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Every Angle of the Russian Meteor!

Posted Feb 15, 2013 by Member 26835147

A meteor streaked through the sky and exploded Friday over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb. The meteor, estimated to be about 9 tonnes, entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 km/h and shattered about 30 to 50 kilometers above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement.

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  1. JimBrown1946
    JimBrown1946 Feb 15, 2013

    This looks more like a sinkhole I've heard of in the Middle East which is fueled by natural gas deposits. This doesn't look like an impact crater.

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  2. 4499124
    4499124 Feb 17, 2013

    Check out an incredible painting by the late artist Chesley Bonestell done in 1947: "A meteor has gouged a mile-wide hole in Manhattan"....Miller and Durant III, "Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell"....

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  3. 30301101
    30301101 Feb 19, 2013

    Someone should fly up to the cloud made by the "meteor" and test it for composition in case that was a man-made object, not a meteor.... judging by the weight and speed it could have been just as easily a man-made object. the big explosion could have been a big ol' rocket-fuel tank popping... maybe

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