Dee Finney's blog February 15, 2013 page 447 METEOR STRIKES RUSSIA

An object struck a factory wall 900 miles east of Moscow, breaking windows and setting alarms. A YouTube video shows trace of object falling from the sky

A meteorite may have caused a series of powerful explosions about 900 miles east of Moscow that injured more than 100 people on Friday, Russian emergency officials say.

Witnesses said one meteorite damaged a zinc factory in the Chelyabinsk region and disrupted the city's Internet and mobile service. The blast reportedly set off a shock wave that broke nearby windows and set off car alarms.

"It was definitely not a plane," emergency officials told Reuters. "We are gathering the bits of information and have no data on the casualties so far."

Interior Ministry spokesman Vadim Kolesnikov told the Associated Press that 102 people had requested medical assistance for treatment of injuries mostly related to glass broken by the explosions.

Officials suspected the blast may have been caused by a meteor shower. One preliminary report had the blast occurring at an altitude of about 30,000 feet. Another report from a less-than-reliable source held that the meteorite was destroyed before impact, but there's little evidence of the that in videos that captured the images and audio of the event.

Traces of the falling object were captured on a series of videos (see below) filmed in the skies over Yekaterinburg, about 125 miles southeast of Chelyabinsk. Many were captured by drivers via dashboard-mounted cameras apparently setup to record accidents in a country were insurance fraud is rampant.

The suspected strike occurred on the same day that a 150 foot-wide asteroid is expected to complete a remarkably close, but safe, flyby of the Earth. Coincidentally, the last time an asteroid this size smacked into the Earth was in 1908 in Tuguska, Siberia.

RUSSIAN METEOR INJURES HUNDREDS: Ths morning, a meteor exploded in the daytime skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia. According to CNN, hundreds of people were injured, mainly from the glass fragments of windows shattered by shock waves from the explosion. It is natural to wonder if this event has any connection to today's record-setting flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14. NASA has issued the following statement:

"The trajectory of the Russian meteorite was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object. Information is still being collected about the Russian meteorite and analysis is preliminary at this point. In videos of the meteor, it is seen to pass from left to right in front of the rising sun, which means it was traveling from north to south. Asteroid DA14's trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north."

Videos of the event may be found here and here. In many of the videos you can hear the sound of windows shattering as the meteor's loud shock wave reaches the ground. Onlookers cry out in Russian as alarms and sirens sound in the background. Stay tuned for updates!

Around 950 people have sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk alone because of the disaster, the region's governor Mikhail Yurevich told RIA Novosti. Over 110 of them have been hospitalized and two of them are in heavy condition. Among the injured there are 159 children, Emergency ministry reported.

Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk. The third site was found some 80 kilometers further to the northwest, near the town of Zlatoust. One of the fragments that struck near Chebarkul left a crater six meters in diameter.

Servicemembers from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal.

Experts working at the site of the impact told Lifenews tabloid that the fragment is most likely solid, and consists of rock and iron.

A local fisherman told police he found a large hole in the lake’s ice, which could be a result of a meteorite impact. The site was immediately sealed off by police, a search team is now waiting for divers to arrive and explore the bottom of the lake.

Samples of water taken from the lake have not revealed any excessive radioactivity or foreign material.

Russian space agency Roskosmos has confirmed the object that crashed in the Chelyabinsk region is a meteorite:

According to estimates by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the space object weighed about 10 tons before entering Earth’s atmosphere.

A bright flash was seen in the Chelyabinsk, Tyumen and Sverdlovsk regions, Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria and in northern Kazakhstan.

The Russian army has joined the rescue operation. Radiation, chemical and biological protection units have been put on high alert. Since the explosion occurred several kilometers above the Earth, a large ground area must be thoroughly checked for radiation and other threats.

According to preliminary reports, the worst damage on the ground in Chelyabinsk was at a zinc factory, the walls and roof of which were partially destroyed by an impact wave. The city's Internet and mobile service were reportedly interrupted because of the damage inflicted near the factory.

Chelyabinsk administration’s website said nearly 3,000 buildings were damaged to varying extents by the meteor shower in the city, including 34 medical facilities and 361 schools and kindergartens. The total amount of window glass shattered amounts to 100,000 square meters, the site said, citing city administration head Sergey Davydov. The ministry also said that no local power stations or civil aircraft were damaged by the meteorite shower, and that “all flights proceed according to schedule.”

Buildings were left without gas because facilities in the city had also been damaged, an Emergency Ministry spokesperson said, according to Russia 24 news channel.

The Emergency Ministry reported that 20,000 rescue workers are operating in the region. Three aircraft were deployed to survey the area and locate other possible impact locations.

