Meteor Russia 2012...
A meteor weighing ~10 tons and traveling at
supersonic speed (54,000 kph or 33,000 mph) streaked over the Russian
Ural Mtns. earlier today at 9:20 am local time (0320 GMT). About 400
injuries are reported, mostly due to broken glass and damage to a local
factory.
A
meteoride is a small piece of space debris –
usually part of comets or asteroids – that is on a collision course with
the Earth. When meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere they are called
meteors. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere, but if they
survive the frictional heating and strike the surface of the Earth they
are called
meteorites. Currently, there is no technology to intercept such fast moving objects from crashing on earth.
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Meteor Russia 2013...
Update: February 15, 2013 7pm PST
New information provided by a
worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their
estimates for the size of the object that entered that atmosphere and
disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m.
PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15).
The
estimated size of the object, prior to entering Earth's atmosphere, has
been revised upward from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters),
and its estimated mass has increased from 7,000 to 10,000 tons. Also,
the estimate for energy released during the event has increased by 30
kilotons to nearly 500 kilotons of energy released. These new estimates
were generated using new data that had been collected by five additional
infrasound stations located around the world – the first recording of
the event being in Alaska, over 6,500 kilometers away from Chelyabinsk.
The infrasound data indicates that the event, from atmospheric entry to
the meteor's airborne disintegration took 32.5 seconds. The calculations
using the infrasound data were performed by Peter Brown at the
University of Western Ontario, Canada.
"We would expect an event
of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul
Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you have a fireball of this size we
would expect a large number of meteorites to reach the surface and in
this case there were probably some large ones."
The trajectory
of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of
the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth,
making it a completely unrelated object. The Russia meteor is the
largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia.
Image Information:
A
meteor seen flying over Russia on Feb. 15 at 3:20: 26 UTC impacted
Chelyabinsk. Preliminary information is that this object was unrelated
to asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a safe pass by Earth today.
Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Kesan serpihan Meteorite…
A circular hole in the ice of Chebarkul Lake where a meteor
reportedly struck the lake near Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930
miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked
across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power
of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows
and injuring nearly 1,000 people. (AP Photo)
sumber : METEOR mencederakan 1142 orang dan merosakkan 6 buah bandar
http://peribadirasulullah.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/meteor-mencederakan-1142-orang-dan-merosakkan-6-buah-bandar/
video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_R977sYlo&list=PLK2ccNIJVPpBRanFBHWC7c64l-b_EhywD&index=1
p/s:
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