Meteorite Explodes Over Russia Injures Hundreds

[Kenny McCormick]

Just out of curiosity, if it had come in a few hours later, where might it have hit?

Earth moves in orbit 30 km/s, so it never occupies any "place" longer than 17 minutes & 13 seconds.

 

[Explorer]

This is absolutely crazy, a big wake up call. I kept reading the sott articles on meteors but always felt like it was a ways off from happening. Never felt how real the problem is. Guess I've been shown otherwise.

 

[Niall]

Here is an important and relevant quote in this article by Laura:

Awareness of the possibility of large impact events on Earth, although long present among a handful of the most imaginative thinkers, has come of age in this century as a result of studies of Arizona's Meteor Crater and the Tunguska fireball of June 30, 1908, in Siberia, spacecraft observations of cratering on Earth and other rocky bodies, and astronomical surveys of the near-Earth asteroid and comet populations. Appreciation of the effects of large impacts has developed in response to these studies and to the unclassified literature on the effects of large nuclear weapons. [...]

[T]he most intensively studied impact phenomenon, impact cratering, is of limited importance, due to the rarity and large mean time between events for crater-forming impacts. Almost all events causing property damage and lethality are due to bodies less than 100 meters in diameter, almost all of which, except for the very largest and strongest, are fated to explode in the atmosphere. ... Since explosions greater than 1 gigaton TNT are rare on this short of a time scale, we are forced to conclude that the complex behavior of smaller bodies is closely relevant to the threat actually experienced by contemporary civilization. [...]

[T]he large majority of lethal events (not of the number of fatalities) are caused by bodies that are so small, so faint, and so numerous that the cost of the effort required to find, track, predict, and intercept them exceeds the cost of the damage incurred by ignoring them.

(John S. Lewis, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Co-director of the NASA/University of Arizona Space Engineering Research Center, and Commissioner of the Arizona State Space Commission in: Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth, 2000; Academic Press)

 

[Gary]

I just picked up Laura's book, The Apocalypse - Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes (just ordered Comets and Horns of Moses. Thank you so much Laura and all the team for your tireless and inspiring efforts) to review, as I am intending to speak to my children over the weekend about 'celestrial threats' and show them the youtube video of the recent meteorite explosion over Russia. I have talked to them before about the PTB, psychopathy, comets and some of my strange experiences etc, in a way they can understand, via stories, real life examples etc (they are 14 and 13 now). I have a very close bond with my girls, yet telling the truth about such matters is still quite painful sometimes. But they have seen me preparing for various probabilities for a while now, and they have a right to know! This isn't a fearful, emotional reaction more a natural progression of imparting knowledge, that doesn't scare them witless but helps to inform and prepare them. So much of societal conditioning relates to 'protecting' our children from harm, invariably by telling them lies, in whole or part and keeping them in the dark (matrix). Yet as we know 'knowledge protects' :)

Anyway on page 26 "New Light on the Black Death, published by Tempus in 2006, is an intense book. Baillie a real scientist who cannot be easily maligned as a crackpot, is saying that the Black Death, one of the most deadly pandemics in human history, said to have killed possibly two thirds of the entire population of Europe, not to mention millions all over the planet, probably wasn't bubonic plague but was rather Death by Comet(s).
Baillie has the scientific evidence to back up his theory, and his evidence actually supports - and is supported by - what the people of the time were saying: earthquakes, comets, rains of death and fire, corrupted atmosphere, and death on a scale that is almost unimaginable. Most people nowadays are not really aware of what happened just 665 years ago. (The enquiring mind immediately wonders what might happen when we hit 666 years after. That would be 2013....)

This event has been a really significant 'cosmic kick in the backside'. Reading books and articles is one thing, seeing them manifest is a big wake up call indeed!

Time to start DOing!!

Its going to be an interesting year!!! :)

 

[SolarSoul]

Hey, where do you live in Germany?

Why I am asking is because today I was just reading the thread and when I stumbled upon your post I remembered the exact same thing happening to me yesterday evening. I was on the balcony having a smoke when I heard these small explosions. I was deeply engrossed in some thought processes so I did not give it any big significans. Although I wondered who the hell is blowing up fireworks, maybe some kids with leftovers from new years eve (???). What I am wondering is that either it really was some fireworks and you live just around the corner, or it was something else maybe related to the meteorite phenomena!

