Moostang Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Are you sure it's not North Korea misle? North Korea can't even shoot a rocket higher then 100 feet do I highly doubt it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Infrasound data collected by a network designed to watch for nuclear weapons testing suggests that today's blast released hundreds of kilotonnes of energy. That would make it far more powerful than the nuclear weapon tested by North Korea just days ago and the largest rock crashing onto the planet since a meteor broke up over Siberia's Tunguska river in 1908. North Korea is like Bad Luck Brian. Tests nuclear weapon... gets upstaged by a rock falling from the sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Just watched Battle Los Angeles. Coming true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Just watched Battle Los Angeles. Coming true? Great movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Could have more funner " Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia said the Russian government has underestimated potential risks of the region. He noted that the meteor struck only 60 miles from the Mayak nuclear storage and disposal facility, which holds dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. A chemical weapons disposal facility at Shchuchye also contains some 6,000 tons of nerve agents, including sarin and VX, about 14 percent of the chemical weapons that Russia is committed to destroy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey2721 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 From NASA New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered that atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15). The estimated size of the object, prior to entering Earth's atmosphere, has been revised upward from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters), and its estimated mass has increased from 7,000 to 10,000 tons. Also, the estimate for energy released during the event has increased by 30 kilotons to nearly 500 kilotons of energy released. These new estimates were generated using new data that had been collected by five additional infrasound stations located around the world – the first recording the event being in Alaska, over 6,500 kilometers away from Chelyabinsk. The infrasound data indicates that the event, from atmospheric entry to the meteor's airborne disintegration took 32.5 seconds. The calculations using the infrasound data were performed by Peter Brown at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. "We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you have a fireball of this size we would expect a large number of meteorites to reach the surface and in this case there were probably some large ones." The trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth, making it a completely unrelated object. The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlr8tn Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 fact: Meteors hate Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 http://www.funny-city.com/img/el/668x0/000/006/6141_4685.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted February 17, 2013 Report Share Posted February 17, 2013 ps: shock wave = compression wave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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