[video=youtube;90Omh7_I8vI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI[/video] Just saying, if I saw that shit light up the sky I'd be preparing myself to die. Supposedly it smashed a good many windows and injured a bit over 1000 people. edit: I'm surprised how calm Russian people remain when a goddamned fireball lights up the sky.
What I want to know is why every car in Russia seems to have a camera going in the windshield. In Russian news you always see this kind of footage...
It's mostly because of the way their insurance system is set up. A bunch of Drunk Russians made false claims, so they said "If you want ve money, film it", and so they did.
Also to capture interactions with the police. They actually mentioned both those things on the news report I heard about this. I was shocked that they provided pertinent information. I probably would have thought we were being attacked/bombed
Yeah...a chunk of rock and metal going 30 km/s has an insane amount of energy. This little guy apparently had more energy than the nuclear device North Korea recently tested.
Actually, it seems it was a bit larger than that: http://www.nature.com/news/russian-meteor-largest-in-a-century-1.12438 http://www.space.com/19838-russian-meteor-blast-bigger-size.html Animation made in STK(which is free!) of what I can tell: http://www.space.com/19807-raw-video-meteorite-crash-in-russia-sparks-panic.html Also: Semi-related post on dashcams and calm russians: http://www.uobgaming.com/showthread...d-thread-content&p=91989&viewfull=1#post91989
anyone got the estimated weight of this rock, I'm now wanting to work some physics magic and see how much power this boy would have had if it hit the ground in one piece.
Estimates have placed it at approximately 55 feet wide, 10,000 tons, and the force of the explosion was estimated at about 500 kilotons.
