Meteor Strike Fireball From Space

[Outcast (Carlton)]

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...

[xelasnave]

Would not have been well recieved if over Londinium or New York or some extremely populated area.

I cant wait for them to test that crater in Gleenland and find out its age... if its 12 thousand years old it qill support all those saying there was an ancient world wide reasonably sophisticated civilization that was wiped out when the ocean came up 400 feet in a couple of years with and initial rise of 30 feet world wide in 24 hours ... and that crew think cosmic hits may have even set back humans many times in our history...certainly if you look at us as decendants of earlier life all the way back to "the really little tiny people" ..germs.
Alex

[Outcast (Carlton)]

Yeah Alex,

They discuss a couple of the larger meteor, catastrophic strikes in history throughout the documentary & then go on to discuss the possibilities of a future cataclysmic strike (that was the bit I found a bit scary) & the research that is going on to predict & track those asteroids which have the potential to inflict a catastrophic strike as well as explore some theories on what (if anything) we might be able to do about it..

The full documentary is available on Youtube if you haven't seen it already; it's not bad as documentaries go & very, very interesting stuff..

[xelasnave]

I look at all that stuff...or listen..the radio failed in the car so I just run utube and listen I can look at it later but the voice overs give you a fair bit.
Alex

[doppler (Rick)]

Apparently thousands of tiny fragments rained down on the area after the blast. The snow was very deep and the locals were able to find pieces by following the holes melted in the snow, with only the larger pieces making it to the ground below.

It's not illegal to keep meteorite fragments in Russia but there are reports that some of the local police were confiscating them presumably for their own personal gain.

Here's my tiny souvenir from that meteor blast purchased from a dealer in Lithuania.
Rick

[Outcast (Carlton)]

That is really cool Rick...

The documentary shows some of the locals & scientists hunting down fragments by looking for tiny wee holes in the snow.. I understand a large piece fell into the lake. They mention it in the doco but, don't comment on whether it was recovered.. I found out later that it was..

I'm keen to get my hands on a piece... need to find a reputable dealer to make sure I get the real deal...

Cheers

Originally Posted by doppler

Apparently thousands of tiny fragments rained down on the area after the blast. The snow was very deep and the locals were able to find pieces by following the holes melted in the snow, with only the larger pieces making it to the ground below.

It's not illegal to keep meteorite fragments in Russia but there are reports that some of the local police were confiscating them presumably for their own personal gain.

Here's my tiny souvenir from that meteor blast purchased from a dealer in Lithuania.
Rick

[doppler (Rick)]

Hi Carlton, I have bought a few small meteorites from the US but the postage is really expensive. Postage from eastern Europe is slow but cheap, here's a link to a dealer in Lithuania. https://www.ebay.com/str/andivona?_t...p2047675.l2563


Here's another old doco about the discovery and recovery of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite that fell in Russia in 1947, the sound track is really bad but it's interesting how they managed to get the pieces out of some wild terrain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V54H5_HkBRg


Rick