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JoeTheBro on 15 February 2013

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appolose on 15 February 2013

Why on earth is this not getting more news? It's almost a side-story on Yahoo. A meteor as visible as this is extremely rare, and, save for one story, I can't recall any recorded injuries from meteorites. This one injured hundreds! This is unprecedented.



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n-skyline on 15 February 2013

sky news is reporting this metoer shower as injuring 500 people i think its becoming big news



Lafiel on 15 February 2013
superchunk said:
Sharu said:
Somini said:

I thought this was about the meteor that's gonna pass near the Earth today, but i see the date on the video is from 2012!! Still amazing though :)

Oh, no, its todays meteor. Just wrong date on the videoregister... Russia, you know... )))

Added another video in the OP.

However, I don't think its a meteorite of the asteroid that is passing earth today very close. That was much larger and would like cause far more severe damage.

I think this just coincidence to be on same day and far smaller.

Actually it's very very likely to be a former part of that asteroid. This fragment probably seperated from the main part hundreds of thousends of years ago, but still roughly shared it's orbit.

 

appolose said:
Why on earth is this not getting more news? It's almost a side-story on Yahoo. A meteor as visible as this is extremely rare, and, save for one story, I can't recall any recorded injuries from meteorites. This one injured hundreds! This is unprecedented.

I heard most injuries are from bursting windows though.



Sharu on 15 February 2013

Yeah, correct... All the injuries reported are from window glasses after soundwave. The workers at the factory were lucky - it was a shift change when one of the pieces hit the building, so nobody get harm.



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Player2 on 15 February 2013
Lafiel said:
superchunk said:
Sharu said:
Somini said:

I thought this was about the meteor that's gonna pass near the Earth today, but i see the date on the video is from 2012!! Still amazing though :)

Oh, no, its todays meteor. Just wrong date on the videoregister... Russia, you know... )))

Added another video in the OP.

However, I don't think its a meteorite of the asteroid that is passing earth today very close. That was much larger and would like cause far more severe damage.

I think this just coincidence to be on same day and far smaller.

Actually it's very very likely to be a former part of that asteroid. This fragment probably seperated from the main part hundreds of thousends of years ago, but still roughly shared it's orbit.

It's very likely that the fragment separated recently due to the heat of being near the sun.



Lafiel on 15 February 2013
Player2 said:

It's very likely that the fragment separated recently due to the heat of being near the sun.

this is an asteroid, not a comet - by the way this asteroid is known to roughly share the same orbit as the earth, it's been as close as it's to the sun now for at least millions of years



NiKKoM on 15 February 2013

scary stuff.. think about what would happen if it crossed a larger city like NY.



 

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ithis on 15 February 2013

The first time I saw this all the films were from cars. And everyone was strangely un-reacting. I thought this was face. But I guess we're just lucky that russian cars film everything.



JEMC on 15 February 2013
Lafiel said:
Player2 said:

It's very likely that the fragment separated recently due to the heat of being near the sun.

this is an asteroid, not a comet - by the way this asteroid is known to roughly share the same orbit as the earth, it's been as close as it's to the sun now for at least millions of years

If it's a known asteroid, why is it called 2012 DA14? I thought the 2012 part was in reference to the year it was discovered.

Truly amazing view, spectacular but scary. Glad that there's only minor injuries (for now).



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