By the way I live in Filderstadt, near Stuttgart!

p.s.: I know "please introduce yourself in the newbie section"...., I will... soon

Just now here where I live in germany I heard several small firework like explosions. I just looked outside and one of those small explosions lid up the sky behind the clouds quite a bit, I think it was bluish.

It wasn't a big noise, just a handful firework like explosions.
It could have been fireworks, but the timing surely makes me wonder.

Anyone else hearing seeing something?

Today, or yesterday? If yesterday it could have been this:

http://www.sott.net/article/258395-Enormous-fireball-seen-from-Belgium-The-Netherlands-and-Germany-13-February-2013

Today. Just a few minutes ago before I wrote that post in Reply 69

Pass mal auf Dich auf

 

[Cosmos]

Hey, where do you live in Germany?

Why I am asking is because today I was just reading the thread and when I stumbled upon your post I remembered the exact same thing happening to me yesterday evening. I was on the balcony having a smoke when I heard these small explosions. I was deeply engrossed in some thought processes so I did not give it any big significans. Although I wondered who the hell is blowing up fireworks, maybe some kids with leftovers from new years eve (???). What I am wondering is that either it really was some fireworks and you live just around the corner, or it was something else maybe related to the meteorite phenomena!

By the way I live in Filderstadt, near Stuttgart!

p.s.: I know "please introduce yourself in the newbie section"...., I will... soon

Just now here where I live in germany I heard several small firework like explosions. I just looked outside and one of those small explosions lid up the sky behind the clouds quite a bit, I think it was bluish.

It wasn't a big noise, just a handful firework like explosions.
It could have been fireworks, but the timing surely makes me wonder.

Anyone else hearing seeing something?

Today, or yesterday? If yesterday it could have been this:

http://www.sott.net/article/258395-Enormous-fireball-seen-from-Belgium-The-Netherlands-and-Germany-13-February-2013

Today. Just a few minutes ago before I wrote that post in Reply 69

Pass mal auf Dich auf

I'm also living near Stuttgart in the area near to Reutlingen. The one explosion I mentioned wich lighted up the clouds seems to have happened behind those clouds because the clouds seem to light up as though the explosion has happened behind it. Which would suggest that it happened quite high up in the sky.

But the one explosion I saw, seems to have happened right behind a fairly high mountain (the mountain is about 700m above sea level) of that region (a bit right of it from my viewpoint), so I was thinking that maybe somebody up in that mountain has lounched a firework and that this could explain the seemingly high altitude of it.

Fireworks usually don't go that high, or so I think. I'm used to look at fireworks from that mountain (and other high mountains in that region) on New Year's Eve and I don't think that I ever saw a firework from those mountains that entered behind the clouds and exploded there. Those fireworks always seem to be pretty limited in altitude ascend.

Also, while driving back from work early last week (It must have been monday or tuesday), it was snowing like crazy. Arround 22:30 local time I saw what seemed to be a fairly bright white lighting wich lighted up the clouds from behind. I wasn't sure if it was a lighting strike behind the clouds or a comet. It happened while I was shortly before entering under a bridge, so I thought that I maybe was mistaken and that a car wich could have drove on that bridge maybe was the cause of that light and I interpreted it wrongly.

 

[SolarSoul]

What seems strange is that the explosions I interpret as fireworks seemed like happening right round the corner, that's why I was so astonished when I read your post. I literally thought these where some fireworks blowing like some blocks away.

It is really interesting to see how we interpret everything in a way that fits our current frame of reference. There could be all kinds of things going on around us and we just interpret them in a way which makes everything seem just "normal" and convenient!

Learning to be consciously aware of all the details happening inside and around us is truly easier said than done.

 

[Possibility of Being]

There is something that I think could have been a sign sent by the Universe as it seems way too weird and too symbolic for just a coincidence.

On Wednesday, 13 Feb, part of the roof collapsed in one of Chernobyl Plant buildings. Well, that was kinda 'expected' since there was no reconstruction work done for years and there was a lot of heavy snow on the roof, but the fact that that happened two days before the big Russia fireball sure caught my attention, especially in the light of Chelyabinsk being a nuclear research and facilities area and the infamous Mayak accident.

But there is more to it.

