{"id":608,"date":"2013-02-15T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2013\/02\/15\/chelyabinsk_rus\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:21:59","slug":"chelyabinsk_rus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2013\/02\/15\/chelyabinsk_rus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelyabinsk, Russia: This NEO just became an EO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is impressive video coming out of Russia from a meteor airburst that shattered windows and injured hundreds. The entire object did not impact the ground at hypersonic speed\u2014rather it disintegrated\/exploded high in the atmosphere. These fearsome chunks of rock are all over the place out there\u2014coincidentally, asteroid 2012 DA14 is making a very close pass today.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the near earth object surveys! I wouldn&#8217;t mind getting some advance notice if we needed to bug out of town to avoid an imminent impact \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This dash-cam video shows the full path of the meteor. I&#8217;m trying to imagine driving to work and seeing this happen before my eyes. You have mere moments to wonder whether it&#8217;s going to detonate and obliterate you and everything around you, or simply blow out a few thousand windows as you witness the event of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageblock\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1HuX-COYKLE?si=x5rUTNs-C2vaUfp4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The first 30 seconds of this next video show the surprise arrival of the blast wave. It&#8217;s pretty sobering. You grab your camera to film this awesome smoke trail that just tore into the sky overhead, and then BAM! glass flying around and car alarms going off&#8230;WOW.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageblock\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/b7mLUIDGqmw?si=fPYfhPy6zY1mWRaW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This next page holds quite a few images and videos of the airburst and some of the damage (warning, lots of images and it&#8217;s getting hammered pretty hard so the load may be slow): <a href=\"http:\/\/zyalt.livejournal.com\/722930.html\">http:\/\/zyalt.livejournal.com\/722930.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the topic of NEOs, here is a photo of the LONEOS dome I shot a few years ago on Anderson Mesa (LONEOS = Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Survey). At that time, they were still scanning for NEOs from the site. Brian Skiff gave me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/000513.html\">tour of the dome one night<\/a>, showing that evening&#8217;s survey in progress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageblock\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2007\/img20070215_LONEOSS1md.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2007\/img20070215_LONEOSS1sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re at it! Berringer Crater, just a bit down the road east of here is a pretty stark reminder of what happens when these things make it to the ground at full speed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\u201cimageblock\u201d\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2013\/img20130215_berringercrater_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2013\/img20130215_berringercrater_md.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is impressive video coming out of Russia from a meteor airburst that shattered windows and injured hundreds. The entire object did not impact the ground at hypersonic speed\u2014rather it disintegrated\/exploded high in the atmosphere. 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