Airbrush Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 (edited) It was a once in about a hundred years event. A meteor of 50 feet across, about 10,000 tons, traveling 11 miles per second before impact, exploded 9 - 12 miles high with the energy of 30 Hiroshima bombs or 500 kilotons. It blew out windows 23 miles away. Anyone find any other info about this? I suppose something this large could have crashed over the ocean or desolate area, since the Tunguska event of 1908, without getting any attention, or could be mistaken for lightning and thunder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Russian_meteor_event http://phys.org/news/2013-02-russia-asteroid-impact-esa.html Edited February 21, 2013 by Airbrush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 ! Moderator Note Airbrush, Though this is certainly a fascinating topic, we have already requested that people divert their posts about it to the already active thread: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/72880-meteorite-fall-in-chelyabinsk/ I'm going to close this thread as staff have already merged one of yours into the older thread, but please feel free to copy your OP here into the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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