Very Large Meteorite Fell Down in Siberia

Pravda ^ | 15:33 2003-03-18

[ckilmer]

there was a report of one going through the roof of a house in New Zealand this week end.

[Seeking the truth]

I always thought that black goo was explosive!

[Dog Gone]

If the meteorite had a greater speed, for example, 25 kilometers per hour

I think I can run faster than that. I know I can bike faster than that.

[asgardshill]

there was a report of one going through the roof of a house in New Zealand this week end.

I'd not heard that. If true, guess I'd better pop for the reinforced umbrella during the thunderstorms expected here next week.

[aculeus]

Meanwhile in WaPo ...

On a foggy October evening in 2002, pilot Thomas J. Preziose took off in a small Cessna airplane ...

[bayourod]

You probably have sudivision restrictions.

[John Lenin]

The sky is falling ! Litterally. doh

[GoLightly]

Yes, it's true. Your umbrella can deal with 2 pound rocks falling from the sky? Where can I get one of those?

[ckilmer]

July 31, 2003 http://www.platinum-celebs.com/technology/news/2003_07_31.html

'NUCLEAR' METEORITE

A giant meteorite that struck the Irkutsk region of Siberia last
September (02) had the force of a nuclear bomb of medium power
and devastated a huge area of taiga - according to Russian
scientists. 'NUCLEAR' METEORITE A giant meteorite that struck the Irkutsk region of Siberia last September (02) had the force of a nuclear bomb of medium power and devastated a huge area of taiga - according to Russian scientists. A 10-strong expedition of scientists and doctors was unable to identify and reach the place where the meteorite landed until mid-May. It was finally located in the very remote, wooded semi-mountainous region of Bodaibo, northeast of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. Expedition leader Vadim Chernobrov told a news conference, "Over an area of 100 square kilometres (36 square miles) trees were smashed in a pattern characteristic of very powerful blast effects." He said that the meteorite had disintegrated before hitting the ground and had left about 20 craters, up to 20 metres (65 feet) in diameter, with an explosion "equivalent to the power of an atomic bomb of medium size". Posted by MrDee at 09:09 AM | Comments (0)

[GoLightly]

Yabutt, no one actually reads all of the fine print anyway.

[Publius6961]

If satellites were able to detect the object at leat twice (at 62 km and 30 km altitude), then surely they have a record of its direction of travel. That, and a little math can narrow down the area of impact (if any) to a relatively small area.

[freeagle]

Excuse my ignorance on this one, but why do they seem to hit in the northern hemisphere?

[gargoyle]

...Interesting, save this for after dinner. Thanks fer ther post, good on yer...

[Publius6961]

Please make a careful note. The media always gets it wrong, and it is maddening, because civilians have a smaller hope of getting the correct information.

40 square miles is a square 6.32 miles to a side, or a rectangle 2 miles wide and 20 miles long.

40 miles square is always 1600 square miles.

[gargoyle]

...Maybe God above is practicing on earth with His pea shooter. Hmmm, will have to take a look at the global impact map. Don't know...

[ckilmer]

http://groups.msn.com/alanboylescosmiclog/102002archive.msnw?action=get_message&mview=&ID_Message=168

From: AlanB  (Original Message)

Sent: 10/4/2002 8:54 PM

Cosmic Log Archive
By Alan Boyle
Copyright 2002 MSNBC
This is an archived version of a Cosmic Log entry, and some links or other features may be nonfunctional. For fully functional versions of current items, check Cosmic Log on MSNBC

Meteor alert in Russia: The Russian newspaper Pravda reports that witnesses in Bodaibo, a city in the Siberian region of Irkutsk, saw a “very large luminous object” fall to Earth — accompanied by a flash and a thunderous sound.
       “The site of the fall is situated very far from any settlements, but locals felt a strong shock, which could be comparable to an earthquake,” Pravda reported Thursday.
       Although the facts so far (including the time element) are sketchy, Russian scientists are suggesting that the object was a meteorite — and that meshes with the first impressions from Benny Peiser, an anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University who specializes in the effects of deep impact.
       Peiser, who passed along the reports via his Cambridge Conference Network, told the British-based Ananova online news service that descriptions of the blast would point to “a rather significant impact event.” South Africa’s Independent Online, meanwhile, quotes scientists in Irkutsk as saying no injuries were reported.
       The news flashes were eerie on two counts: First, it arose just as experts were telling Congress that even relatively small-scale meteor strikes could set off nuclear alarms — and that more attention needs to be paid to the potential threat. Second, the most recently recorded significant impact also took place in Siberia, in the forests of Tunguska 94 years ago, and scientists have been warning for some time that we might be due for another Tunguska-level blast.
       Stay tuned for details as they dribble out.

[Tall_Texan]

Bet that made a few bears sh** in the woods...

[Tax Government]

Excuse my ignorance on this one, but why do they seem to hit in the northern hemisphere?

Excuse my ignorance also, but it is probably only because most observers are in the northern hemisphere.

[ckilmer]

'Vitimskii' meteorite

The scientists of three research institutes of Irkutsk left for the past output into the Mamsko - Chuyskiy region. For scientists it was possible to take samples of snow, which can contain the cosmic dust it it had to remain on the way of the incidence in the  meteorite. Many trees with the damages by metal are discovered. Now the assembled materials are processed. In their medium they will deliver into Irkutsk. But scientists with confidence even now speak that on the night of 25 September 2002  in this place above the Earth exploded the meteorite.

 

Russian scientists locate site of meteorite crash

The Associated Press

Published: June 21, 2003, 03:57:37 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian scientists say they have found the spot in Siberia where a giant meteorite came crashing to Earth last year.

The researchers from the Kosmopoisk, or Space Search, research group told Rossiya state television Thursday that they believe a burned-out tract of taiga about 700 miles north of the city of Irkutsk is the spot where one or more meteorites fell on Sept. 25.

Vadim Chernobrov, Kosmopoisk's coordinator, said the meteorite crash was "comparable to the force of a medium atomic bomb."

"In other words, this is a colossal historic event," he told Rossiya. "I'm simply happy that we were the first at the epicenter."

Chernobrov said that after examining the site, the research team believes two meteorites actually fell, not just one, as previously thought.

 

        The images captured from Euronews TV       

[asgardshill]

Your umbrella can deal with 2 pound rocks falling from the sky?

You've got a point. It never worked very well for Wile Coyote either.