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The most breathtaking pictures yet of Russian meteorite:
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I thought it was a missle.
Where's the meteorite?
Quoting: thisguyistheguy The meteorite is the exploding ball of fire!! You can't see a meteor as it burns up in the atmosphere. I've not heard of it being a missile? Exploding in the air? I understand it burning up in our atmosphere, but it wouldn't explode! ...It would burn up. An explosion is different than burning a rock. As it raced through the sky, the 50-foot wide chunk of space rock compressed the air ahead of it, creating the enormous temperatures that meant it exploded in a fireball somewhere between 18 and 32 miles above the ground at around 9.20am local time on Friday. Although some debris fell to earth, ‘whipping up a pillar of ice, water and steam’ and creating a 20-foot-wide crater, the damage in nearby towns was actually caused by shockwaves created by the meteor breaking the sound barrier and then exploding.Workers in the city remained busy replacing acres of windows shattered by a powerful shockwave caused by the meteor's strike, which NASA said released 500 kilotons of energy, the power equivalent to more than 30 Hiroshima bombs. [ link to www.dailymail.co.uk]
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