Boom boom, shake shake the room

[Che_Guitarra]

Anybody seen this yet?  A meteor shower in Russia, and one hell of a loud bang.  Would be pretty scary stuff without any forewarning 

Here's the light show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX0oRfj3Hd4

Here's the bang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UWP0lFHT2E


I don't know how to embed youtube on this site, so links are the best I can do.

 

[Che_Guitarra]

You can hear/see all the glass shattering in the buildings in this video... not much to see after the first minute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuEyTEDc9_w

 

[CJ]

wow!

embedded youtube sucks anyway, you get 10 on one page and it takes 3 hours to load,

 

[JohnRoberts]

This was in the news and expected. Even the 17,000 mile miss, caused a shock wave that broke a lot of windows.  it surely could have been worse.


JR

 

[warpie]

C'mon you Americans. Don't pretend you know nothing  8)

 

[PRR]

> This was in the news and expected.

No, not the same rock.

The 150-foot rock missed us as expected.

Unexpectedly, and un-connected (not even similar direction), a much smaller rock wizzed into Russia.

 

[Kingston]

a much smaller rock wizzed into Russia.

Let's put it to scale still, because this particular one is fun:

a rock roughly the size of a baseball hits the earth once an hour.
another about the size of a VW beetle every single day.

This one in russia must have been slightly bigger, perhaps the size of a small house.

 

[PRR]

> perhaps the size of a small house

One estimate is in the 50-foot class.

Mini-market in meteor fragments.

Been several lesser trails this week.

Keep your SkyLab helments on.

 

[JohnRoberts]

> This was in the news and expected.

No, not the same rock.

The 150-foot rock missed us as expected.

Unexpectedly, and un-connected (not even similar direction), a much smaller rock wizzed into Russia.

Yes, I was confused about the well reported and widely expected 17,000 mile near miss, and the unrelated actual hit. Luckily for us the actual hit, was the much smaller object of the two, which perhaps help explain why it was unexpected. These candidates for collision are often discovered by private astronomers, and small objects at distance are hard to see. 

Despite the close timing of the two events they were from different directions.  So what's the odds of that? Probably not that tiny if we reduce the cut off for size of the objects. We get hit by tons of small objects that go mostly unnoticed..

JR