2013 Russian meteorite

[SuperMillionaire]

Meteor injures at least 1,200 in Russia - The Washington Post

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_event

Meteorite Shower Hits Russia Injuring 500 (BREAKING NEWS) - 15th Feb 2013 - YouTube

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.

[Quindiana Jones]

Keep a look out everyone! If you see a giant rock heading towards you at several thousands miles per hour, you best dodge it!

[Faris]

Keep a look out everyone! If you see a giant rock heading towards you at several thousands miles per hour, you best dodge it!

Side step like a pro and you'll be fiiiiiiiiine.

[Xannidel]

Or do what they do in Final Fantasy when an enemy misses a meteor spell :s

[Quindiana Jones]

You could try opening a door, which should give you a few invincibility frames. /darksoulsftw

[Chris]

So much for "Lifestream" and "Weapons" to protect us. Feel like I have been lied to to for so many years.

[Rocket Edge]

I know it's wrong but I'd love to see an actual meteor impact event, around the size of the one that passed earth yesterday, 50 metres or so. Hit somewhere out in the wilderness and have the cameras & popcorn ready, it would be amazing.

[Shauna]

A Russian meteorite? I knew we couldn't trust those damn Reds. >:{

[DrAssenov]

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taken from Aperture Science's FB page

Yeah, I talked about this with my husband. Let's hope those private companies speed up their development of those Earth-defense anti-asteroid projects/asteroid mining projects.

Would be nice to not have the human race end by something like this -- especially when we've got WMD here enough to blow each other to bits already - use that instead to defend Earth from space rocks like that!

[qwertysaur]

Why do all the meteorites like to hit Russia? Does space have a grudge against them or something?

[Clo]

No one has posted this yet? Slackers.

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[Mirage]

I am glad it hit russia, and not me.

[Jinx]

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Just keep playing the Song of Time.

[DownDiagonalLeftA]

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[SuperMillionaire]

Why do all the meteorites like to hit Russia? Does space have a grudge against them or something?

Would you want a meteorite to hit your area? I think not.

And a number of other meteorites indeed have hit other areas on the planet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...aters_on_Earth

With that said, Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of land area, but is not quite as densely populated as other countries, such as China, India, the United States, or Brazil, all of which contain more people in a smaller area. The region of Siberia, in particular, where the Tunguska meteor exploded back in 1908, is very sparsely populated.

And they got to space before the Americans did, too.