Meteor Strike Fireball From Space
Just watched a documentary on the meteor strike at Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Taped it quite a while back, just got around to watching it..
Fascinating stuff & just quietly, a little bit scary...
Anyone else seen the documentary, amazing how by analysing shadows thrown by the meteor & captured by dashcams, city security cams, etc.. they were able not only to track it's path but, calculate it's orbit & where it came from originally (the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter).
The power of the air explosion (calculated at 30x the strength of the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima) 15 miles up & a blast wave which occurred 3 minutes after the flash of the meteor breaking up...
Absolutely amazing stuff...
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