Posted on 02/14/2013 9:46:55 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
MOSCOW — A Russian emergencies official says at least one meteorite has fallen in Chelyabinsk region.
Isn’t it? I’m googling and looking at NASA’s JPL website right now, but not finding a map. I’m thinking we could find something like the ISS fly-by maps, but I’m not seeing it. They talk about live feed from a telescope in Alabama starting at 8pm Central and going for 3 hours.
Here’s the latest press release:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-059
February 13, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.
At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 11:25 a.m. PST (2:25 p.m. EST / 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
The commentary will be available via NASA TV and streamed live online at:
and
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid’s flyby before and after closest approach, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about 9 a.m. PST (noon EST) and continuing through the afternoon at the following website:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 6 p.m. PST (8 p.m. CST / 9 p.m. EST). To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc
The NASA Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington manages and funds the search, study and monitoring of NEOs, or asteroids and comets, whose orbits periodically bring them close to the Earth. NASA’s study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system. The objects also are a repository of natural resources and could become waystations for future exploration. In collaboration with other external organizations, one of the program’s key goals is to search and hopefully mitigate potential NEO impacts on Earth. JPL conducts the NEO program’s technical and scientific activities.
For more information, including graphics and animations showing the flyby of 2012 DA14, visit:
www.nasa.gov/asteroidflyby
For more information about asteroids and near-Earth objects, visit:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch
D.C. Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle@jpl.nasa.gov
Steve Cole 202-358-0918
NASA Headquarters, Washington
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov
2013-059
In their vodka-soaked dreams...
I think this deserves to be in more than “chit chat” ???
It’s a pretty big deal....
I once wondered if I would be FReeping when the world came to an end..hope we don’t find out today....lol.
Unless they are islamisteroids, in which case all NASA employees must report for sensitivity traininig at 8 am the morning after the sighting.
Unless they are islamisteroids, in which case all NASA employees must report for sensitivity trainin at 8 am the morning after the sighting.
There is a photo on twitter of a Zinc factory with a huge chunk taken out of it.
This is certainly more interesting than chit chat if it woke the Russians up.
Heh!!! Same here.
Sounds like a war zone. Amazing videos.
Would be interesting to time the interval between the visual explosion and the sounds arriving if one of the videos includes both. Divide by six or seven I think it is to get distance in miles. Because the speed of sound is very slow compared to light, the sounds arrive WAY after. But notice how LOUD the explosions still were after the sound travelled all that distance?
Those videos are amazing. Watched the dashcam one first. Then the one with the ham radio antenna. Guy is filming the contrail, laughing with his friends... then BANG... sounded like a stick of dynamite going off. Incredible.
Reminds me of the crater outside Winslow, Arizona.
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Allow me to translate the Russian...
“HOLEEE SHEETSKI.....”
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