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Russian news agency Russia Today is reporting that the Russian military shot down the meteorite at around 20 km altitude, shattering it into smaller pieces. This rumor is unconfirmed though.
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Ural region
A meteor shower in central Russia has caused some injuries and shattered windows, reports say.
Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed into the Ural region.
Chelyabinsk residents reported shaking ground, windows being shattered and car alarms being set off during the shower.
The traces from falling objects could be seen in Yekaterinburg, about 200km (125 miles) south-east of Chelyabinsk, a witness told the Reuters news agency.
"A meteorite exploded above the Chelyabinsk region," an emergencies ministry spokesman told Interfax.
A witness in Chelyabinsk told Reuters that a huge blast was heard early on Friday morning and that shockwaves were felt in a 19-storey building in the town centre.
The Interfax news agency said that preliminary reports indicated that four people were injured by flying glass.
People in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions reported seeing "burning objects" in the sky.
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I had thought at first this must be another of those Russian "alien" hoaxes, but the BBC is reporting it with a variety of video, still and audio accounts.
WarOne wrote: It's rushing to the top of Google's news searches.
It is either a very elaborate hoax or the real deal.
if its the real deal it was caught on a bunch of cameras. People are reported dead now in the building it hit.
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Easy E wrote: Regarding that first video, is it common for drivers to simply video tape themselves driving around?
Ubiquitous dashboard cams were a measure taken to provide hard evidence as to the guilty party in the case of an accident, as responding police were/are notorious for accepting bribes. Or so I've read, anyways.
first Tunguska now this? space rocks must like caviar or something. oh well, time for the gold rush for meteorite fragments to begin, do you realize how much those go for?
Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
actually yea, if you're going by black market standards (the only place you can buy an arm and a leg) the cost of a good meteorite for a collector is about equivalent to the cost of a surgical cadaver arm and leg last time I checked. granted the price of arms and legs for surgical practice are not exactly set in stone, so I may be off depending on the market.
Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
yeri wrote: first Tunguska now this? space rocks must like caviar or something. oh well, time for the gold rush for meteorite fragments to begin, do you realize how much those go for?
What's really comical about it though; most people won't know a meteorite fragment from a hunk of granite or shale or 'insert random rock here'.
A couple years ago, the Royal Ontario Museum held an open invitation for anyone to bring in what they thought were meteorite fragments after a meteor storm... Halarity insued as hundreds of people brought in everything but! (because solid iron ferrite is just oh-so-light apparently?! )
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In Soviet Russia, Meteor gets hit by you!
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Are we sure it was a Meteor?
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
and as of 2:25 EST we are in the clear from DA14 2012, relax folks. we're not getting hit by the big one today.
Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
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I think a satellite would have broken up in the atmosphere leaving only a few small relativly harmless chunks to fall to earth. Certaintly not capable of hurting over 1000 people.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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