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  • oldschoolsoviet 15 Feb 2013 14:54:10 4,928 posts
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    @magicpanda

    No idea. Just saw it linked in the comments but had doubts. Guess that's sandy dunes rather than snowy hills in the backdrop.

    You can read this ? You've helped ruin the place. :(

  • magicpanda 15 Feb 2013 14:59:23 12,295 posts
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    @oldschoolsoviet Cool vid though. It's been doing that for 40 years.
  • ecureuil 15 Feb 2013 15:29:56 74,324 posts
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    Chopsen wrote:
    The sky apparently clear tonight around here, so I'm currently planning on carting my scope out to the middle of a field and see if I can catch DA14! Woo.

    Probably won't see anything, of course. But even the prospect of not having clouds is quite exciting tbh.

    If experienced the sonic boom those Russians had, I would shit my pants.
    Would it be hard to track with a telescope? It'll be moving pretty fast, I'm thinking I might be better off using binoculars.
  • Chopsen 15 Feb 2013 15:32:14 13,795 posts
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    Yeah, I really wished I had a low power 2" eyepiece, or some kind of ultra-wide thing. The best I've got is a 32mm plossl. My plan is to aim my dob at Ursa Major when it's due to cross it at 2130 or so and hope!

    I'll take my bins as well, but I find using bins difficult because I wear glasses. Also, the predicted magnitude is 8 to 11 for the UK, so it's going to be bit of a push for bins imho, though that does technically put it at what you should be able to see with bins.

    Edited by Chopsen at 15:34:24 15-02-2013

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  • ecureuil 15 Feb 2013 15:32:21 74,324 posts
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    DaM wrote:
    Why does every car in Russia seem to have a video camera on the dashboard? Just about every crazy car crash clip is Russian.

    If I saw that coming down I would completely shit myself. Having said that I saw a big fireball shooting over our flat once (we lived in the roof, Velux windows), and just jumped out of my seat whooping, the gf thought I was having some sort of fit....
    This is why.
  • RightBean 15 Feb 2013 19:02:03 160 posts
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    It stole DA14's thunder, hell of a move.
  • Dirtbox 15 Feb 2013 19:10:53 73,993 posts
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    I doubt it'll be the last somehow. DA14 is probably travelling with an entourage of small asteroids but while that sounds scary, our atmosphere is probably more than up to the task. I hadn't thought about the sonic booms before, pretty crazy.

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  • Deckard1 15 Feb 2013 19:31:41 19,183 posts
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    What kind of damage would something that size do if it hit? Say it hit Scotland.
  • Chopsen 15 Feb 2013 19:32:27 13,795 posts
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    Not enough.

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  • Deckard1 15 Feb 2013 19:33:26 19,183 posts
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    Haha, I was waiting for "about 40 quids worth"
  • Dirtbox 15 Feb 2013 19:35:22 73,993 posts
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    No one would notice if it did land in Scotland. It'll die of liver failure in 30 years after a short life of heavy drinking and knife crime.

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  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:35:55 15,810 posts
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    It'll cause millions of pounds worth of improvements.

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  • Rusty_M 15 Feb 2013 19:39:14 3,706 posts
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    Donald Trump would try to turn it into a golf course.

    The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine.

  • Deckard1 15 Feb 2013 19:39:17 19,183 posts
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    Seriously though how much damage. Big enough to wipe out a city?
  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:40:12 15,810 posts
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    Deckard1 wrote:
    Seriously though how much damage. Big enough to wipe out a city?
    http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

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  • Chopsen 15 Feb 2013 19:41:16 13,795 posts
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    Are you talking about DA14, or the thing that hit Russia? The Russian thing managed to take out a chunk of a factory. If DA14 hit, yeah it'd take a city out at a guess.

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  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:42:35 15,810 posts
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    /calculates the moon hitting the planet

    "100 percent of the Earth is melted"

    /stares suspiciously at moon

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  • Aargh. 15 Feb 2013 19:49:01 11,347 posts
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    meme wrote:
    Deckard1 wrote:
    Seriously though how much damage. Big enough to wipe out a city?
    http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
    My 10000 Km wide asteroid made of iron may have melted Earth but at least the day cycle is only 4.17 minutes different.

    I think that everyone should be ok with that.
  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:49:40 15,810 posts
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    4.17 minutes different which way? I don't want to have to get up any earlier.

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  • ecureuil 15 Feb 2013 19:50:23 74,324 posts
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    Deckard1 wrote:
    Seriously though how much damage. Big enough to wipe out a city?
    Yeah it'd wipe out a city if it hit. The damage would be localised, it's "only" 50m across, the ones that have fucked this planet up properly a measured in terms of miles not meters. Chicxulub asteroid was 6 miles in diameter, for example. DA14 would likely break up as it entered the atmosphere, it would cause millions of deaths if it hit a city but the damage would mostly remain local to that area.
  • Aargh. 15 Feb 2013 19:51:01 11,347 posts
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    Oh, I changed it's speed and now the day cycle is 26600000 hours out.

    A lot of people are going to be very late for work that day.
  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:51:23 15,810 posts
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    So what you're saying is that it's going to hit Birmingham.

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  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:53:48 15,810 posts
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    You know what I find amusing about this Russian meteor business? A week or so ago, I took an intro class to Natural Disasters, and the lecturer said about how injuries from meteor impacts are non-existent and always apocryphal in nature, and that wouldn't change anytime soon.

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  • Trowel 15 Feb 2013 19:56:58 15,132 posts
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    I thought it was human deaths from meteors.

    Anyway, anyone seen the big fella yet?
  • meme 15 Feb 2013 19:59:39 15,810 posts
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    There have been zero recorded human deaths and something like one actual recorded injury, which was just a light bruising. Or so the textbook claimed.

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  • Dirtbox 15 Feb 2013 20:19:11 73,993 posts
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    The injuries weren't a direct result, broken glass was. In a way he's right, but you can argue the opposite now.

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  • meme 15 Feb 2013 20:20:57 15,810 posts
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    I dropped the class anyway, for it was shit and took up too much of my evenings. Stupid evening classes.

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  • Deckard1 15 Feb 2013 21:01:42 19,183 posts
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    So being injured by a meteor is actually only being hit directly with the rock?
  • senso-ji 15 Feb 2013 22:51:53 4,686 posts
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    If people are still wondering what would have happened if it hit us:

    A much larger meteor hit Earth in 1908

    If it hit a large city, then it would have flattened it, but Earth as a whole wouldn't have been in danger.

    Edited by senso-ji at 22:52:12 15-02-2013
  • Chopsen 15 Feb 2013 23:00:45 13,795 posts
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    My sky was clouded over in the end. Ho-hum. British weather, don't you love it.

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