Great shooting meteorites, Bodie!

[byslantedlight]

How has no one in my flist posted about this today?!

I heard something on the news this morning as I drove to work, and promptly forgot to look it up further, but it was all jumbled up with tonight's asteroid story so I thought it must just have been some comparison thing (they were talking about Tunguska, and how the asteroid tonight won't hit and so on) - and then I get home to find this! Oh my word!

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[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

I stayed up late last night reading/watching sources as I found them. Thank goodness for the appalling Russian driving situation that means that there are dashcams everywhere, eh.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Every time I turned on the radio today the number of casualties had risen, sadly.

yes, it got jumbled up in the news on Today this morning, with the near-Earth asteroid that is supposed to be visible tonight.

Exciting stuff!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Ack, is it the end of the world? So soon?

Gosh, to the empty-headed among us (ie me) it's quite jaw-dropping, and makes me wonder what people thought when this kind of event happened centuries ago...

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I've been watching the news, including the reports on Russia Today and on Al Jazeera. Some of the interviews with people affected were quite amazing and made it feel very close. It missed a nuclear plant by mere miles and one has to wonder what would have happened if the impact site had been in a city centre.

[cornishcat.livejournal.com]

It looks awesome; literally out of this world but my god, it must have be a terrible sight to witness, not knowing what was happening, bearing in mind all the world's unrest.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

I saw it (er - the news, that is, not the thing itself) first thing in the morning, and it just awed me. So awful that so many people were by windows when the shock blast hit, but what a phenomenal thing. Trying to imagine how something like that seemed in the days before telescopes and space travel and satellite imagery, and how people came up with explanations.

I know some of the blazing light is because of flare on the camera lenses, but apparently it really did blaze up to bright-as-day, in the middle of the night. Wow.