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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2013 16:29:46 GMT -6
Bob Jacobs?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2013 16:36:44 GMT -6
The meteor is believed to have exploded over the Ural mountains, resulting 100,000 tonne rock to crash-land on earth and produce a large hole in Lake Chebarkul in the Chelyabink area. Researchers have discovered over 50 little pieces of the meteor and divers are trying to collect a number of lumps of the meteorite from Lake Chebarkul for study purposes. www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2013/03/ufo-is-thought-to-have-saved-thousands.htmlwhat do you mean, Ck? We also have the crator in Arizona, and I don't know about other crators near there. (edit: referring to reply #26 )
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Post by skywalker on Mar 9, 2013 19:31:57 GMT -6
It would appear that the recent meteor over Russia pretty much disintegrated when it exploded. There weren't any large chunks left to make craters...at least not that anybody has found yet. This meteor was just a fraction of the size of the one in 1947 and that one was a fraction of the size of the Tunguska meteor. The bigger they are the more damage they do. The one that left that crater in Arizona was pretty good sized also but it pales in comparison to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That rock left a crater over 100 miles wide! The edges of it look like a mountain range.
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Post by lois on Mar 10, 2013 0:36:55 GMT -6
Bob Jacobs? Thank you ..yes Bob . wonder why sky ask me that. I guess Jacobs made me think David as I have known of him for such a long time
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2013 9:02:11 GMT -6
its Ok . I do this with some peoples names, too.
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Post by auntym on Aug 7, 2013 10:41:35 GMT -6
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=russian-meteor-might-have-siblings-in-towAugust 5, 2013 Russian Meteor Might Have Siblings in TowOrbital estimates have pinpointed 20 asteroids on similar paths to the space rock that exploded near Chelyabinsk in FebruaryBy Maggie McKee and Nature magazine In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia, provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 a meteorite contrail is seen. The house-sized rock that exploded spectacularly in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February may have been a member of a gang of asteroids that still poses a threat to Earth, a new study says. The evidence is circumstantial, but future observations could help to settle the question. On 15 February, an 11,000-ton space rock slammed into the atmosphere above Russia, producing the most powerful impact since the Tunguska explosion in 1908 — which may also have been caused by an asteroid — and generating a shock wave that damaged buildings and injured more than 1,000 people. The 18-meter-wide object could not be seen as it approached the planet because it was obscured by the Sun's glare, but observations made while it was in the atmosphere have enabled several groups of researchers to estimate its orbit. However, the estimates varied so much that there was no clear orbit that researchers could use to hunt for sibling asteroids on a similar path, say Carlos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, orbital dynamicist brothers at the Complutense University of Madrid. They decided to tackle the problem with brute computational force, running simulations of billions of possible orbits to find the ones most likely to have led to a collision. They then used the average of the ten best orbits to search a NASA asteroid catalogue for known objects on similar paths. They found about 20, ranging in size from 5 to 200 meters across, they report in an article to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. CONTINUE READING: www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=russian-meteor-might-have-siblings-in-tow MORE LINKS: www.ufodigest.com/article/dont-panic-0807
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Post by skywalker on Sept 12, 2013 22:02:02 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 22:44:40 GMT -6
Huge Chunk of Russia Meteorite Pulled from Lake Divers raised a coffee-table-size chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteorite from its muddy home at the bottom of Russia's Lake Chebarkul on Wednesday (Oct. 16). The massive boulder is the largest fragment recovered so far from the Feb. 15 Russian meteor explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk that injured more than 1,000 people. The blast scattered meteor shards across the region and left holes in the ice-covered Lake Chebarkul, so it was assumed that big lumps fell into the lake. Later surveys revealed possible extraterrestrial rocks buried beneath the bottom mud. Recovery crews have since pulled five meteorite chunks from the lake, RT.com reported. View gallery." Huge Chunk of Russia Meteorite Pulled from Lake Fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite, showing the fusion crust -- the result of a previous collision or … The 5-foot-long (1.5 meters) rock dragged from the depths Wednesday was 65 feet (20 m) below the surface. After it was pulled to the surface with cables, the meteorite fragment fractured into three pieces, shown live on Russian television. Together, the dark, craggy stones weighed more than the scale brought to the lake could read, tipping in at more than 1,250 lbs. (570 kilograms), AFP reported. Preliminary tests confirmed the rocks are from the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Pictures and video from the retrieval effort show telltale signs of the meteorite's fiery trip through the atmosphere. There's a fusion crust — a shiny, glassy layer of black material that forms when the outer portions of the rock melt. The rock also appears to have regmaglypts, shallow surface indentations that look like thumbprints. The Chelyabinsk meteorite is a mix of different types of ordinary chondrites, the stony meteorites that crash into Earth most often, researchers have found. The mélange inside the fragments suggests the meteorite may have collided with another asteroid early in its history. Researchers have estimated that the asteroid that caused the Chelyabinsk fireball was about 55 feet (17 m) wide and weighed 10,000 tons when it streaked into Earth's atmosphere. It hit on Feb. 15, the same day a 130-foot (40 m) asteroid called 2012 DA14 gave Earth a close shave, missing our planet by just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers). But the two space rocks are unrelated, experts say. news.yahoo.com/huge-chunk-russia-meteorite-pulled-lake-165439690.html
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Post by skywalker on Oct 17, 2013 17:23:36 GMT -6
Nice! I would love to have that big rock to put in my living room. I wonder how many more of those humongous pieces are over there? If some landed in the lake then others must have landed on the ground. Or do you think maybe the ones that hit the ground shattered from the impact while the water softened the blow and allowed the other chunks to stay intact? Since it's a stony meteorite instead of an iron-nickel meteorite it would probably be pretty fragile.
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Post by auntym on Nov 19, 2014 13:26:45 GMT -6
siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0021-strange-explosion-turns-night-to-day-in-the-urals/ Strange 'explosion' turns night to day in the UralsBy The Siberian Times reporter 18 November 2014 Emergency services refuse to comment cause of extraordinary blast in the dark sky. Published on Nov 18, 2014 Video courtesy: Vyacheslav Bulatov A huge flash lit up the early evening darkness, as shown by images taken from a dashcam on a road close to Yekaterinburg. The sky suddenly turns orange-red at 17.39 local time (though the dashcam records it as 18.39). For the next 11 seconds an orange light with yellow and white in the middle engulfs the entire sky. 'For a few moments night turned into dazzling day, then everything went dark again,' said one witness. The explosion came on 14 November but images only appeared of it today; strangely no sound was picked up. Theories for the explosion included a missile or an object from space. Yet it did not have the same shape or pattern as the Chelyabinsk meteorite which exploded over the Urals in February 2013. 'I found nothing about it in the news. Did anyone else see it? What was it? Pictures: Vyacheslav Bulatov The author of the footage wrote on the web: 'On Friday (November 14 , 2014 at 5.40pm) I observed a flash in the sky, on the road on the way to Rezh. 'I found nothing about it in the news. Did anyone else see it? What was it?' The glow was also filmed by the teenagers from Yekaterinburg on mobile cameras. The main question from witnesses is 'What was it?' According to regional television neither meteorologists nor scientists can explain the strange phenomenon. A local observatory indicated nothing fell from the sky on the day of the flash. Local officials from the Emergencies Ministry refused to comment on the happening. A local observatory indicated nothing fell from the sky on the day of the flash. Picture: Vyacheslav Bulatov MORE PHOTOS & CONTINUE READING: siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0021-strange-explosion-turns-night-to-day-in-the-urals/
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