The regional Emergency Ministry denied previous unconfirmed reports by local media that the meteorite was shot by the military air defenses.

The local newspaper Znak reported the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. Quoting a source in the military, it wrote a missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers.

Regnum news agency quoted a military source who claimed that the vapor condensation trail of the meteorite speaks to the fact that the meteorite was intercepted by air defenses.

Witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it seemed like an earthquake and thunder had struck at the same time, and that there were huge trails of smoke across the sky. Others reported seeing burning objects fall to earth.

A spokesperson for the Urals regional Emergency Ministry center claimed it sent out a mass SMS warning residents about a possible meteorite shower. However, eyewitnesses said they either never received it, or got the message after the explosion had occurred. The Emergency Ministry has since denied sending out the SMS warning, and said the spokesperson that spread the false information “will be fired.”

Classes for all Chelyabinsk schools have been canceled, mostly due to broken windows. Institute students have been dismissed until next Monday. Authorities also ordered all kindergartens with broken windows to return children to their families.

Meteorite shook Chelyabinsk this morning.

Shook my whole building and woke me up! #челябинск http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxXYscmgRg&feature=youtu.be …

Police in the Chelyabinsk region are reportedly on high alert, and have begun ‘Operation Fortress’ in order to protect vital infrastructure.

Office buildings in downtown Chelyabinsk have been evacuated. An emergency message published on the website of the Chelyabinsk regional authority urged residents to pick up their children from school and remain at home if possible.

Those in Chelyabinsk who had their windows smashed are scrambling to cover the openings with anything available – the temperature in the city is currently -6°C.

Chelyabinsk regional governor Mikhail Yurevich said that preserving the city’s central heating system is authorities’ primary goal.

“Do not panic, this is an ordinary situation we can manage in a couple of days,” the governor said in and address to city residents.

Background radiation levels in Chelyabinsk remain unchanged, the Emergency Ministry reported

Many locals reported that the explosion rattled their houses and smashed windows. “This explosion, my ears popped, windows were smashed… phone doesn’t work,” Evgeniya Gabun wrote on Twitter.

“My window smashed, I am all shaking! Everybody says that a plane crashed,” Twitter user Katya Grechannikova reported.

“My windows were not smashed, but I first thought that my house is being dismantled, then I thought it was a UFO, and my eventual thought was an earthquake,” Bukreeva Olga wrote on Twitter.

The Mayak nuclear complex near the town of Ozersk was not affected by the incident, according to reports. Mayak, one of the world’s biggest nuclear facilities that used to house plutonium production reactors and a reprocessing plant, is located 72 kilometers northwest of Chelyabinsk.

NASA scientists said that the incident is not connected to the approach of 2012 DA14, which measures 45 to 95 meters in diameter and will be passing by Earth tonight at around 19:25 GMT, at the record close distance of 27,000 kilometers.

russian meteor building fire

Another Tunguska event?

russian meteor 2-15-13

The incident in Chelyabinsk bears a strong resemblance to the 1908 Tunguska event – an exceptionally powerful explosion in Siberia believed to have been caused by a fragment of a comet or meteor.

According to estimates, the energy of the Tunguska blast may have been as high as 50 megatons of TNT, equal to a nuclear explosion. Some 80 million trees were leveled over a 2,000-square-kilometer area. The Tunguska blast remains one of the most mysterious events in history, prompting a wide array of hypotheses on its cause, including a black hole passing through Earth and the wreck of an alien spacecraft.

It is believed that if the Tunguska event had happened 4 hours later, due to the rotation of the Earth it would have completely destroyed the city of Vyborg and significantly damaged St. Petersburg.

When a similar, though less powerful, unexplained explosion happened in Brazil in 1930, it was named the ‘Brazilian Tunguska.’ The Tunguska event also prompted debate and research into preventing or mitigating asteroid impacts.

2-15-13 - ASTEROID DA 14 FLYING PAST EARTH TODAY:

On February 15, 2013 there were 1381 potentially hazardous asteroids.

Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid	Date(UT)	Miss Distance	Size
2013 BS45	Feb 12	4.9 LD	29 m
3752 Camillo	Feb 12	57.5 LD	3.4 km
2013 BV15	Feb 13	3.7 LD	60 m
1999 YK5	Feb 15	49.1 LD	2.1 km
2012 DA14	Feb 15	0.09 LD	65 m
2013 CE82	Feb 17	4.6 LD	44 m
2013 CZ87	Feb 19	7 LD	28 m
2009 AV	Feb 25	59.7 LD	1.0 km
2007 EO88	Mar 18	4.4 LD	23 m
1993 UC	Mar 20	49 LD	3.8 km
1997 AP10	Mar 28	45.9 LD	1.8 km
2010 GM23	Apr 13	3.9 LD	50 m
2005 NZ6	Apr 29	24.9 LD	1.3 km
2001 DQ8	Apr 30	74.3 LD	1.1 km

Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

Large Meteorite Explosion Over Cuba

Experts saying this is a hoax.