In Chernobyl, "A 600-square-meter (6,500-square-foot) section of the roof over the turbine hall at the fourth power block collapsed Tuesday ... the affected area is about 50 meters (165 feet) away from the "sarcophagus..." [for seeing pictures go to the original article]

In Chelyabinsk, as it was quoted from Al Jazeera in this post, "Kolsenikov also said about 6,000sq ft of a roof at a zinc factory had collapsed."

Other sources mention "about 600 square meters", so the affected surfaces must be almost the same in both cases.

Even though it seems enough to think about those two events as possibly connected on some level, I'm wondering if there are more parallels like those that could shine more light (no pun intended) on the message -- IF I'm not reading too much, that is...

 

[Paragon]

PTB in clean up mode?

'That's no meteor, it's an American weapon test': Russian politician's bizarre claim after ten ton space rock crashes to earth.

A Russian politician has claimed the meteor which streaked across the sky above the city of Chelyabinsk, before crashing down into a lake was a clandestine American weapons test.

Authorities say a 10 ton space rock, travelling at a speed of 33,000mph, hit the Earth's atmosphere with a force equivalent to 30 of the atomic bombs which destroyed the city of Hiroshima.

The astonishing event on Friday morning blew out windows in more than 4,000 buildings and injured some 1,200 people, largely with cuts from the flying glass.

But in a twist that reads like a piece of Soviet-era propoganda, firebrand politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky said what really happened was an act of provocation by the U.S.

Zhirinovsky, leader of the far-right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), said: 'Those aren't meteorites falling. It's the Americans trying out a new weapon'.

He backed up his astonishing claim arguing that newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had been trying to reach Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov all day, 'to warn him that there would be such a provocation, and it might affect Russia'.

It is far from the first time that Zhirinovsky has courted controversy.

In 2006 he suggested arming all of Russia's population and ordering them to shoot migratory birds in a bid to combat bird flu.

He has also suggested removing restrictions on arms sales to Iran and the sale of the disputed Kurile Islands to Japan for $50billion.

_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279629/That-meteor-American-weapon-test-Russian-politicians-bizarre-theory-33-000mph-space-rock-crashes-earth.html

 

[sitting]

I will tell you how this recent event has affected me.

Even though I've been immersed in Laura's work for nearly 6 years now, it still was a wake up call. I had knowledge of the wave, twin sun, closing of the grand cycle, and of course the cluster of comets. But my immediate reaction was still "WOW".

Digesting it, I find my worries getting lifted. They seem to matter less than before. Wife was mad at me. Daughter was very mad at me, which made the other children mad at me. Of course I still do care, but it's a different form of caring. The worry is there, but I'm looking at it from the "outside". A very strange even if peaceful feeling. Same with my other worries. Dangerous tress around house, creaky furnace inside house, and all the other things that had been bugging me.

And I don't know if this is a good thing or not.

 

[Cosmos]

What seems strange is that the explosions I interpret as fireworks seemed like happening right round the corner, that's why I was so astonished when I read your post. I literally thought these where some fireworks blowing like some blocks away.

It is really interesting to see how we interpret everything in a way that fits our current frame of reference. There could be all kinds of things going on around us and we just interpret them in a way which makes everything seem just "normal" and convenient!

Learning to be consciously aware of all the details happening inside and around us is truly easier said than done.

I can attest to that also, because it really sounded like fireworks near by and that is also one of the reasons I first not reacted to it.
It was only when I looked outside and saw that "bluish" flash "behind the clouds" accompanying that one explosion that I realised that it was actually quite a distance away. I can say with almost certainty that this one explosion (assuming it was related to the flash "behind the clouds") was at least 1.5 kilometers away from me because the tip of that mountain is at least that liniar distance away from my viewpoint. If the source of that explosion was indeed behind the clouds, I would say that it was at least several kilometers away from me.

I was hearing those explosions right arround 20:40 local time here, wich is thought to be the time Asteroid 2012 DA 14 has passed closest to earth.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Seems like there is a sudden rise of earthquake intensity at least in some areas compared to yeaterday. Check my 2 last replies in the earthquake thread. It's quite astonishing.

Asteroid 2012 DA 14's influence? Or not?

