Urals meteorite allegedly intercepted by Russia’s air defense (BS Alert)

The Voice of Russia ^ | February 15, 2013

[CrazyIvan]

Obama shot it down with his skeet gub.

[CrazyIvan]

Gub=Gun

[teeman8r]

it’s not a matter of where he grips it. a two ounce bird cannot carry a 2lb coconut. it can’t be done.

[GeronL]

That meteorite was coming down anyway

[rktman]

Oh, yeah,right. Like hussein would even know the difference between a gub and a gun. But I was also thinking that maybe hussein was “doing some skeet shooting”.(But not the girls.)

[Hotlanta Mike]

Or is there somebody out there who actually believes a missile caught up with a missile moving at 18 mpSECOND?

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Certainly, by the same people who believe meteorites are caused by man made global warming...

[Mozilla]

Video at the site:
http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/

[freeangel]

“Or is there somebody out there who actually believes a missile caught up with a missile moving at 18 mpSECOND?”

I’m sure that if obama told his voters that story, they would fall for it hook, line and sinker—just like all the other things that spew from his fat lips.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You can hit a bullet with the USS Missouri, if you have enough prior knowledge and a favorable geometry.

In general, reliable interception requires that the interceptor have a speed advantage, but that is certainly not a requirement. When the Navy used an SM-3 to intercept a defunct satellite in 2008, the satellite was traveling a much, much faster than the missile at intercept. (SM-3 has a top speed of 9600 km/hr, but it would have lost most of that just reaching altitude. Low earth orbit requires about 25,000 km/hr.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lake_Erie_(CG-70)#Interception_of_United_States_satellite_USA-193

But, no, they did not intercept that meteor and attempting to do so would only add chemical and kinetic energy, and possibly release harzardous chemicals, and generally only make things worse.

[Durus]

Wouldn't it be around mach 55? Still valid point, no way their missile defense system could track anything that fast and get a shot off, forget about a missile actually catching the meteor. Even if the missile were heading directly to the meteor it wouldn't get launched before the meteor was down.

[RansomOttawa]

It must have been one of those amazing new Iranian stealth missiles.

[pfflier]

Or is there somebody out there who actually believes a missile caught up with a missile moving at 18 mpSECOND?

Unfortunately, yes. We have become a science and technology illiterate society.

[jpsb]

An ICBM travels pretty fast too, the idea is to intercept it not catch up with it. That said there is no anti missile system capable of intercepting a meteorite on short notice. By short notice I mean “Holly s**t what that in the sky?” lol, but just for grins a 20 lbs anything inpacking a meteor traveling at 60,000 mph would result in a very very big band as e=mv2 and 60k mph squared is a very big number. Lets do the math! Mass is about 9kg, velocity is about 30,000m per second so the energy is about 8.1 billion joules. That is enough energy to light up 81 million 100 watt light bulbs for 1 second. Or about 2.1 kilotons of TNT, a small nuke, Not bad for a 20lbs payload.

[SunkenCiv]

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