meteor in the news that hit russia buildings the same one.....

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NiceCold

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i just heard the meteor hit russia buildings and injured hundreds of people. my question is it the same meteor that news sites talked about few days ago? the one that is about the size of a football field.

is it the same one? or different one?
 
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Different one, the meteor that is flying by today is much larger than the one that exploded above Russia.

They are saying the one that exploded above Russia was only 10 tons. The one that is missing us is 140,000+ tons.
 
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and forgot to mention that the meteor talked about few days ago is said to fly by earth the 15th if i remember right. the meteor that hit russia building is also the 15th.... so is it jus coincedance or same one?
 
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Lol no. A football field size meteor hitting a city would be a catastrophic disaster with tens of thousands dead.
 
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It's a coincidence. The one that will pass by later today has zero chance of hitting earth, and its closest approach takes it past the southern hemisphere.

The one that hit Russia was much smaller and wasn't discovered beforehand.
 
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exdeath said:
Lol no. A football field size meteor hitting a city would be a catastrophic disaster with tens of thousands dead.
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thats what i think too. it cant be the same one but why is it coincendance of the same day? 15th. the football size is said to fly by earth the 15th too right?
 
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Think about it. The media spoke for weeks about a space object that won't hit the Earth yet completely ignores the ones that will hit the Earth (and in this case damage property/injury people).
 
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dullard said:
Think about it. The media spoke for weeks about a space object that won't hit the Earth yet completely ignores the ones that will hit the Earth (and in this case damage property/injury people).
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yeah whats up with that? and it cause confusion thinking its the same one.

at first i heard about the news that hit russia building i thought it was the same one talked about few days ago.

then went to cnn front page and see the video talked about the football field size meteor while the story about meteor that hit russia building story is co exist in same front page. makes me wonder if its the same story because if it co exist in same page it would be different story.

so i came here for clarfication.




yeah why this smaller meteor that hit russia building wasnt talked about few days ago? it has impact yet it wasnt talked about in the media. did scientist not seeing it coming?
 
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dullard said:
Think about it. The media spoke for weeks about a space object that won't hit the Earth yet completely ignores the ones that will hit the Earth (and in this case damage property/injury people).
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The 2-4m object was small enough to stay undetected.

But I'm interested in the flying direction of both. The bigger one might have debris flying near it.
 
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NiceCold said:
thats what i think too. it cant be the same one but why is it coincendance of the same day? 15th. the football size is said to fly by earth the 15th too right?
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It's not like anyone can politely ask meteors to fly by or hit us on different days to prevent confusion. Nearly every news article I've come across has gone to great lengths to explain that there are two different meteors, often in the title of the article. It's not that hard to keep straight. Just a concidence.

dullard said:
Think about it. The media spoke for weeks about a space object that won't hit the Earth yet completely ignores the ones that will hit the Earth (and in this case damage property/injury people).
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NiceCold said:
yeah why this smaller meteor that hit russia building wasnt talked about few days ago? it has impact yet it wasnt talked about in the media. did scientist not seeing it coming?
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The one that hit Russia this morning was far too small to see in space. No one could have seen it coming until it hit our atmosphere and started to burn up. It was boulder-sized, not the size of a football field.
 
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Dresdenboy said:
The 2-4m object was small enough to stay undetected.

But I'm interested in the flying direction of both. The bigger one might have debris flying near it.
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Phil Plait of BadAstronomy.com wrote:

"For one thing, this occurred about 16 hours before DA14 passes. At 8 kilometers per second that’s nearly half a million kilometers away from DA14. That puts it on a totally different orbit. For another, from the lighting, time of day, and videos showing the rising Sun, it looks like this was moving mostly east-to-west. I may be off, but that’s how it looks. DA14 is approaching Earth from the south, so any fragment of that rock would also appear to move south-to-north."
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So it seems they're not traveling in the same direction and are unrelated objects.
 
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exdeath said:
Lol no. A football field size meteor hitting a city would be a catastrophic disaster with tens of thousands dead.
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I completely glossed over the word "field" in your response and had prepared a witty rejoinder to the stupid contention that a football sized meteor would leave thousands dead. Now I realize I'm the idiot. Ah, Fridays.
 
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could it be a remnant of the football field sized meteor? too coicedence. and it might be a sign of coming stuff.
 
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NiceCold said:
could it be a remnant of the football field sized meteor? too coicedence. and it might be a sign of coming stuff.
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No, they are not connected. It came from a totally different direction than the large meteor that will just miss us.
 
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Err no.

A hijack attempt in the meteor thread would be posting about how the lakers did last night.


http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting
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it has been in the past and it was on this forum. i ask something that relate to the thread but got scream at "dont hijack thread, make your own thread and ask" something like that anyway forgot whats it about. no idea. i dont know.

forget what i said. im not even sure what happend. go back to talk about the meteor.
 
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So there's no way this one over Russia could have been related to this near-Earth asteroid? It's not debris, or an object whose path was altered by this big fucker? Just seems like a weird coincidence.
 
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