Russian Meteor 15-02-2013 (Best Shots) [HD]

Many different angles. Terrifying!
Today, February 15, 2013

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No deaths were reported, but about 1500 people were injured seriously enough to seek medical treatment.

The Chelyabinsk meteor is the only meteor confirmed to have resulted in many injuries.

The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC). It was caused by an approximately 20 m (66 ft) near-Earth asteroid with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000–69,000 km/h or 40,000–42,900 mph). It quickly became a brilliant superbolide meteor over the southern Ural region. The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away. It was observed over a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics. Some eyewitnesses also felt intense heat from the fireball.

Due to its high velocity and shallow angle of atmospheric entry, the object exploded in an air burst over Chelyabinsk Oblast, at a height of around 29.7 km (18.5 mi; 97,000 ft). The explosion generated a bright flash, producing a hot cloud of dust and gas that penetrated to 26.2 km (16.3 mi), and many surviving small fragmentary meteorites, as well as a large shock wave. The bulk of the object's energy was absorbed by the atmosphere, with a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact estimated from infrasound and seismic measurements to be equivalent to the blast yield of 400–500 kilotons of TNT (about 1.4–1.8 PJ) range – 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.

The object was undetected before its atmospheric entry, in part because its radiant (source direction) was close to the Sun. Its explosion created panic among local residents. All of the injuries were due to indirect effects rather than the meteor itself, mainly from broken glass from windows that were blown in when the shock wave arrived, minutes after the superbolide's flash. Some 7,200 buildings in six cities across the region were damaged by the explosion's shock wave, and authorities scrambled to help repair the structures in sub-freezing temperatures.

With an estimated initial mass of about 12,000–13,000 tonnes (13,000–14,000 short tons, heavier than the Eiffel Tower), and measuring about 20 m (66 ft) in diameter, it is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, which destroyed a wide, remote, forested, and very sparsely populated area of Siberia.

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[kyrieking]

The fact that barely anyone panics is just killing me. I’d automatically assume it’s the end of the world or an air strike 😭

[ramadansteve]

Imagine if this just so happened to hit during the cold war

[anygirl]

Tip: Don’t go near windows when you see a flaming ball shoot across the sky.

[durak]

Can you imagine how scared the meteorite was when he saw Chelyabinsk?

[_Bindweed_]

I was in the school when this happen. Pieces of glass hit us in the head. That was really hurt

[dragons]

Americans: "OH MY GOSH METEOR WE'RE GONNA DIE THE WORLD IS ENDING"
Russians: "Oh hey look, the sun moves faster now."

[ndk]

wtf they are so damn relaxed!! Badass Russians...

[DeadChannel]

Dude, these people are calm as shit, it’s like each and every Russian is a damned explosives expert and knows that there’s gonna be an extreme shockwave in just a second, and they’re gonna record that shit!

[CeleonA]

USA : "OMG! OMG ! OMG !!! OMG !!! JESUS!!!! OMG !!! OMMFG !!!"
Russia : again"

[felipedimas]

Just imagine what the dinosaurs saw before being extinct.

Edit: Edited because "extincted" doesnt exist, well english is not my first language anyways.

[vivianstanshall]

3:57
*thinks to self*
Doris how are you ever gonna find a man?
They dont just fall from the sky

[rgerber]

3:56 the meteor was a man.

So funny

[Youtubrhxr]

1:30 From that angle, there is absolutely no way in hell I wouldn't have thought that this was a nuke and just completely stopped the car. Props to the guy (or gal) for not losing their shit and causing a traffic accident!

What an insane amount of energy being released. At 60 feet across, you wouldn't even see a spec of the actual meteor if there was no light, but something that small is as bright as the sun for a split second. If it had been a meteor 10x that size, all of those people would have been instantly vaporized by the heat. The Force = ½mv² which is hundreds of tons x 20, 000 mph squared! Amazing!

[Guitarfollower]

1:58 When you're playing a gaming with dynamic weather and you speed up the time acceleration

[peanutbf]

0:22 this man didn’t even flinch over how loud that sound was

[snowfox]

0:22 what it sounds like when you accidentally drop the toilet seat late at night.

[dakotaoakes]

Possibly the coolest shit I have ever seen.

[joelclifton]

Experts have said that if the asteroid, which was as big as a large house and exploded with the energy of nearly a half a megaton, had gone nearly straight down instead of almost tangential, it would have focused the shock wave downwards rather than across and could have exploded closer to the surface, and easily could have leveled buildings for many miles.