Reasonably good compilation of videos related to meteor fall over Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrU90Ub4Uw

First minute of this second video: shortly afterward, the initial and subesquent shock waves arrive causing damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuEyTEDc9_w

 

You think that's bad....get ready for this afternoon


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/as...ain/index.html

 

17,000 mile near miss.

 

As long as DA14 misses earth, including atmospheric contact, the meteor in Russia will have caused more problems and injury due to secondary causes. If the reality of DA14 is much worse than NASA is saying, it would be good to be on good terms with all family/friends and to have said everything that might be important to say ... y'know?

 

1. NASA is pretty clear that it will miss earth by 17,000 miles.

2. If it were to strike earth, it would probably resemble the 1908 Tunguska event:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

 

Das vadanya!

Here's hoping that 2012 DA14 blasts the den of iniquity called Washington DC!

 

Does this mean I should wear a helmet today?

 

An asteroid half the size of a football field buzzed Earth in a historic flyby today (Feb. 15), barely missing our planet just hours after a much smaller object exploded above Russia, injuring perhaps 1,000 people. The 150-foot-wide (45 meters) near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 cruised within 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) of Earth at 2:24 p.m. EST (1924 GMT) today, coming closer than many communications satellites circling our planet.

Scientists think the Russian fireball was caused by a object that was about 50 feet wide (15 m) and weighed about 7,000 tons before it hit Earth's atmosphere. For comparison, 2012 DA14 tips the scales at 140,000 tons or so. The two space rocks are completely unrelated, NASA researchers say, making the dual events a spooky cosmic coincidence.

Astronomers estimate that asteroids the size of 2012 DA14 buzz Earth this closely every 40 years and hit our planet once every 1,200 years or so. If 2012 DA14 did hit us, it would probably cause severe destruction on a local scale. In 1908, a space rock thought to be of similar size exploded over Siberia, flattening about 825 square miles (2,137 square km) of forest.

 

The "s" is actually part of the second word:

до свидания ("da svēdanya").

 

cheers to that