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The most breathtaking pictures yet of Russian meteorite:
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[quote:pinkpixiexx:MV8yMTQ4NTczXzM2MzE4NzY3X0MzNkQyMjc5] [quote:CalmShock:MV8yMTQ4NTczXzM2MzE4MTM1XzU0OTlDQkEy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 34493448:MV8yMTQ4NTczXzM2MzE3NzU2X0M3MjQ1MTdB] [quote:CalmShock:MV8yMTQ4NTczXzM2MzE3MzIyXzg4MDFBQjc4] Very sweet pics. I noticed they said it was 100,000 tonnes and exploded with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs... Slight exaggerations. It was 10,000 tonnes(still massive) and while I could find anything about the magnitude of force of the explosion... 30 Hiroshima sized bombs would have leveled the area for miles... [/quote] Not true...detonating nukes high up to create EMPs to wreak havoc on electronics and communications but not damage the infrastructure is old school cold war stuff. It was huge as far as meteors go...blew up from the air pressure in the 30 mega-tonne range. Too high to cause real damage and without the radiation a nuke would bring so...no emp. Just a big, spectacular chunk of space rock that rightfully scared the crap outta a lot of people. [/quote] Well, it seems I was wrong about it not being roughly like 30 Hiroshimas... It was a 500 KILOton explosion (Hiroshima was 12.5kt). That still only works out to 0.5 megatons though. We were both wrong... Granted, I was more wrong. Fuck. http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites/russian-meteor-blast-bigger-nasa-130217.htm http://www.unitconversion.org/energy/kilotons-to-megatons-conversion.html I was right about the size though. I'll take my little victory and go play somewhere else now... [/quote] :chuckle: [/quote]
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Photographer captured exploding space rock on camera... despite thinking it was nuclear bomb that would kill him
The first 2 pics are amazing!!
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link to marateaman.livejournal.com
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Interesting video with theory of meteor explosion
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