Yesterday (February 14th 2013) A Meteor storm bombarded the Ural area of russia, 500 people are injured mainly due to the shockwave the airbursts caused. The main cause for the injuries are the broken windows, property damages are pretty bad.
Videos of the meteors themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4ZxXYscmgRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZlUgCmJE04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJWhnUAk0w
Videos of the shockwaves (very loud, put volume down)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxi0vbqIxBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfA2hcf7k7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LggpKHJVA_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wkMuEzYwkw
Edit: February 14th? hmm...
So... Earth just got kissed by a meteor?
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 16, 2013, 07:22:09 AM
So... Earth just got kissed by a meteor?
I'm thinking more along the lines of asking us how our space program is coming along :P
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 16, 2013, 07:22:09 AM
So... Earth just got kissed by a meteor?
More like a firecracker went off close enough to feel.
Quote from: Ignuus66 on February 16, 2013, 07:31:53 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 16, 2013, 07:22:09 AM
So... Earth just got kissed by a meteor?
I'm thinking more along the lines of asking us how our space program is coming along :P
It looks like space is starting to get impatient. If we aren't going to visit it, then it's going to visit us.
the day of the incident my physics professor greeted the class with youtube clips, impressive. and at the time there were over 900 injured, which did not dissuade him from using it as a teaching tool as the class was already on velocity and trajectory
Quote from: Brunhidden on February 18, 2013, 11:05:21 AM
the day of the incident my physics professor greeted the class with youtube clips, impressive. and at the time there were over 900 injured, which did not dissuade him from using it as a teaching tool as the class was already on velocity and trajectory
He could have used it as a teaching tool for so much else... But yeah, smart teacher!
It was quite a fascinating thing to watch from the videos. You could hear a number of dull echoing thuds after the initial explosion of the falling body.
I wonder if those were confirmed, as I suspected, as being the impacts of fragments.