Meteorite strikes in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 02.15.2013

[Prinz]

A piece of the meteorite

Probably the same meteorite over San-Francisco

As the Russian news say, the meteorite was bigger, but the army bombed it and it broke to pieces.

 

[BenGmanUk]

How odd that this occurred on the day DA14 passed us.

 

[fr stack]

How odd that this occurred on the day DA14 passed us.

da 14 ??

 

[Error]

da 14 ??

Huge asteroid that brushed by our orbit

 

[fr stack]

Huge asteroid that brushed by our orbit

recently ?? ive been away the last few days all this is news to me !!

 

[Flagg]

That meteorite footage still blows my mind every time I see it, especially the guy driving along and that huge ball of flame just passing over him.

That piece of meteorite, just think, thats a piece of dead planet or moon, from somewhere maybe even 100's, 1000's or millions of light years away.

 

[BenGmanUk]

Yeah DA14 is a 50m across meteor that passed us by around 17000 miles above the earths surface yesterday. On the same day a meteor exploded over Russia but is unrelated to DA14. A staggeringly large coincidence.

 

[BenGmanUk]

That meteorite footage still blows my mind every time I see it, especially the guy driving along and that huge ball of flame just passing over him.

That piece of meteorite, just think, thats a piece of dead planet or moon, from somewhere maybe even 100's, 1000's or millions of light years away.

I don't know much about it yet but imagine it would have originated from the Kuiper belt or Oort Cloud. Billions of km away but not light years.

Man I'd love to have seen that live.

 

[OutworldKeith]

That's scary as hell. It looked like the sun was falling

 

[Flagg]

I don't know much about it yet but imagine it would have originated from the Kuiper belt or Oort Cloud. Billions of km away but not light years.

Man I'd love to have seen that live.

Space really makes you think about things like size. For instance, in about 500 million years time, our sun will go nova and earth will be no more...maybe it will get blown to smithereens. Then another 200 million years later, a bit of earth in asteroid form might head somewhere else, and cause a mass extinction to some other planets prehistoric life. Or it could be what kick starts life on that planet. There's a theory that suggests life started on earth because of lots of asteroids hitting it at the beginning, and some of those asteroids carrying tiny microbes of life from dead worlds that once supported life.

 

[MashPotatoTower]

So rare! and awesome! Look at all the light!

 

[BenGmanUk]

Space really makes you think about things like size. For instance, in about 500 million years time, our sun will go nova and earth will be no more...maybe it will get blown to smithereens. Then another 200 million years later, a bit of earth in asteroid form might head somewhere else, and cause a mass extinction to some other planets prehistoric life. Or it could be what kick starts life on that planet. There's a theory that suggests life started on earth because of lots of asteroids hitting it at the beginning, and some of those asteroids carrying tiny microbes of life from dead worlds that once supported life.

Panspermia theory. It seems quite plausible, at least compared to the universe being created in 6 days lol.

Such an interesting time to be alive. I can't wait for the first images from the James Webb telescope!

 

[Konqrr]

There was one a couple years ago that flew literally over me while driving home late one night. It was around 1am and it lit up the sky like it was daytime and it was awesome.