{"id":89492,"date":"2019-08-09T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89492"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:53:25","slug":"weekend-open-thread-266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89492","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just want all of you to know that in October this year, an asteroid about 330+\/- feet in diameter is (MAYBE) going to possibly, but also possibly not<\/em><\/strong>, hit Earth.<\/p>\n

It is NASA 2007 FT3, with an 8-year orbital period. You may recall that in the winter of 2012-2013, a (not 300-foot)\u00a0 – correction, per Hondo – 60 ft +\/- small asteroid that NASA had not detected approached Earth at a shallow angle and punched its way through the skies of Chelyabinsk, in Russia, during the morning’s commute.<\/p>\n

An enormous number of Russian people love dash cams so the Flight of This Intruder was caught on many, many of them. It was destructive, coming in at such a high speed and such a shallow angle that, while it created a massive water vapor trail as it blew off its outer layers, it also shattered windows by the hundreds, including those in a school. Over 1,000 people had to get emergency medical help because of the glass shards. Chelybinsk 2013 also set off car alarms as it went, and knocked down partially-built brick walls. Who says there’s no fun in science, anyway?<\/p>\n

When it finally ran out of water vapor, Chelyabinsk 2013 continued its path at high speed to an unknown destination, finally fragmenting, with one large fragment finally being tracked to a frozen lake.<\/p>\n

This is a collection of videos of the Chelyabinsk meteor from the 2013 Feb event in Russia.<\/p>\n