Feb 152013
An office interior:
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A long dashcam video that shows the whole sequence from the meteor passing by (4:36) to the arrival of the boom (7:00). Note cars jump, windows blow out, snow get knocked off roofs.
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A voice of crazy from the past – Vladimir Zhirinovsky – comes forth with claims that the US is responsible for this:
6m-crater found at site of alleged fragment crash
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Some numbers are given here:
Over 900 injured after Russian meteorite fall
950 injured; meteor estimated at 10 metric tons, entered at 20 km/sec. This would provided a kinetic energy of 2000000000000 joules… just under half a kiloton. That seems pretty low given that windows were blown out 50 km away…
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