15 February 2013
Meteor Crashes Into Russia Near Ural Mountains. Injuries Reported (Update with new video)
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Now with sound. Is this a coincidence with the passage (in a few hours) of the near miss asteroid 2012 DA14?? Possible I guess, but darn suspicious. Any Astronomy experts out there??
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
erjh said on 15 February 2013
@badastronomer has commented on Twitter that we can expect a blog from him about it. He’s also said that he thinks it’s unrelated to the close approach.
Dan Satterfield said on 15 February 2013
Interesting!
Daneel Olivaw (@d_olivaw) said on 15 February 2013
According to @badastronomer 2012 AD14 was about 500.00 km and coming from the south (instead of the east as this meteor has), so it doesn’t seem likely.
BTW, his post is ready:http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html
===== Roger Edwards ===== said on 15 February 2013
A direct association of this entry with 2012 DA14 is highly improbable. They would be millions of km apart at orbital speed; and this one came in from a different direction (relative to our sphere) than will 2012 DA14.
Raphael said on 15 February 2013
It’s a little strange that the dates on some videos are not correct. It needs to be verified.
Kalar said on 15 February 2013
What happened concerning the “historic discovery” that NASA was going to announce at a press conference at the AGU Dec, 2012, meeting? I can’t find any info on it.
Steven Boguslawski said on 15 February 2013
Wikipedia already has an entry for this event. Evidently the orbits of this meteor and the approaching asteroid are very different, so the timing was pure coincidence.