NASA | NPP Sees Aftermath of the Chelyabinsk Meteor

A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument on NPP to deliver unprecedented data and help them track and study the meteor plume for months. This video shows how accurately the model prediction coincided with the satellite observations.

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[letzpadonna]

Thank you NASA!
Wonderful use of data display. It's when all the science research and development used to learn about things, becomes useable and easy to understand by the rest of us who are not rocket scientists.
I'd love to see this tech used to show the plumes of stuff leaking out of Fucashima. I'm a street performer by profession, and it would be nice to know when it's not a good time to be out in a light rain. (I do play on rainy days).

[sirMAXX]

OMG! That's so awesome! That was just a small chunk too and still picked all that up.

[Rocket-rseb]

More over thanks to the artist that presented this data for us to easily understand the information :)

[Morristown]

Could we use this data to predict what Apophis 2029, 2036, or 2068 would be like? Or a Benu 2135?

[volcommadness]

Imagine if that thing was twice it’s size. Devastation! Space don’t play games it ends lives

[larrybloxham]

NASA models are maturing. These results are very interesting.

[Peppathefish]

Why Nasa not able to track these.? The idea that this can happen again without any warning gives me chills..

[yankoaleksandrov]

Amazing, I wonder if we can make simulation of almost everything some day ?

[MrCody]

The fact that we did not see this comming scares me lol.

[fratercontenduntocculta]

I had no idea NASA studied this so seriously!

[daisiesofdoom]

Half a megaton.

Humankind is sitting ducks

[brianbrewster]

All this technology studying the plume from a bolide and yet no one predicted this event from occurring to begin with. How sad.

[CHRISWE]

This could not of been done without the greatest name 3:40

[brtruitt]

Does anyone know how this might impact earth's weather patterns?

[EpicViralFail]

It must be weird to see all that red stuff in the sky

[brtruitt]

so, how will this affect earth's weather patterns?

[amirqureshi]

Satellite made several observations but we don't have real images from Satellite. Are they fooling us ?

[masonhenry]

I wonder if it affected the temperatures up there

[jeffmoore]

Will the ISON Comet tail effect earth?

[Joddit]

"Are they really able to presume when and where a "even bigger event" will occur?"

No, but they never claimed that. One thing is for certain thoug: meteor strikes will happen... Small ones, but also large ones.