Meteors and UFOs

[KPENN]

Pretty wild

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Explosions in Chelyabinsk; Meteor Suspected (UPDATED)

 

[clashmore_mike]

just saw this on twitter. crazy.

 

[DSully1995]

bad *** ****, im not saying its aliens, but aliens

 

[OrlaNDomer]

I hope some better videos come out, but this is insane.

 

[irishfan]

Well, I just watched Deep Impact the other day. Thank god this is nothing like that haha

This is really crazy though.

 

[BeauBenken]

...what.

 

[nlroma1o]

So..... Gnarly.....

 

[woolybug25]

I think this stuff is fascinating. Scientists constantly say that we would know far in advance if something was coming, but why they were all staring at the one that will pass by (17K miles away), this one went unnoticed.

Can you imagine if a meteor of similar size hit downtown NY or LA? It would be devastating and the scientist could easily not see it see it coming. Wild.

 

[magogian]

Meteor trackers identify all the ones that miss but miss the one that hits?

 

[chicago51]

How big do you think the meter that allegadly killed the dinosaurs via startvation had to be?

 

[yankeeND]

Last night when I was coming home from work I saw something similar to that but on a smaller scale. It was very cool! The thing is, it burnt up before it hit. At first I thought it was a shooting star but it looked more like that video. Thanks for sharing that!

 

[BleedBlueGold]

This is unbelievable. I've always been fascinated by Space. It all started when I saw something similar to this when I was really little. To this day no one in my family believes that I saw a fireball in the sky (that wasn't the sun). It scared me to death at the time.

 

[woolybug25]

Last night when I was coming home from work I saw something similar to that but on a smaller scale. It was very cool! The thing is, it burnt up before it hit. At first I thought it was a shooting star but it looked more like that video. Thanks for sharing that!

I think what you saw was different.... tator molder....

 

[UmphreakDomer]

I think this stuff is fascinating. Scientists constantly say that we would know far in advance if something was coming, but why they were all staring at the one that will pass by (17K miles away), this one went unnoticed.

Can you imagine if a meteor of similar size hit downtown NY or LA? It would be devastating and the scientist could easily not see it see it coming. Wild.

my guess is that this one in russia was probably slightly bigger than a medicine ball. they just cant see all of that stuff. and yes, hitting any major city would be devastating. the universe is unstoppable.

 

[IndyIrishFan1]

Do all cars in Russia have a dash cam? What is going on over there?

BTW: The internet went to another level once those Russians got a hold of some video cameras and YouTube.

 

[yankeeND]

I think what you saw was different.... tator molder....

lol, naw man it wasn't visitors. At least it better not have been. What's this under my skin?

 

[BleedBlueGold]

The videos with the sound and the impact are insane! It's like a bomb.

MSN has a good video report.

 

[rikkitikki08]

That is insane.....in a good way

 

[rikkitikki08]

I love when you can hear it hit the sound barrier......am i hearing that right?

 

[Irishnuke]

Awesome

 

[Ndaccountant]

How big do you think the meter that allegadly killed the dinosaurs via startvation had to be?

Ask and ye shall receive:

"In the more massive Cretaceous-Tertiary impact (K-T impact), a 10-km diameter object struck off the Yucatan Peninsula some 65.5 million years ago. Scientists found the crater around 1995 using seismic monitoring equipment designed to hunt for oil. Probably the size of a small city, the Chicxulub impact is widely believed to have triggered a mass dinosaur die-off, either through a global firestorm caused by earthquakes releasing pockets of methane set afire by lightning, or through massive long-term environmental changes."

 

[Rack Em]

I've always been fascinated by Space.

Hey Doctor! If the moon were made of barbeque spare ribs, would you eat it? I would!

 

[UmphreakDomer]

I love when you can hear it hit the sound barrier......am i hearing that right?

this thing was traveling, as it entered the atmosphere, at 19 miles per second. well, beyond the sound barrier from entry to impact.

 

[rikkitikki08]

this thing was traveling, as it entered the atmosphere, at 19 miles per second. well, beyond the sound barrier from entry to impact.

Thanks for the clarification, i am definitely no rocket surgeon

 

[UmphreakDomer]

Thanks for the clarification, i am definitely no rocket surgeon

i just googled bill nye the science guy. lol

 

[Irish2155]

Link says the video has been removed for me.

 

[Cackalacky]

This is kind of a phyiscal picture of the barrier. This picture shows water droplets in the air condensing around the "barrier" according to wiki.

The mach number is the relation of an object's speed to the speed of sound at a certain fluid ("air" in this case"). So Mach 2 is 2X sound barrier, Mach 3 3x etc. When an object travels faster than the speed of sound (about 770 mph) the object compresses the fluid (air) in front of it and as it passes through this point it results in the sonic boom.

 

[BobD]

Wow when I saw the title of this thread I thought it was saying the big asteroid that's supposed to pass by us today had hit. I immediately opened the wood blind next to me and looked outside.

 

[ND NYC]

This is kind of a phyiscal picture of the barrier. This picture shows water droplets in the air condensing around the "barrier" according to wiki.

The mach number is the relation of an object's speed to the speed of sound at a certain fluid ("air" in this case"). So Mach 2 is 2X sound barrier, Mach 3 3x etc. When an object travels faster than the speed of sound (about 770 mph) the object compresses the fluid (air) in front of it and as it passes through this point it results in the sonic boom.

this phenomenon often occurs after ingesting large amounts of Chinese food

 

[chicago51]

Ask and ye shall receive:

"In the more massive Cretaceous-Tertiary impact (K-T impact), a 10-km diameter object struck off the Yucatan Peninsula some 65.5 million years ago. Scientists found the crater around 1995 using seismic monitoring equipment designed to hunt for oil. Probably the size of a small city, the Chicxulub impact is widely believed to have triggered a mass dinosaur die-off, either through a global firestorm caused by earthquakes releasing pockets of methane set afire by lightning, or through massive long-term environmental changes."

Thanks for the info. I learned something!