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Meteor strike injures hundreds in central Russia

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  1. Jazz

    Jazz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Did you mean Ria Novosty? > > > > >

    Meteorite Fireball Slams Into Russia, 1,000 Hurt

    The blast was so powerful that it was detected by 11 of the 45 infrasound stations of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)’s network.

    "It was like a train falling down from the sky," a Chelyabinsk resident told RIA Novosti.

    An update posted on the NASA site estimates that 500 kilotons of energy was released,
    that it was 17 meters in size before entering the earth's atmosphere, and
    that it had a mass of 10,000 tons -
    making it 30 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

    Read more here:
    http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130216/179500225/Meteorite-Hits-Central-Russia-Hurting-Hundreds.html
     
    Jazz, Feb 17, 2013
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  2. Gemini_Fyre

    Gemini_Fyre New Member

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    I could only wish.

    It would get hung up on homosexual marriages with an alien. And alien abortion, and you know it.:roll:

    They should have kept looking. But I could see a "Mars Attacks!!!" kind of thing banding everybody together for about a hundred years before we are at each others throats again. It would certainly clean the gene pool a bit.
     
    Gemini_Fyre, Feb 17, 2013
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  3. happy fun dude

    happy fun dude New Member

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    EXCELLENT point!!! Thank you.

    BTW you mean asteroids.. meteors are the name for those that actually do wind up hitting the Earth (including its atmosphere).
     
    happy fun dude, Feb 17, 2013
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  4. AlphaOmega

    AlphaOmega Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah its pretty awesome actually. Its akin to a rock skipping on water, once it hits the dense atmosphere at that velocity.....bam!
     
    AlphaOmega, Feb 17, 2013
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    Actually they do explode; the massive meteor which exploded over Tunguska was one such example of an air burst.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
     
    snakestretcher, Feb 17, 2013
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    So you are saying the next Superman is going to be a Russian....!

    Oy Vey......
     
    dman, Feb 18, 2013
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    too late.

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    mikezila, Feb 19, 2013
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  8. catalinacat

    catalinacat Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah, see that now - it is fascinating - the very air it is shooting through breaks it up.
     
    catalinacat, Feb 20, 2013
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    SAUER, Oct 16, 2013
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