Meteors Injure Over 400 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

[Giuseppe]

[Source: RIA Novosti, full text: (LINK).]

Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region

‎15 February ‎2013


More than 150 people have sought medical help in one of three Russian regions hit by a meteorite shower on Friday, the Interior Ministry reported.
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[Giuseppe]

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Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

[Source: RIA Novosti, full text: (LINK).]

Meteorite Shower Hits Russia, Kazakhstan

‎15 February ‎2013


A meteorite shower has hit three regions of Russia, and Kazakhstan, Russian Emergencies Ministry officials confirmed on Friday morning.
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[Giuseppe]

Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

[Source: Ria Novosti, full text: (LINK).]

Russian Nuclear Sites Unharmed by Meteors ? Atomic Agency

‎15 February ‎2013


The hail of meteor pieces that hit Russia on Friday fell in a region with a cluster of major nuclear facilities, including the country?s largest nuclear fuel-processing plant, but officials said early on that none of them were damaged and no radioactive contamination has been detected.
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[Emily]

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Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

http://www.di-ve.com/news/meteor-shower-injures-400-russia

Meteor shower injures 400 in Russia

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di-ve.com news

A meteor shower in Russia has injured over 400 people, reports have read.

The incident occurred over the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions. And a witness has stated that the sounds of car alarms and breaking windows could be heard in the area. Statements from various media in the region indicate that the majority of the injuries were from shattered glass. The shower has caused severe damage to the area, including a collapse of the roof of a 6,000 sq ft Zinc factory..

CAUTION: Do not listen to the video below with headphones on! Volume is very loud.


Взрыв Челябинск (Chelyabinsk explosion uploaded Feb 14, 2013)
"перед этим взрывом была яркая вспышка,похожая на ядерное свечение,все затихло я вышел на балкон снять след облака от вспышки...сори за мат"

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Credit: Григорий Ченцов

 

[Giuseppe]

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Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

[Source: RIA Novosti, full text: (LINK).]

Russian Meteor Leaves Trail of Damage Across Region

‎15 February ‎2013


Buildings across Russia's Chelyabinsk Region were damaged by falling meteorite particles and the shock waves and sonic booms caused by them, Russian officials said on Friday morning.
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[Giuseppe]

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[Source: RIA Novosti, full text: (LINK).]

Russia Meteorite ?Fell in Lake? ? Regional Governor

‎15 February ‎2013


A meteorite that injured scores of people in central Russia when it fell to earth early on Friday plunged into a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, the regional governor said.
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[Emily]

Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

Re: Meteors Injure Over 150 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/15/172073065/400-injured-by-blasts-as-meteor-falls-in-russia

400 Injured By Blasts As Meteor Falls In Russia

by The Associated Press
February 15, 2013 4:10 AM
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Russian news reports noted that the meteor hit less than a day before the asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid ? about 17,150 miles (28,000 kilometers). There was no immediate demonstrable connection...

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: Meteors Injure Over 400 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

[Source: RIA Novosti, full text: (LINK).]

Injuries Swell to 1,000 After Meteorite Hits Central Russia

‎15 February ‎2013


Some 1,000 people, including more than 200 children, have been hurt as a result of falling meteorite fragments Friday, mostly in the Chelyabinsk Region, the Interior Ministry said in the early evening.
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[Giuseppe]

Re: Meteors Injure Over 400 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

[Source: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, full text: (LINK).]

Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby

February 15, 2013



Preliminary information indicates that a meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia, is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14, which is flying by Earth safely today.

The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia.

The meteor entered the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second). The impact time was 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15), and the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons.

Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons.

The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere.

It is important to note that this estimate is preliminary, and may be revised as more data is obtained.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Meteors Injure Over 400 in Chelyabinsk Region (RIA Novosti, February 15 2013)

http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place

From Blogger Alexander Zaytsev

Meteorite in Russia: all videos in one place
Yesterday
I happen to live 300kms away from Chelyabinsk, where a meteorite exploded earlier today. Here are all the videos I could find featuring the meteorite explosion.
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http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place