SuperMillionaire
02-16-2013, 06:19 PM
Meteor injures at least 1,200 in Russia - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/meteorite-injures-more-than-900-in-russian-city/2013/02/15/ff67c624-7770-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_event
Meteorite Shower Hits Russia Injuring 500 (BREAKING NEWS) - 15th Feb 2013 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXcaog9J6u8)
On February 15, 2013, a meteorite exploded in the air over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, creating an extremely loud sonic boom that shattered glass, damaged property, and injured about 1,200 people. The meteor had an estimated diameter of 56 feet (17 meters), an estimated mass of about 22 million pounds (10,000 tons), and was traveling at an estimated speed of about 35,000 mph (54,000 kph).
It was the largest meteorite to strike Earth since the 1908 Tunguska meteorite some 105 years ago, which struck the Siberian region of Russia, which did not kill anyone, but burned about 80 million trees over and area of about 830 square miles.
Just a few weeknights ago, I was watching a program called Deadliest Space Weather on the Weather Channel, and one of the episodes focused on meteors. While we most likely won't have to fear an asteroid about as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs in the near future (that asteroid was estimated to be about the size of Mount Everest, and struck 65 million years ago, causing about 75% of all living species to die out), we still have to be on the lookout for thousands of other much smaller asteroids, roughly about the size of a football field, which can explode in midair like an atomic bomb, and destroy entire cities. Sure enough, just a few weeks after that episode premiered, we get the news of such a meteorite exploding over Russia some 105 years after the Tunguska event of 1908.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_event
Meteorite Shower Hits Russia Injuring 500 (BREAKING NEWS) - 15th Feb 2013 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXcaog9J6u8)
On February 15, 2013, a meteorite exploded in the air over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, creating an extremely loud sonic boom that shattered glass, damaged property, and injured about 1,200 people. The meteor had an estimated diameter of 56 feet (17 meters), an estimated mass of about 22 million pounds (10,000 tons), and was traveling at an estimated speed of about 35,000 mph (54,000 kph).
It was the largest meteorite to strike Earth since the 1908 Tunguska meteorite some 105 years ago, which struck the Siberian region of Russia, which did not kill anyone, but burned about 80 million trees over and area of about 830 square miles.
Just a few weeknights ago, I was watching a program called Deadliest Space Weather on the Weather Channel, and one of the episodes focused on meteors. While we most likely won't have to fear an asteroid about as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs in the near future (that asteroid was estimated to be about the size of Mount Everest, and struck 65 million years ago, causing about 75% of all living species to die out), we still have to be on the lookout for thousands of other much smaller asteroids, roughly about the size of a football field, which can explode in midair like an atomic bomb, and destroy entire cities. Sure enough, just a few weeks after that episode premiered, we get the news of such a meteorite exploding over Russia some 105 years after the Tunguska event of 1908.