The sky is falling in Russia!

[Tall Paul]

Breaking News a meteor hits Russia!
 
http://news.yahoo.com/possible-meteor-shower-reported-eastern-russia-052833588.html
 
Paul

 

[extremeXconcepts]

Holy shit balls!


Ever see those videos, IN SOVIET RUSSIA.......heres one for you now. They have one in soviet russia bass drops you......more like asteroid drops you

 

[Rod]

I just heard about this.  Freak'n nuts!  There's supposed to be a huge meteor passing earth today; closest one of this size to ever pass.  Strange they know about the one today but not the one last night...  

 

[Tall Paul]

I just heard about this.  Freak'n nuts!  There's supposed to be a huge meteor passing earth today; closest one of this size to ever pass.  Strange they know about the one today but not the one last night...  

Do you know where it is passing? Will we be able to see it?

 

[chiefmd]

Supoosedly the one in russia had no part from the huge one passing by but im sure it was probably debri and they dont want everyone to freak out.

 

[extremeXconcepts]

They said you could see it the best in Australia it was all over TV last week. Google it. Im sure they will have a shit ton of videos tomorrow of it. 

 

[BlindedByScience]

Pretty good article and collection of videos here:
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279020/Russian-meteorite-Moment-meteorite-exploded-doctors-treat-500-people-injured.html
 
The videos are amazing.  I'm sure those people thought it was the end of the world....had to be horrifying.

 

[LarryH]

I saw these earlier today and thought they were moving too slowly, like SciFi movie slow.  The arcing trajectory made me think that it was real.  It seems like the trajectory is more of a straight line in the movies.  I'm still not convinced that it isn't an elaborate hoax. 

 

[Nocturnus]

Even NASA is in on the hoax!  I need to get my tinfoil hat.

 

[4cbln3]

How do you have 1000 people injured but no fatalities? Was the meteor made from Nerf?  :laugh:

 

[bigmanfromou]

Injuries were ppl running to the window to look and then the sonic boom blowing out the windows on them.

 

[louich]

Paul, the meteorite is suppose to pass earth by the Indian sea if the news I read are correct.

 

[Set-In-Stone]

I still cant get over that sonic "boom" that follows... Amazing videos.
 
Here's one of the crater it left by, what Im assuming was, the largest chunk of what was left of the meteor after exploding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqslM-XEGDM

 

[jfields]

Hmmm.. Comments are disabled. That's an awfully big crater. I'm thinking that that is a volcano crater and someone is passing it off as the meteor from today. Look at how small the guy in the background is for scale. There would be a lot more devastation/debris  in the snow sourounding the crater if it were from impact.

 

[Nocturnus]

For some reason, that video looks more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze then anything else.

 

[bigmanfromou]

Hahaha...That's the Door to Hell.