Asteroid to impact Earth in 11 months?! Feb 15, 2013

[Danester]

At least a very close encounter. At worst a good chance of impacting the earth like the one that hit Sibera in 1908.

Sell your coins now , and get ready !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSXQDsjLvzA

[Danester]

If you are interested in this "kinda stuff", this is a good web site to check daily.

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/

[Danester]

Update -- 4-Days and counting.

"Designated 2012 DA14, the space rock is approximately 150 feet (45 meters) across, and astronomers are certain it will zip harmlessly past our planet on February 15—but not before making history. It will pass within the orbits of many communications satellites, making it the closest flyby on record."

For more information and a short video check out the link below.

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/2012-da14-asteroid-to-make-closest-flyby-in-history/

[ken]

I've been watching this also.

[eagames]

Coincidence? Or maybe a piece of that rock had broken off and took a slightly different approach and became a meteor?



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57569551/pieces-from-at-least-one-meteorite-fall-in-russia-officials-say/

[eagames]

Now they say it was not related to the asteroid but it injured 1100 people!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/15/meteorite-explodes-over-russian-urals-live-updates

[Danester]

My thoughts are it could be a coincidence that a smaller meteor (50ft dia.) just happened to hit a few hours before the larger asteroid (150 dia.) was to make a close fly-by of the earth. But, I am more inclined to think they are related.

I read that, because they came in from different directions - they could not be travelling together. However, if the smaller meteor was also orbiting around the larger asteroid as they travelled together, that would explain the different directions.

This meteor that hit Eastern Russia came screaming in at a little less than 10 times the threshold for hyper-sonic speed (3,750 mph, Mach-5) - some 33,000 mph. I 'd like to see some images of the area it exploded over. I've also read it exploded with the power of at least 20 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. There is still a lot of information to be confirmed about all this.

http://youtu.be/R4NsPyyVlwU

[eagames]

Yes it will be interesting to see what they find in that lake.
I'm wondering if it's metal or rock or if there's any big piece of it.

I think the Arizona meteor crater was from a much bigger meteor but there was no giant intact pieces because it splattered and a lot vaporized.


Update:
Looks like it was rock not metal:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/meteorite-rush-begins-as-russian-scientists-find-fragments-20130219-2eo51.html

[Danester]

PBS has a new documentary explaining all the details of this meteor strike - very interesting.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2358778286/