What seems strange is that the explosions I interpret as fireworks seemed like happening right round the corner, that's why I was so astonished when I read your post. I literally thought these where some fireworks blowing like some blocks away.

It is really interesting to see how we interpret everything in a way that fits our current frame of reference. There could be all kinds of things going on around us and we just interpret them in a way which makes everything seem just "normal" and convenient!

Learning to be consciously aware of all the details happening inside and around us is truly easier said than done.

I can attest to that also, because it really sounded like fireworks near by and that is also one of the reasons I first not reacted to it.
It was only when I looked outside and saw that "bluish" flash "behind the clouds" accompanying that one explosion that I realised that it was actually quite a distance away. I can say with almost certainty that this one explosion (assuming it was related to the flash "behind the clouds") was at least 1.5 kilometers away from me because the tip of that mountain is at least that liniar distance away from my viewpoint. If the source of that explosion was indeed behind the clouds, I would say that it was at least several kilometers away from me.

I was hearing those explosions right arround 20:40 local time here, wich is thought to be the time Asteroid 2012 DA 14 has passed closest to earth.

Well at least you know you ain't crazy dear Pashalis! ;)

Seriously, that quite nice to have SolarSoul coming and confirming it as well. Welcome aboard friend! You are right on "time".

PTB in clean up mode?

Absolutely. Notice how rediculous it is considering all we've seen/heard so far, especially with the NASA confirming it as well. They might as well accuse eachother to disinform the population either by trying to hide a celestial event or trying to hide a military test. "A clandestine American weapon test."

 

[Palinurus]

I will tell you how this recent event has affected me.

Even though I've been immersed in Laura's work for nearly 6 years now, it still was a wake up call. I had knowledge of the wave, twin sun, closing of the grand cycle, and of course the cluster of comets. But my immediate reaction was still "WOW".

Digesting it, I find my worries getting lifted. They seem to matter less than before. Wife was mad at me. Daughter was very mad at me, which made the other children mad at me. Of course I still do care, but it's a different form of caring. The worry is there, but I'm looking at it from the "outside". A very strange even if peaceful feeling. Same with my other worries. Dangerous tress around house, creaky furnace inside house, and all the other things that had been bugging me.

And I don't know if this is a good thing or not.

I think this depends entirely on whether you are in a detached observer mode looking for objective facts or in some way alienated and separated from the here and now like in a state of denial, or something like that.

I fully agree these type of occurrences tend to trivialize our day to day worries into complete insignificance so to speak -- even if only for a short while perhaps. ;)

 

[Gwenllian]

There is something that I think could have been a sign sent by the Universe as it seems way too weird and too symbolic for just a coincidence.

On Wednesday, 13 Feb, part of the roof collapsed in one of Chernobyl Plant buildings. Well, that was kinda 'expected' since there was no reconstruction work done for years and there was a lot of heavy snow on the roof, but the fact that that happened two days before the big Russia fireball sure caught my attention, especially in the light of Chelyabinsk being a nuclear research and facilities area and the infamous Mayak accident.

But there is more to it.

In Chernobyl, "A 600-square-meter (6,500-square-foot) section of the roof over the turbine hall at the fourth power block collapsed Tuesday ... the affected area is about 50 meters (165 feet) away from the "sarcophagus..." [for seeing pictures go to the original article]

In Chelyabinsk, as it was quoted from Al Jazeera in this post, "Kolsenikov also said about 6,000sq ft of a roof at a zinc factory had collapsed."

Other sources mention "about 600 square meters", so the affected surfaces must be almost the same in both cases.

Even though it seems enough to think about those two events as possibly connected on some level, I'm wondering if there are more parallels like those that could shine more light (no pun intended) on the message -- IF I'm not reading too much, that is...

This is what struck me in Niall's article:

There are a number of significant nuclear facilities in the region, where background radiation levels are being checked and have so far been reported as unchanged - which isn't saying much considering that Chelyabinsk has been declared the most polluted place on the planet as a result of the 1957 Mayak nuclear-fuel processing plant accident.

I also took it as a sign sent by the Universe.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Just out of curiosity, if it had come in a few hours later, where might it have hit?

Earth moves in orbit 30 km/s, so it never occupies any "place" longer than 17 minutes & 13 seconds.

Wouldn't you have to consider the earth's rotation speed as well (around 465 m/s @ the Equator)?