeping ourselves safe, said Slooh’s technical and research director, Paul Cox.

“We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids -- sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth,” he said in a statement. “We need to find them before they find us!”

 

[mewmewmew13]

This should not come anywhere near that close. but it will be live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCFWUemLzM0

A gigantic asteroid nearly 900 feet wide will race past planet Earth tonight, a harmless but sobering reminder of the dangers posed by such interplanetary visitors.

On Monday, Feb. 17, at approximately 9:00p.m. EST, the Slooh space telescope will broadcast a live video stream and scientific discussion about the silent visitor, which will be traveling at approximately 27,000 miles per hour when it soars safely past the planet.

The asteroid, called NEA 2000 EM26, will come no closer than 8.8 lunar distances from Earth -- a measure of the distance between us and the moon -- and poses no threat to us.

But awareness of asteroids is our best means of keeping ourselves safe, said Slooh’s technical and research director, Paul Cox.

“We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids -- sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth,” he said in a statement. “We need to find them before they find us!”

Krebby make sure you are inside at 6 tonight

 

[mewmewmew13]

and thanx for the link!
Pretty interesting and this is certainly not going to be the last ...

 

[krebs303]

I wonder if it will be visible with naked eye. It's not that large