Meteor shower hits Russia - Injuries, damage

[DaveP]

This is just hitting the news now. Just wild, fireballs over Russia, windows shattered, people injured by flying glass.

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-u...elyabinsk-283/

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

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...meteorite.html









I wonder if this is connected with asteroid 2012 DA14. Fragments of it maybe?

[vesper]

Big meteor flying by earth tomorrow around 3PM.

Crazy videos!!

[DaveP]

Interfax is reporting over 400 injured now.

http://interfax.com/

[Kitty77]

Wow, scary, sure hope those darn things don't come here.

[i_forget]

That is some crazy stuff!

[Natalka]

Holy crap! How fargin' scary!

[madchives]

is nutsy, thanks dave.
hoping everyone recovers but geeee

[DaveP]

Check this out, footage of the blast from indoors:



No wonder there were so many injuries. A lot of people went to look out the windows to see what the flash was and got a face full of glass. Hopefully nobody was blinded.

[anisa]

i am really interested in seeing what they retrieve from the site.
we were at the field museum in chicago this past summer, and they had so many meteorites. they were amazing. they have some at the ontario science center too.

they are fascinating things

[bluerose]

Holy cow !!!! ain't that something ? wow what a boom that sonic boom makes in the video scary.

[Natalka]

Just saw much more of this on morning news coverage - gosh, that sonic boom is loud on tv, can't imagine how loud it would have been in person!

So much damage to so many buildings; over 500 reported hurt, but I wouldn't be surprized if that number goes way up.

Michael Garnett from Saskatoon is now in that city in Russia playing hockey - was interviewed on Skype this morning.
He said he was in that half-awake phase, had hit the snooze button on his alarm, but woke up to the boom very shocked, thought it was maybe a natural gas explosion, bomb, etc. Is staying on the 23rd floor of a 24 floor building, so got out right away because he thought his building was hit. He wasn't hurt.

[princessjen]

I think this is a fragment of asteroid 2012 DA14. Too much of a coincidence for it not to be. It will be interesting to see if anything else happens in the next few days.

[anisa]

^ actually, apparently the chances of that are extremely slim.

doesn't line up at all with the direction it was traveling in.

[Patty Smyth]

When we had the earthquake here a few months ago the sonic boom was like something I have never heard before. Scared the crapolla out of us. lol The noise was actually scarier than the shaking that followed.

Can you imagine what a sizeable meteor could do and just think they didn't even see this one coming. The other one they have been tracking for a year but you never know eh? We could all go up in a puff of smoke in no time. lol

[muggos0101]

It's a good thing nobody freaked out and hit the button . I imagine there may have been some interesting phone calls after the incident.