 John the OFM  | 16 Feb 2013 7:44 a.m. PST |
Or is it just an AMAZING coincidence? |
| x42brown | 16 Feb 2013 8:02 a.m. PST |
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| Patrick R | 16 Feb 2013 8:04 a.m. PST |
2012DA14 went south to north, while the Chelyabinsk meteor went from east to west (or NE to SW) as was inferred by the position of the sun in the various videos. The coincidence is that the two arrived at such a short interval. |
| John the OFM | 16 Feb 2013 8:05 a.m. PST |
I don't know which is scarier. Both being on the same trajectory, or coming in from opposite directions.  |
| Gunfreak | 16 Feb 2013 8:23 a.m. PST |
"I don't know which is scarier. Both being on the same trajectory, or coming in from opposite directions. " Bugs to the right of us, bugs to the left of us. |
| Great War Ace | 16 Feb 2013 9:13 a.m. PST |
We're talking about matching trajectories, when the same dammed thing happens IN THE SAME PLACE that close together time-wise. What is it about Russia that attracts these things?… |
 Parzival | 16 Feb 2013 9:54 a.m. PST |
What is it about Russia that attracts these things?… It's the hats. But seriously, it's just that Russia is so frickin' BIG. Proportionally, no area of Russia gets any more meteor strikes than any other area of the world— Russia just has a lot more "area" in their area. |
| John the OFM | 16 Feb 2013 10:54 a.m. PST |
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| Garand | 16 Feb 2013 11:06 a.m. PST |
Read a Russian politician make the claim it was actually a US weapons test, not a meteor, directed at intimidating the great Russian people… Damon :) |
| Gunfreak | 16 Feb 2013 11:13 a.m. PST |
Yes it is an american attack, obama made a deal with the bugs if the bugs send the astroid obama will give the bugs Utah. On a diffrent note, the main explotion was mabye sevral hundred kilotons, compear that to little boy that was only about 15kt, just imagien if it had hit the ground instead of going up in the atmosfare, what if it had hit Berlin, Tokyo New York ect. sevral million people would die. |
| skippy0001 | 16 Feb 2013 12:54 p.m. PST |
It's the Klendathu re-enactment of the Ploesti Raid. Or N. Korea's DeathStar Drone. |
| Sparker | 16 Feb 2013 1:58 p.m. PST |
Why did I type 1912? Probably because its been postulated that there was mahoosive meteor strike in Russia around that time…I think the boffins postulated early decades of the 20thC from the age of the trees that started growing straight again…a very remote area, no-one saw it, but it was inferred from the shape of a particular lake and the fallen trees around it….the name of the area escapes me now – but you can definately see the path of a big detonation traced out in tree fall from imagery… |
| Dan Wideman II | 16 Feb 2013 3:06 p.m. PST |
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| kyoteblue | 16 Feb 2013 3:08 p.m. PST |
Looks like we dodged the bullet again. |
| Patrick R | 16 Feb 2013 3:29 p.m. PST |
1908 link They think Tunguska was about 100m, which is about ten times the size of this one, which sounds about right, 10m knocks out windows in a city, 100m knocks down trees and buildings. There was another similar incident in Brazil in 1930. link If the next one respects the law of averages we should get another one in about 100 years, though one could strike tomorrow, the chance of one rock striking doesn't affect the chances of a second one from striking at all. And here is a list of recent events. link |
| Sparker | 16 Feb 2013 10:54 p.m. PST |
Tunguska – Thats the badger! Thanks! |
| Ron W DuBray | 17 Feb 2013 9:43 a.m. PST |
There was one in way up state NY back in winter 97 98 that lit up the whole half of the state. I was out side and jump in the ditch at the flash and the boom almost made me sh!! my pants. It was about 20 mins before the news got to the radio and the whole time I was thinking we got nuked. |
| Ron W DuBray | 17 Feb 2013 9:50 a.m. PST |
trajectory has nothing to do with east or west. east or west will only let you know what side of the earth it missed on. |
| Parzival | 17 Feb 2013 11:09 a.m. PST |
Duck! The aliens have switched to full auto! link |
| Gunfreak | 18 Feb 2013 2:45 p.m. PST |
They now say the explotion was about 500kt, that more powerfull the most current nuklear weapons |
| Parzival | 19 Feb 2013 5:13 p.m. PST |
They now say the explotion was about 500kt, that more powerfull the most current nuklear weapons In a single warhead in active arsenals, yes (AFAWK). But for the bulk of the Cold War period, not even close. Yields of 1.5mt, 5mt, and 25mt were all in the US and/or Soviet arsenals, and yields up to 50mt were built and tested (the Tsar Bomba being the biggest one). But it's still one helluva blast, no nuclear reaction needed. Puts our weapons programs into a bit of perspective, as if the Universe is saying, "You're really not so tough…" |
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