More news says this happened 6 years ago.

2-16-13 -

Cuba: Residents Report Large Meteorite Explosion Over Central Cuba, Houses Shaken

There hasn’t been any mention of this yet in Western MSM. All the attention seems to be focused on today’s massive explosion over Russia …

La Repubblica (Translation) – “Explosion in the sky in Cuba Meanwhile – An explosion has also been reported in the sky above Cuba. In the central region of the island an object has been seen that fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, which shook shook houses in the region, according to reports on local television. In a report released this morning by Rodas, a town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky.

Marcos Rodriguez, a resident in the region defined by the issuer as an expert, reported that ‘everything seems to indicate that it was a fireball, which is a fragment of stone and metal that enters the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed.’ Experts are now examining the area for possible remains in Rodas of minerals falling from the sky, the TV station added.”

Celestial Body Explodes In Cuba (Translation) – “Residents of a locality ‘in the central region of Cuba said they had seen an object that fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, which shook the houses of the place: it is learned from testimonies collected by local television. In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky.” Source – RaiNews24.

Source:
http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/cuba-residents-report-large-meteorite-explosion-over-central-cuba-houses-shaken/

Meteor Blasts Russia

Meteor approaching impact at Chelyabinsk, Russia

A meteor blasted Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15, 2013, following a magnetic storm that generated electrical ground currents and a 6.6 magnitude quake on February 14, 2013.

Earth’s magnetic field acts as a shield against spaceweather, which includes cosmic storms as well as asteroids and meteors. The planet is more susceptible to penetration by meteor and cosmic storms when the magnetic field is storming or weak.

The meteor struck northeast of Kyiv that was rocked with unexplained eery sounds in 2012 and the 3-4-5 triangle projected with the Sarvestan, Iran crop circle formed in June 2012. Sites are shown on the below map. A major quake spree followed on the heels of the crop circles, again pointing to electric-magnetic flux. Another crop circle next to the Baltic Sea in Latvia that formed June 17, 2012 is shown on the below map.

The Chelyabinsk meteor traveled from north to south across the Sun glyph in an active TimeStar window before impacting Russia. The TimeStar window remained open until February 18.

Electric-magnetic induction in high northern latitudes: http://www.allstarroundup.com/roundup/quakes/electric-magnetic.html

Sarvestan crop circle 3-4-5 triangle projection: http://www..allstarroundup.com/cc/ccsardinia-iran.html

Active TimeStar window at time of meteor strike: http://www.allstarroundup.com/domains/19sun.html

SO video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy71kiWoGPs&feature=em-uploademail

Electric-Magnetic Inductions

The magnetic upwelling in the New Siberian Islands that is attracting magnetic north appears to influence geophysical activity. Magnetic north is presently in the range of 147 West longitude in far northern ranges of the Arctic Circle, as it hikes to the New Siberia Islands. We do not yet have precise coordinates for new magnetic north, and must guesstimate until better observations are available. This is a preliminary observation of the planetary holon as it relates to the solar and galactic holon.

Spaceweather.com reported a magnetic storm on February 14, 2013. A 6.6 magnitude quake and a meteor impact, both in high northern latitudes of Russia, followed within hours of each other. The 6.6M was close to the line drawn between new magnetic north and Honshu, Japan with a 9.0M megaquake on March 11, 2011. The larger quake followed a 5.1M quake in North Korea two days after analysts believe a nuclear test was detonated. Nuclears wreak havoc on magnetic fields.

Spaceweather.com:

Magnetic Storm: "Valentine's Day in Scandinavia began with a magnetic storm. Rob Stammes of the Polar Light Center in Lofoten, Norway, reports: "Our instruments recorded 2o swings in the local magnetic field, which induced strong electrical currents in the ground outside our lab." The needles on his chart recorder were swinging wildly...

The storm was caused by a region of south-pointing magnetism in the solar wind that wafted past Earth during the early hours of Feb. 14th. The solar wind's south-pointing magnetic field partially canceled Earth's north-pointing magnetic field, opening a crack in our planet's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in to fuel the storm."

RUSSIAN METEOR INJURES HUNDREDS: This morning [February 15], a meteor exploded in the daytime skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia. According to CNN, hundreds of people were injured, mainly from the glass fragments of windows shattered by shock waves from the explosion. It is natural to wonder if this event has any connection to today's record-setting flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14. NASA has issued the following statement:

"The trajectory of the Russian meteorite was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object. Information is still being collected about the Russian meteorite and analysis is preliminary at this point. In videos of the meteor, it is seen to pass from left to right in front of the rising sun, which means it was traveling from north to south. Asteroid DA14's trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north."

