Meteorite Explodes Over Central Russia

So yeah, this is kind of insane. A massive meteorite exploded over Central Russia and did some crazy damage. Get your bug out bags ready duders, the end is nigh.

"Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed into the Ural region.

Chelyabinsk residents reported shaking ground, windows being shattered and car alarms being set off during the shower."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

http://kotaku.com/5984474/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-you-may-begin-with-the-alien-invasion-jokes/gallery/1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/15/meteorite-explosion-shakes-russian

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/15/russia-meteorite/1921991/

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html (Plenty of videos of the events here)

Edit: For reference here's a video of the sound of it.

Been sitting up all morning watching these videos and following the news. Shit is both crazy awesome, and scary as all shitting shit. Imagine going on your morning commute and then -HOLY SHIT MORGAN FREEMAN APOCALYPSE TIME streaking past your car window.

Here's a video (in the Kotaku link too). Crazy.

Wow, that video is incredible. That's some crazy ass shit right there.

So the sound is made by the entry into the atmosphere? Also there were no casualties right? I hope not

Edit: I read the news there were injured people but from broken glass. Crazy man!

@aetheldod: Doesn't sound like any casualties, although there is reports of over a hundred injured mainly from broken glass.

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html

Lots of dash cams and pictures on this blog.

Fuck me, that's ... I kind of don't know. I want to say that's kind of cool, but that's also scary of fuck. Was there any warning to it, any scientist with an eye to a telescope who went "That looks bigger than I remember"?

It can't have been too big of an object as well, relatively speaking. It'll be interesting, seeing the commentary on it and its properties.

Wow, wild. Can't even imagine walking down the street and seeing/hearing that. Scary shit.

@extreme_popcorn said:

Man, some of those are just insane; added to the list of links in the first post.

Oh my christ, that video startled me even though I knew it was coming. That would be terrifying to be there.

Sonic boom, dude.

@mb:

Frightening and yet so fascinating.

~250 injured.

And I guess it's not the meteor we were expecting to pass over today...that sounds like bad news.

XCOM project is securing funding as we speak.

Holy fucking shit.

From Reuters, new estimates put it at over 400 injured - http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215

Does anyone have video of the crater?

@aegon: It doesn't look like there is any at the moment, although I'm sure something will come out over the course of the day.

I heard about a meteor going pass the earth in a 'near miss' on the radio yesterday. I wonder if this is related.

That must be one terrifying sight. Hot damn!

@aegon: @joshthebear: I thought the meteor didn't make it through the atmosphere. If so there wouldn't be a crater per se, but there may be damage from meteorites.

dayumn

Yeah, this is why the human race has to collectively start shoveling funds into our space programs and developing some sort of solutions to these kinds of problems ASAP. Maybe this time it is a small meteorite, but eventually it's going to be a massive meteor with the power to take out all of Russia that we will have to deal with.

Man that video of the dude driving on the highway is crazy. What a feeling it must be to be casually driving and then BLAM a fucking meteor falls from the sky. Insane.

This seems to be the crater, not really sure, because it's Russia: http://vk.com/video4046055_164571326?hash=183b7e98615893d0

Holy shit, that crater is ridiculous. It does not even look real, but more like something straight out of a movie.

It's apparently a pre-existing gas crater. Link

so this is where we all get to the Metro to ride out the apocalypse, right?

NASA says it's unrelated to 2012 DA14 on their twitter feed

Man that would have been cool.

Man, that's kind of a buzzkill.

Indeed.

Man, thank god for russian dash cams, that footage is insanely cool.

Crazy. Glad it didn't happen in a populated city or that could have been ugly.

@aegon: Yeah, that's the Door to Hell, or something like that. Still pretty nuts.

Aquasilk pls D:

According to some ham radio nerds, UVB-76 stopped broadcasting when the meteorite hit.

PANIC