Meteor Impact in Russia

[Olham 164]

No one mentioned this news from yesterday yet: a meteor came down in Russia.

The sonic bang smashed hundreds of windows.

 

Also - although it had nothing to do with the meteor - an asteroid with a length of

50 Meter passed planet Earth in a distance of only 28.000 Kilometers.

The distance Moon - Earth is 356.000 - 406.000 Kilometers.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHoy12qY4bU

[MAKO69 186]

Fubar512 statred one the other day.

 

 

http://combatace.com/topic/77134-meteor-explodes-over-russia-hundreds-reported-injured/

[Flyby PC 23]

It's strange, but what do you say?

 

Nobody to blame, no precautions to be taken, just raw fate, and extraordinary bad luck for those people affected. It could have been any of us.

 

Makes you reaslise just how dangerous it is to have nuclear weapons on standby. Seeing that, you'd think you were under attack rather than watching a meteor.

[Hasse Wind 46]

There's already a thread on this topic, so I'm going to close this one.

[Hauksbee 103]

Just sneaking in a last footnote: I see there is now a Russian cottage industry in searching out meteor fragments, which sell at 40x the price of gold.