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Sharu on 15 February 2013

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

Chelyabinsk is quite a big city actually, more than million people.



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Zuhyc on 15 February 2013

THE CHIMERA ARE COMING

To arms!



JazzB1987 on 15 February 2013
kain_kusanagi said:
Very cool vid. I'm glad that there are now so many cameras running all the time that we get to see stuff like this.


Which makes you think about  "Why do we have just a 3 frame "gif" with nothing at all that hits the pentagon".  But thats another story.



Player2 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

The majority of asteroids have quite eccentric orbits, so for most of them that was possible, but it looks like this one doesn't.



Player2 on 15 February 2013
JEMC said:
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).

My guess is that they didn't discover it earlier because it is small (50 metres of diameter).



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Lafiel on 15 February 2013
JEMC said:
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).

Yes, it has been discovered last year (22nd of feb), when it passed the earth in a distance that is ~7 times the distance earth-moon.



bananaking21 on 15 February 2013

woooow



Lafiel on 15 February 2013
Soriku said:
That's not a meteor, that's Superman.

...

For a meteor that's 17,000 miles away, it looks sooooo close. Literally looked like a low-flying plane. Yes I know the sun's 93 million miles away and it's rather visible too.

Badass. Hope the people that got injured weren't hurt too bad though.

well, these videos are not of the asteroid that will pass the earth by in 17,000 miles distance - that one will be barely visible with binoculars



Player2 on 15 February 2013
Soriku said:
Lafiel said:
Soriku said:
That's not a meteor, that's Superman.

...

For a meteor that's 17,000 miles away, it looks sooooo close. Literally looked like a low-flying plane. Yes I know the sun's 93 million miles away and it's rather visible too.

Badass. Hope the people that got injured weren't hurt too bad though.

well, these videos are not of the asteroid that will pass the earth by in 17,000 miles distance - that one will be barely visible with binoculars


Oh, really? Didn't know there were two. How close is this one?

Zero



Lafiel on 15 February 2013
Soriku said:


Oh, really? Didn't know there were two. How close is this one?

this one hit siberia, so 0 miles ;) thats why it's a meteorite (= an asteroid that made it through the atmosphere and hit earth's surface) and not an asteroid

it's likely to be a small former fragment of the asteroid though