23 February 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23FEB2013

Russians Share Bizarre Explanations behind Meteor Strike
French Tribune
While there is so much buzz about the meteor strike in Russia, it has been claimed that there could be some divine message hidden in that incident. Strange it may sound, but that's what has been reported recently. It has been said in a survey published ...

Meteor Streaks Over Russia, Explodes (Photos) | Feb. 15, 2013 ...
See photos of an apparent meteor that lit up the Russian sky on Feb. 15, 2013, and created a massive blast.
www.space.com/19802-russian-meteor-blast-photos.html

Fireballs in the Sky Are Not Exclusive to Siberia
New York Times (blog)
1936: Dr. Clyde Fisher (left) of the American Museum of Natural History The New York Times 1936: Dr. Clyde Fisher (left) of the American Museum of Natural History and Abram M. Decker of Red Bank, N.J., examined an object believed to be a meteorite that ...

Dashboard cams capture Russian meteor - CBS ...
CBS News video: Dashboard cams capture Russian meteor - CBS News' Terrell Brown ...
cbsnews.com

Hear The Russian Meteor Blast's Infrasound ...
Sped up for human ears, hear the largest infrasound blast ever detected by the world's nuclear ...
livescience.com

Ilya Bryzgalov concerned about 'space danger' after meteor strike
CBS sports.com (blog)
Also, if you didn't know, he's Russian. So that makes him just about the perfect person for a Philadelphia sports talk radio station to ask about last week's stunning meteor strike near Chelyabinsk, Russia. In an interview with WIP, Bryzgalov shared ...

'Meteor threat wasn't expected for another 2000 years' – Russian Emergency ...
RT
The meteorite explosion over Russia's Urals region was an extraordinary, unexpected event, says the emergency minister. The incident triggered worldwide scientific debate over the possibility of building a meteor warning/prevention system. The ...

Russian meteor fragments listed for sale on eBay
Siliconrepublic.com
Image via eBay. Enterprising citizens are heading to eBay to sell for hundreds of dollars what are purportedly fragments of the meteor that fell over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk last week. The meteor that produced a sonic boom that shattered glass ...

Meteorite display set up at Waynesburg University museum
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 02:10 PM PST
WAYNESBURG – Scientists are now beginning to recover the fragments of a large meteor that exploded last Friday over Russia’s Ural Mountains.

NASA Says Russian Meteorite 1000 Times Larger Than Originally Estimated
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 01:11 PM PST
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Initial reports put last Friday’s (Feb 15) Chebarkul meteorite that exploded over Russia’s Urals region at about 10 tons. But after careful analysis, NASA released new information that puts the meteorite closer to 10,000 tons—1,000 times larger than the estimated size reported by the Russian Academy of Sciences ( RAS ). “My guess is that ...

THE SKY THIS MONTH: Maybe a comet in March
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 12:58 PM PST
If the recent Russian meteorite hit downtown Hamilton, everything within a 25 kilometre radius would be wiped out. That would include Burlington, Waterdown, Dundas and Stoney Creek.

Medvedev Discusses Meteorite Strike with Fidel Castro
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 12:58 PM PST
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met with Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro early on Friday as part of his official visit to Cuba and discussed various issues, including the recentmeteorite strike in Russiaâs Urals.

Online database a treasure trove of Baker’s history
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 10:57 AM PST
I learned recently that a meteorite landed in Baker County during the Great Depression. Or maybe it didnt. The surviving records on the matter fall somewhat short of conclusive.

Chelyabinsk Governor Presents Awards for Heroic Deeds During Meteorite Blast
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 06:30 AM PST
Chelyabinsk region Governor Mikhail Yurevich gave out awards on Friday to those who courageously helped to mitigate the consequences of the Feb. 15 meteorite explosion.

Injured from meteorite leave hospital
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 04:54 AM PST
Twenty-five people were discharged from hospital Friday, state media reported, a week after a meteor exploded in spectacular fashion in the skies above Russia's Urals region, shattering glass in thousands of buildings.

Report: Injured Russians leave hospital, analysis of meteorite fragments begins
Fri, 22 Feb, 2013 04:24 AM PST
Twenty-five people were discharged from hospital Friday, state media reported, a week after a meteor exploded in spectacular fashion in the skies above Russia's Urals region, shattering glass in thousands of buildings.

