100 injured by meteorite falls in Russian Urals

[cronus]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 17,00.html

100 injured by meteorite falls in Russian Urals

A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass.

Fragments of the meteor fell in a thinly populated area of the Chelyabinsk region, the Emergency Ministry said in a statement.

Interior Ministry spokesman Vadim Kolesnikov said 102 people had called for medical assistance following the incident, mostly for treatment of injuries from glass broken by the explosions.

Kolsenikov also said about 600 square meters (6000 square feet) of a roof at a zinc factory had collapsed. Witnesses recanted hearing loud explosions which led to panic among residents in the lightly-populated region.

A meteor streaked across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people.

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[JimC]

Saw that in the news...

Russia seems to attract the damn things - Tunguska, anyone?

[Thinking Aloud]

Two different videos here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/1 ... 1360908625

and here:

[macdoc]

this is the best one



some others

RUSSIA METEOR 15/02/2013 Russian Meteorite / Meteorito en Rusia - YouTube

RUSSIA METEOR 15/02/2013 Russian Meteorite / Meteorito en Rusia 2 - YouTube

People injured

A HEAVY meteor shower has rained down on central Russia, sowing panic as the hurtling space debris smashed windows and injured dozens of stunned locals, officials said.

Television footage showed morning traffic grinding to a quick halt in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk as a blinding flash lit up the blue sky, causing some to huddle in buildings for safety.

A medical source said that 100 people came to hospitals for medical treatment, while the emergencies ministry confirmed that cellular telephone communications were temporarily cut.

“A meteorite disintegrated above the Urals (mountain range in central Russia), partially burning up in the lower atmosphere,” the local office of the national emergencies ministry said in a statement.

“Fragments of the meteorite reached Earth, falling in sparsely populated areas in the Chelyabinsk region,” it said.

Officials said a part of the meteorite fell 80 kilometres from the town of Satki, itself 100 kilometres west of the regional centre.

Schools were closed for the day across the region after the impact blew out windows of buildings and temperatures had plunged in central Russia to -18 degrees Celsius (0 degrees Fahrenheit).

Most of those injured were treated for minor cuts and bruises from shattered glass, the local police department told the RIA Novosti news agency.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/wo ... 6578992644

[cronus]

With sound...

[Thinking Aloud]

That's cool - folks come out to see what the flashes were, and it takes that long for the sound to reach!

[cronus]

That's cool - folks come out to see what the flashes were, and it takes that long for the sound to reach!

Never seen a twin tailed meteor before myself...highly symmetric contrails like that? Whatever it is or was, it took a while to land.

[Thinking Aloud]

That's cool - folks come out to see what the flashes were, and it takes that long for the sound to reach!

Never seen a twin tailed meteor before myself...highly symmetric contrails like that? Whatever it is or was, it took a while to land.

I expect you've never seen a meteor on that scale at all, let alone studied their behaviour.

[cronus]

That's cool - folks come out to see what the flashes were, and it takes that long for the sound to reach!

Never seen a twin tailed meteor before myself...highly symmetric contrails like that? Whatever it is or was, it took a while to land.

I expect you've never seen a meteor on that scale at all, let alone studied their behaviour.

I've seen the movie. I know what a meteor trail looks like. Also anything with that much symmetry in approach raises my systems engineering radar. Besides all the meteors on Youtube flicker as they splinter and burn up. This had what appears to be a single 'multistage event' which doesn't tally with the countless Youtubes...of actual meteors. A perfect day to land and not be overly noticed if it was....you know?

[cronus]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... ussia.html

Just a coincidence. This joker was coming in from the wrong direction to be part of the main attraction for today according to the Slate article above.

[macdoc]

More

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b70_1360910617

Be very careful of the sound on the first two videos....seriously...<<<< one is the same as above

[Thinking Aloud]

That's cool - folks come out to see what the flashes were, and it takes that long for the sound to reach!

Never seen a twin tailed meteor before myself...highly symmetric contrails like that? Whatever it is or was, it took a while to land.

I expect you've never seen a meteor on that scale at all, let alone studied their behaviour.

I've seen the movie. I know what a meteor trail looks like. Also anything with that much symmetry in approach raises my systems engineering radar. Besides all the meteors on Youtube flicker as they splinter and burn up. This had what appears to be a single 'multistage event' which doesn't tally with the countless Youtubes...of actual meteors. A perfect day to land and not be overly noticed if it was....you know?

Oh, I know.

[Rum]

I'm surprised the conspiracy lot aren't already onto this. Clearly the vanguard of the alien invasion we have all been expecting.

..or the bearer of an alien virus sent to turn us into zombiez.

[klr]

From the "Why hasn't Scrumple posted this already?" category:

... to the "now merged" category.

A meteor crashing in central Russia's Ural mountains has injured at least 500 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.

Most of those hurt suffered minor cuts and bruises but some received head injuries, Russian officials report.

A fireball was seen streaking through the sky above the city of Yekaterinburg, followed by loud bangs.

The meteor is believed to have landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in the neighbouring Chelyabinsk region.

Much of the impact was felt in the city of Chelyabinsk, some 200km (125 miles) south of Yekaterinburg.

"We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud thundering sound," Chelyabinsk resident Sergey Hametov told AP news agency by phone.

Officials say a large meteor partially burned up in the lower atmosphere, resulting in fragments falling earthwards.

Thousands of rescue workers have been dispatched to the area to provide help to the injured, the emergencies ministry said.

The Chelyabinsk region, about 1,500km (930 miles) east of Moscow, is home to many factories, a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.

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continued: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

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