Meteor burned up over Russia today
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Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject
If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.
If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.
I'm going to put this here.
And say no more about it.
However, that would have been incredibly cool to see, so long as I didn't get a bit of falling glass stuck in my head. Nothing cool ever happens in England.
And say no more about it.
However, that would have been incredibly cool to see, so long as I didn't get a bit of falling glass stuck in my head. Nothing cool ever happens in England.
Hundreds of years? ;>_>TizzytheTormentor said:
Nobody tell him that this kind of stuff happens WAY more often that that, but usually in remote areas.
That and the fact it was probably only about the size of a small car.Katatori-kun said:
Space is a pretty big place!
I knew it was coming. I was reading just last week that an asteroid was going to enter Earth's atmosphere on February 15th.
Truth be told, I was more worried it would hit one of our billion and a half satellites and have its trajectory changed to crash right into Earth.
Truth be told, I was more worried it would hit one of our billion and a half satellites and have its trajectory changed to crash right into Earth.
No this is a totally different one. It also came from the wrong direction to have been apart of the 2012 DA14 asteroid, which has passed us safely by now.KiKiweaky said:Is that the one that was supposed to be seen on the 15th of feb? I thought it was supposed to come at 7.30pm gmt0trollnystan said:
Something like 5-7.5 megatons of tnt or roughly 1000 times the Hiroshima bomb. Events on that scale happen roughly once every 1000 years and the last one happen in 1908 in Siberia. So you can breath easy it's not likely to happen again any time soon.DugMachine said:
Because that thing probably wasn't bigger than a bus before it broke up (I don't know exactly, depends on the composition), and there are literally millions of those things flying around. Way too many for any space agency to track. The really big ones are mostly accounted for, but even for most of those, the orbits aren't 100% clear. And that's not even taking comets into account, many of which come from so deep in space we don't even know they exist.SweetShark said:
This isn't a rare occurence. We're hit by 100 tons of interplanetary rocks and dust each day, Most of it grains of sand, but maybe a dozen times a year something of this scale comes down. Usually in sparsely inhabited regions (generally over sea), so they don't get on the news very often. The bigger the rock, the rarer it is, so the smaller the chance of getting hit by one. Still, even as recent as 2011 one landed in central Asia that could have wrecked a town if it had landed a couple of hours earlier or later. The Solar system is a shooting gallery, no matter what way you look at it.
It's not like it's on a countdown. The next one could hit in a 1000 years or in 1 year. Who's to know?albino boo said:
I know people got hurt, that is why I said it would be awesome to see it if no one got hurt. It also was not hundreds of years, there are observed falls every few decades. Those are just the ones we see, the Earth is bombarded with small meteorites every day. Most are the size of grains of sand or pebbles though.TizzytheTormentor said:
Pinkamena said:
I've seen one in 2002. It was a night with a clear sky so the trail of flame it left behind looked amazing.Snownine said:
I remember saying to my friend "Look over there!" and pointing at the sky. He looked at me and said "Where?" and he missed it.
they dont need to come from the suns direction for us to miss them. its a big sky and we havent even looked at most of it, let alone all of ittrollnystan said:
I know what you mean, but if you see a bright flash or light in the sky all of a sudden, please, please, please don't rush to a window to look. I daresay a lot of the injuries caused were due to people getting broken window glass in the face when the sonic boom hit.Snownine said:
Up until a few days ago, if someone said "a bright flash or light in the sky all of a sudden", I'd have assumed a nuclear initiation, and the same very much applies. Of course, depending on the yield and how close it is, you might get blinded or burned before the blast hits, which might destroy your house anyway[footnote]It goes light heat blast, in that order. "Left handed bastards" is apparently the mnemonic[/footnote]. But as a general rule, ducking and covering doesn't hurt, and there's going to be people it would save.
You realise that over 1000 people were injured right? Mostly by the by the broken glass. Saw images on the news and that shit looked pretty painful to me.Nouw said:
True, but it coming from the sun's direction makes a lot harder to see them. What we might spot (with some luck) from any other direction, will very likely take us by surprise coming from the sun's direction.spartan231490 said:
We're always so maligned, us sinist-- I mean lefties. Sigh...[footnote]Note to self: Cancel planed nuclear attack. They're on to us![/footnote]thaluikhain said: