meteor hits central russia

Friday’s meteorite which struck Chelyabinsk carried a mass of around 40 tonnes, possibly making it the largest recorded object to hit the Earth since Tunguska. It was around 15 meters across when it entered the atmosphere, according to one expert.



"I'm not aware of anyone who saw this coming," Heiner Klinkrad, head of the European Space Operations Centre in Germany, said

When you throw a square stone in a lake does it make a square ripple?

The kinetic energy disperses in a round pattern.

Hope this helps.

In the solid state, chemical bonds are stronger than the kinetic energy of the atoms. The atoms are locked into their crystal lattice positions. Kinetic energy dispersal in solids is much lower. Energy would still radiate similar to seismic waves, but the ice wouldn't fracture in a circle. Does ice have cleavage?

Interesting thing about DA14...it's been slowing down as it gets closer to Earth (went from a consistent 6.3 Km/s to 6.1 km/s) over the last couple of hours...shouldn't this thing be speeding up slightly as it enters Earth's gravitational pull?!?!?

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SEE THE SHOCK WAVE HIT.

Russian nuclear officials report their sites unaffected by Chelyabinsk near-miss meteorite shower
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Area densely populated by nuclear facilities and contamination

The most infamous nuclear facility in the area, located in the hard-hit Chelyabinsk Region, is the Mayak nuclear-fuel processing plant which houses some 560 tons of spent uranium fuel, 30 tons of reactor grade plutonium and 500,000 tons of solid radioactive waste. It also stores unknown quantities of weapons grade uranium and plutonium.

Mayak was the site of a major accident in 1957 caused some of the worst nuclear contamination in the Soviet Union’s history, second perhaps only to the infamous Chernobyl reactor accident in the sheer volume of the radioactive emissions it released. The accident occurred when a waste storage tank exploded and showered radionuclides throughout the Southern Urals, leaving areas that are still heavily contaminated with radiation even today.

Other sensitive nuclear sites in the area include Lake Karachai - only some 60 kilometers from where the meteorite hit - which Mayak used as a liquid waste dumping facility for decades. Some 120 million curies of radioactivity are concentrated there.

The lake is now desiccated and summer winds carry radioactively contaminated dust particles into the air. An asteroid hit in the lake bed, said Igor Kudrik, an expert on Russia’s nuclear industry with Bellona, could severely exacerbate the amount of radionuclides blown into the atmosphere.

Likewise, the Techa River Cascade, into which Mayak has dumped so much liquid radioactive contamination over six decades that the river itself is considered nuclear waste, could also spread radioactive contamination were it hit by an asteroid.


Local NGOsare lobbying for the entire river to be covered by a cement sarcophagus, a la Chernobyl’s exploded reactor No 4.

Other radioactive waste and spent nuclear storage sites that are speckled throughout the region could also have posed a danger.





The Most Contaminated Place on Earth: Chelyabinsk-40
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We’re quite familiar with the lore of various secret United States nuclear facilities; their storied history and operations being shrouded in secrecy has fascinated us for decades. What we seldom hear about are the secret nuclear laboratories and test facilities of our greatest Cold War opponent – the former U.S.S.R. One particular installation – Chelyabinsk-40 – was the first Soviet plutonium production complex and the site of three separate massive nuclear incidents. Until recently this area was not on maps and the Russian government denied its existence.

Nobody gives a shit.

look at the moon see the shape of those creators?????
round.
impact creator are always round....it is physics.

Not always round. If they come in at a very low angle they can make a series of skipping gouges.

I have not heard what this impact looked like though.

If we were the CIA we could look at live satellite images huh?

Since it happened the chances are 100%.

So 1,000+ people injured, huge asteroid, yet I can't find a single video that actually shows its impact. You just see the flair, than the boom. This explosion has to be huge if its blowing windows out miles and miles away.

At my old house a huge propane tank blew up about a mile away, big enough to see a huge mushroom cloud and shake the house. No broken glass or anything though. I was able to see the explosion lingering in the air for about a half hour. Why have we not seen a single impact or actual views of its explosion? All I see is breaking glass from a huge explosion and booming sounds.

So 1,000+ people injured, huge asteroid, yet I can't find a single video that actually shows its impact. You just see the flair, than the boom. This explosion has to be huge if its blowing windows out miles and miles away.

At my old house a huge propane tank blew up about a mile away, big enough to see a huge mushroom cloud and shake the house. No broken glass or anything though. I was able to see the explosion lingering in the air for about a half hour. Why have we not seen a single impact or actual views of its explosion? All I see is breaking glass from a huge explosion and booming sounds.

Not always round. If they come in at a very low angle they can make a series of skipping gouges.

Do you actually think that a propane tank exploding can be compared to a 300 kiloton airburst? if so turn around and leave because this is way over your head. Also there are 3 confirmed impact sites, one of them being into the top of a building, and at least one in a lake. This has happened many times in many places before and will happen many times again ffs. Let me guess, you think haarp caused this. I guess OBAMA caused the last Gama Ray as well??

Landed in a frozen lake.

Most of it exploded ... the small remainder of what was left landed in that lake ... good lord hope there is not some dorky conspiracy now about that hole in the ice from a piece of the shit that exploded above ...

chelyabinsk is a nuclear research and weapons testing area, has had serious nuclear incidents in its past(1957) is one of the worst polluted areas on the planet and has had ufo sightings out here as well also large gold ore deposits and is a huge metallurgical refinery area as well, something else is going on here and im not buying a meteor story.

So 1,000+ people injured, huge asteroid, yet I can't find a single video that actually shows its impact. You just see the flair, than the boom. This explosion has to be huge if its blowing windows out miles and miles away.

At my old house a huge propane tank blew up about a mile away, big enough to see a huge mushroom cloud and shake the house. No broken glass or anything though. I was able to see the explosion lingering in the air for about a half hour. Why have we not seen a single impact or actual views of its explosion? All I see is breaking glass from a huge explosion and booming sounds.

I'm still not %100 sure what to make of this apparent Meteorite - Somethings seem off to me,for example the punched out hole in the wall and roof of the Zinc Factory where it was claimed part of the Meteorite struck causing the damage seen,here -


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Coupled with this regarding the future worth of the plant -

' Chelyabinsk Zinc expects RAS net profit to tumble 90% in 2013

CHELYABINSK. Dec 7 (Interfax) - Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant (RTS: CHZN) is planning to post a net profit of 55 million rubles to Russian Accounting Standards next year, compared to an anticipated net profit of 594 million rubles in 2012, the plant's chief executive, Rinat Shakirzyanov told Interfax, citing the approved budget for 2013' [link to business.highbeam.com]

And then,whadayaknow -

'Zinc rose in London, narrowing this week’s drop, after an exploding meteorite caused damage at a Russian plant producing the metal.

A shock wave caused by the blast destroyed a wall in a concentrate warehouse at the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant site and smashed windows in other buildings, spokesman Evgeny Ponomarev said today. The plant is working as usual, he said. Chelyabinsk Zinc produced 160,000 metric tons of refined zinc and alloys last year, according to the company website.

“Your immediate knee-jerk reaction is that this is potential supply being taken out of the market,” Nic Brown, head of commodity research at Natixis SA in London, said by phone today. “And then you spend time thinking, ‘How much impact does this have?’”' [link to www.bloomberg.com] !

So as far as the Zinc Factory is concerned I am suspicious

Guys, I think that was just the lid of Fukushima reactor #3 coming back down....nothing to worry about.

look at the moon see the shape of those creators?????
round.
impact creator are always round....it is physics.