Videos of the event may be found here and here. In many of the videos you can hear the sound of windows shattering as the meteor's loud shock wave reaches the ground. Onlookers cry out in Russian as alarms and sirens sound in the background. Stay tuned for updates!

ASTEROID FLYBY: At 2:25 p.m. EST (19:25 UTC) on Friday, Feb. 15th, asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet's surface. This will put it well inside the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, closer than any asteroid of the same size has come since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s. Researchers speculate that Earth's gravity might even cause seismic activity on the 50m-wide space rock. Click to view a computer simulation of the flyby, courtesy of NASA.

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From the New York Times/world/europe 2/18/13

The shock wave from the meteor that exploded above Siberia last week somehow sheared the roof off a brick and steel factory building while leaving a nearby glass facade unscathed. In some high-rises in this city, every window blew out on the top floor; elsewhere, the windows on the ground floors suffered.

More ominously, reports came in to local news media over the weekend of stranger phenomena: behind unshattered apartment windows, glass jugs were said to explode into shards, dishes to crack, electronics to die. Balconies rattled.

One man said a bottle broke right in his hand. One woman saw the flash, then heard explosions, then found the windows of her enclosed balcony blown in; her neighbor, with identical windows, escaped without property damage.

There seemed to be randomness in whose property was damaged.

Scientists believe the space rock that tore through the atmosphere on Friday morning and blew apart here was the largest to have entered the atmosphere since 1908 and that it was UNUSUAL as well FOR THE SCALE OF ITS EFFECTS: more than 1,200 people injured and broad property damage.

Indeed, the event is providing a first indication of the type of structural and infrastructural costs meteors can exact from a highly industrialized society. NASA scientists say a meteor of this size strikes the Earth about once every hundred years.

Shattered glass caused most of the damage and injuries here in Chelyabinsk, a sprawling industrial city of about a million people. What shattered the glass, scientists say, was both the explosion as the meteor fragmented and the waves of pressure created as it decelerated. Such low-frequency waves — called infrasound — are sometimes detected by cold-war era nuclear blast sensors in remote parts of the Pacific Ocean or Alaska.

The waves can bounce off buildings and be stronger in some places than others; they can also resonate with glass, explaining why bottles and dishes might have shattered inside undamaged kitchens, as if crushed by the airy hand of the meteor itself. “A shock wave is like a ball. Throw a ball into a room and it will bounce from one wall to another.”

Russia has mobilized 24,000 emergency officials to inspect roads, railroads, hospitals, factories and military facilities. Most are undamaged, including 122 sites identified as particularly critical, including nuclear power plants, dams and chemical factories, and a space launching site called Strela.

Also Sunday, Russia’s consumer safety inspection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, released a statement saying the water in Lake Chebarkul, where a hole in the ice appeared on Friday, was not radioactive.

It was unclear why the agency released this finding only Sunday, or whether the tests were conducted to assuage popular concerns or out of any real official uncertainty over what happened on Friday. In any case, the agency said a mobile laboratory quietly dispatched to the lake tested for but did not discover cesium 137 and strontium 90, isotopes created in nuclear explosions.

Infrasound waves have not previously been studied in a cityscape. But the apparent randomness of the damage was consistent with the way such waves function.

“A shock wave can be coming from a particular direction, and if you face that direction you are more susceptible. One building might shadow another, or you may have a street that is optimally aligned to channel the wave, either in a fortunate or unfortunate way.”

An infrasound wave “is very efficient at traveling long distances,” and “windows, structures or even glass jars susceptible to resonate at this frequency could be a factor to seemingly random damage at widely disparate locations.”

A similar, though smaller, explosion of a meteor over the Pacific Ocean occurred on Oct. 8, 2009, which also sent out low-frequency waves, though too remote to affect homes or industry. They were, though, registered by a network of infrasound sensors established to monitor compliance with the international ban on nuclear tests. The spokesman for the governor of Chelyabinsk region characterized the damage there as without a discernible pattern.

“It is impossible to say more glass broke in one part of the city or another. Glass broke everywhere.”

The roof of the zinc factory that collapsed was reinforced with a lattice of steel beams and supported by concrete joists that are now broken, jutting upward with mangled re-bar protruding. Windows on a neighboring house blew in with such force that the frames went with them. Yet a few yards away on Sverdlovsky Street, the cosmos spared a seemingly vulnerable Hundai dealership, a three-story cube sheathed in glass, with glistening display models inside. Not a window broke.