Russian meteorite 1,000 times bigger than originally thought!

reply to post by Jefferton


I was speaking from my own point of view and my own opinion. Nor was it a solid opinion since I had no evidence to back it up. How am I spreading ignorance?

I know that you are spreading 4chan type HATE!!! back to your hole troll

Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by Deny777

 

NASA has estimated the meteor's diameter to be 17 m. That's a radius of 8.5 m, a volume of 2572.44 m³, and a mass (based on the density you gave) of 10,933 tons.

Yep, my bad, made a rookie mistake using diameter instead of radius in that formula, that's what happens when you don't exercise your math regularly

Originally posted by NeoVain
reply to post by Helious

 

1000 times bigger than originally thought? And they say 15 meters in diameters? That would mean they originally thought it was 1.5 cm big. It seems they where originally very dumb, or something doesn´t smell right here.

Yeah - you math!

1000 times the mass is not 1000 times the diameter - volume increases with the cube of the diameter (radius x 2) - so it is about 10 times the radius.

A 1.5m diameter sphere has a volume of about 1.8 cubic meters, and I saw somewher the figure of 4.25 t/m^3 for the material, so that's about 7.5 tonnes

Make the sphere 1.7m and you get 11 tonnes - yep - just a little increase in diameter - 0.2m, about 8", adds almost 3.5 tonnes!! (unless my math has suddently gone to carp!! )

reply to post by H1ght3chHippie


Initially it was thought to contain much more iron so would have been a heavier initial estimate. The presumed high iron content was suggested as the the reason it survived the mesosphere and got as far as it did.

However the scientific estimates and some of the reporting is possibly dubious so I expect more 'revelations' about how big / fast etc. it was soon.

Sort of makes one wonder about the vids showing and saying it was shot down from behind. Never beleive a damn thing NASA say's. If this isnt proof of that statement, I don't know what is.

reply to post by openyourmind1262


Why, because NASA waited to get an accurate value instead of jumping all over preliminary estimates like everyone else?

Originally posted by openyourmind1262
Sort of makes one wonder about the vids showing and saying it was shot down from behind. Never beleive a damn thing NASA say's. If this isnt proof of that statement, I don't know what is.

Congratulations - you too are less accurate than Fox News

there was a prize, but when it was realised how many people were winning it the organisers decided to eat it themselves...yum yum....

I am grateful that there were no deaths.
I am sorry about all the people who were cut/injured by the blast.
Thank Goodness this didn't happen 30 years ago. It would have kicked off a retaliatory missile strike.

10,000 tons of meteorite, there's a lot of $$$$$ to be found in them their waters.

Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
It truly is frightening stuff that this got through undetected, what if it was bigger still?

www.liveleak.com...

Thanks for the link.
I now know that if I see something like that pass by, I have about 2 minutes to get away from windows and protect my ears!

I sort of don't want to visit the link, because I know what's on the other side of that rainbow, and it ain't a pot of gold. I guarantee you at the end of the article, it won't make sense, or the information will be skewed to make someone look insane, or it will be fluff news, because of the nature of the presentation, that it comes from fox news.

I imagine it weighed 100 tons but it hit the ground feeling like 10,000 tons. That could the idea behind the force that was stronger than an atomic bomb, it was more powerful than a megaton bomb. What am I, a rocket scientist?

Somehow, putting the numbers on papers doesn't promote the idea of a competitive intelligence after the fact. I'm going to pull a Hillary Clinton and say: what difference does it make? It's already exploded a bunch of windows and is now a permanent addition to planet Earth.

Here is the response you will typically get from NASA after an event with no warning: "space is pretty big," and it's said with superior nerd attitude which implies that watching ginormous shooting stars is a waste of their time. And they doubly don't care to tell you when something dangerous is going to happen, unless it lands by one of their precious little military installations or within the view of the POTUS. Weren't they out of their 9 to 5 shift and sleeping in the USA when that skyturd came down in Russia? US isn't exactly going to confess monitoring Russian airspace anyways.

Just remember what they didn't tell their exploding shuttle crew and see how it follows their character to not care in this event.

Originally posted by Helious


So, it went from being an estimated 10 tons to 10,000 tons? How could this be exactly?

I heard initial estimations that the meteor was 2m in size but this just can not be the case at all if it was actually 10,000 tons. Something about this doesn't make a whole lot of sense on the surface.

Wouldn't something of that mass and velocity have caused a lot more damage and loss of life? I'm no astrophysicist but 10,000 tons seems like a lot to me.

www.foxnews.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

It exploded high in the atmosphere spread out linearly over quite a distance, not exploding in a single point.

i trust no news coming from fox news.

reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul


What if the thing would have hit a city and took out two or three million. Would NASA be so quick to say "we were wrong in the size estimate, our bad" I don't think so.Keep beleiving what is feed to you by the folks at NASA. They have a never ending supply of crap.

reply to post by openyourmind1262


NASA wasn't wrong. The Russian scientists were wrong. NASA has been consistent in its size estimates. Feel free to take issue with NASA all you want, but you can't use this incident to do it. NASA are the only ones who haven't significantly changed their initial estimates.