Amazing Footage of Russian Meteorite as It Explodes Upon Impact | Video Photos
A 10-ton meteor streaked at supersonic speed over Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured hundreds of people possibly upwards to over a thousand. Many locals feared they were being bombed. Watch this first video below. I would think the exact same thing. The explosion shakes the ground. You can hear glass shattering all around the man taking the video. Car alarms go off all around. Then you see the people in the street panicking and running for cover.
Meteor Slams into Russia 2013 (HD)
[youtube http://youtu.be/iuEyTEDc9_w].
This video is a compilation of several dashboard cameras which happened to be facing the direction of the meteorite as it went overhead. Nice clips as the cameras are stationary so no shake typical of hand held bystanders.
Spectacular Footage of the Meteor Hitting Russia 2013 (HD)
[youtube http://youtu.be/RX0oRfj3Hd4].
This footage was from a bystander in the local area so the impact and explosion is heard just like in the first video above. In this one, you can hear even more explosions after the first blast. Then the camera films the damage and broken windows the building suffered.
Chelyabinsk meteorite impact in Russia 2013
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Friday, Feb. 15, 2013: A circular hole in the ice of Chebarkul Lake where a meteor reportedly struck the lake near Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, Russia. Source: AP2013
February 15, 2013: Broken windows and debris are seen inside a sports hall following sightings of a falling object in the sky in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Feb. 15, 2013: In this photo, municipal workers repair a damaged electric power circuit outside a zinc factory building with about 6000 square feet of a roof collapsed after a meteorite exploded over in Chelyabinsk region. Source: AP2013
Feb. 15, 2013: In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia, provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, on Friday, a meteorite contrail is seen. (AP Photo/Nasha Gazeta) Source: AP2013
February 15, 2013: A man identifying himself as Viktor poses for a photograph after receiving treatment for injuries sustained from a shock wave that followed after a falling object was sighted in the sky in the Urals region, at an emergency room in a hospital in Chelyabinskk, Russia. Source: Reuters
Feb. 15, 2013: In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru, a woman cleans away glass debris from a window after a meteorite explosion over Chelyabinsk region. (AP Photo/ Yevgenia Yemelyanova) Source: AP2013
Damage caused after a meteorite passed above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/www.chelyabinsk.ru/Handout
Feb. 15, 2013: In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a meteorite contrail is seen in Chelyabinsk region. Source: AP Photo/Sergey Hametov
Map locates Chelyabinsk, Russia, where a meteor caused explosions in the area. Source: AP
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Wow, excellent post Michelle! 😀
Thanks! That was really something….
You’re so welcome. Sorry for the long absence… 😳
Not a problem. How are you? I’ve started a new job a couple months ago. LOL… I work at home on my computer all day, but rarely have the time to blog anymore, so I’m scarce, too.
Just getting back to everyday blogging myself. I’d kinda lost interest for awhile…
My first thought was to wonder if that was a piece of the meteorite that passed 17,000 miles above earth at about the same time (?)
I wonder the same thing, too. It’s very possible. A meteor is not one smooth round object. It has little fragments breaking off all the time. Pretty coincidental if not. I was just waking up when that came on Good Morning America, and I sat bolt upright and my jaw hit the floor. That was so cool!!! I would have loved to have seen it!
According to this BBC article, the two events were just a “cosmic coincidence,” but I have a hard time believing that myself. 😕
Well, I don’t believe they knew about the meteorite before it hit so not sure how they could say it wasn’t from the meteor.
My thoughts exactly! 😀
Fascinating event, but I’m glad I was here and it was there.
I would have loved to have been there and witnessed it.
With as many eyes in the sky as there were tracking a wayward asteroid…it seems all the more amazing that no one saw this coming? We can photograph a pack of cigarettes on earth from space, but miss a bus-sized object moving at great speed this close to our planet.
Too fast for radar, I’m pretty sure. Hell, they missed a freakin’ commercial jetliner heading to the Pentagon, didn’t they??? 😉
Do I smell a 9/11 conspiracy? The Pentagon attack never made any sense at all based on the damage and remains of the “jet”. But I do wonder how many people could keep so big a secret?
That is the biggest lie in all of history.