Treasure hunt: Russian scientists claim meteorite ...
Scientists have confirmed the extra-terrestrial origin of dozens of tiny fragments found near ...
rt.com

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HD 1080p Falling Meteorite. Russia. Метеорит. Челябинском نيزك ...
A meteor shower has caused explosions in the lower atmosphere above central Russia and the ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBgyG5ylEo

The aftermath of Russian meteor crash
Christian Science Monitor
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THE WEEK Feb 22: Meteor slams Russia
China Daily
A giant fireball from space crashed in Russia. Late last week, a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere at a rate of 30 kilometers per second, crashing into the country's Ural Mountain region. Experts said the meteorite's impact was exponentially stronger ...

Fireball highlights need for R&D, lawmaker says
Austin Business Journal (blog)
Lamar Smith, R-Texas, views things after a fireball streaked through the sky and debris from that meteor explosion damaged buildings and injured hundreds of people in the country's Chelyabinsk region. Russian officials estimated the strike caused $33 ...

Meteorite shower causes mass casualties in Russia ...
world news - A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday ...
euronews.com

Attack By Chondrite: Scientists ID Russian Meteor
NPR (blog)
The meteor that caused at least 1,000 injuries in Russia after a startling and powerful daytime explosion one week ago has been identified as a chondrite. Russian scientists who analyzed fragments of the meteor, whose large size and well-documented ...

LA Meteor Creates Bright Light Across Southern California Sky, According To ...
Huffington Post
Dozens of witnesses submitted accounts to the American Meteor Society that they saw what appeared to be a fireball, which is a very bright meteor, at about 10:30 p.m. The reports came in from across the LA area, including Alhambra, Anaheim, Burbank, ...

Caveat Emptor: Meteor Advisory
Huffington Post (blog) (satire)
"All a perp has to do is scoop the leftovers from a fireplace into little containers and slap on a label that says 'Genuine Russian Meteor Particles.' It makes astronomers crazy to hear that people still fall for this. They say it's more evidence that ...

On Nuclear Weapons as Units of Measurement
The Atlantic
Perhaps you saw the reports last week, as the world tried to wrap its collective mind around the piece of outer space that had arrived at our small piece of inner space, that the Russian meteorexploded "with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs." And, wow ...

David Letterman - Meteor Top Ten
CBS News
David Letterman - Meteor Top Ten. CBS·58,987 videos. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 419,976. 206 views. Like 7 Dislike 0. Like. ...

A piece of meteor worth 40 times the price of gold
IndiaTV
A piece of meteor worth 40 times the price of gold. IndiaTV·19,927  ...

Video - Amateur Video Captures Blast from ...
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A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded near Chelyabinsk, Russia early Friday ...
live.wsj.com

Russian meteor strike that injured 1,200 people was ...
A meteor that rained down on central Russia last week, injuring up to 1200 people, was in fact ...
independent.co.uk

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New Meteor Fireball Sightings in Florida :
theintelhub.com | The video at the bottom of the page began to go viral sometime in the past few ...
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Meteorites from Russian Fireball Possibly Found ...
Scientists with Russia's Ural Federal University say they've found 53meteorite fragments ...
space.com

BBC News - Russia sends clean-up team to ...
A big clean-up operation is going on in Russia's Ural region after Friday's spectacular meteor ...
bbc.co.uk

Was Chelyabinsk meteor actually a meteor? Many Russians don't think so.
Christian Science Monitor
Moscow. They say that Russia is the motherland of conspiracy theories, and public reaction to the sudden meteor strike a week ago that stunned people in the Ural mountains, and injured more than 1,200, seems to be proving that true. Skip to next...

Astronomer Sleuths Find Clues to 100-Year-Old Meteor Mystery
Space.com
It may be the ultimate cosmic cold case, but the 100-year-old mystery of a huge group of fireballs flying in formation through Earth's atmosphere is finally a bit closer to being solved, scientists say. By sifting through the archival records from the ...

Russia Meteor Renews Focus on Asteroid Threats
NPR
A week after a meteor exploded over Russia on the same day that an asteroid swung closely past Earth, experts discuss how the potential threats posed by near-Earth objects should be addressed. Astronomers Donald Yeomans and John Tonry weigh in on ...

Mother Earth: Chelyabinsk meteor, DA14 warns of mother of all disasters
Bayoubuzz
EARTH mother As human civilizations collectively contemplated their navels about those issues that matter most to them: wars, society, religion, economics, and international relations, several reminders about our true insignificance recently, suddenly ...

Russian Meteor Video Blocked In Germany Over Song Rights
The Inquisitr
The whole world tuned in to YouTube last week to watch the amazing Russianmeteor videos. The whole world, minus our German-speaking friends in Europe. Various versions of the Russian meteor video have been blocked in Germany over a tense song ...

Russians rush for rich meteorite fragments ...
world news - A meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural mountains and sent fireballs blazing to ...
euronews.com

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