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Live feed of asteroid near miss

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:14

Should be here with the closest approach at 7:25.

Tis a record breaking approach by an asteroid (that has been measured!) I almost (not being very awake) put hit in the title rather than near miss. Oops! It is coming within 28000 km well within the geostationary satellite belt.

So are we going to have a live mn watch? Apparently you can also see it with good binoculars as it approaches.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:16

And just to whet your appetite, it appears that there was an unrelated meteor/meteorite shower last night with spectacular results, breaking windows and shaking buildings as the meteor exploded over Siberia. There is footage here

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wannabedomesticgoddess · 15/02/2013 07:20

7.25 am gmt?

Sparklingbrook · 15/02/2013 07:23

2 minutes to go. Could it divert and get DS1 out of bed?

PseudoBadger · 15/02/2013 07:25

Are we all still here?

PseudoBadger · 15/02/2013 07:28

It's tonight isn't it?

GloriaSnow · 15/02/2013 07:30

Yes it's 7.25 pm ~ tonight!

wannabedomesticgoddess · 15/02/2013 07:30

Got distracted by footage of that meteor shower on you tube.

Did anyone see the live feed? Will it be on youtube later do you think?

wannabedomesticgoddess · 15/02/2013 07:31

Ah pm!

Good. Havent missed it!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:33

Oops, forgot to type pm! I really am struggling to wake up this morning Grin sorry!

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GloriaSnow · 15/02/2013 07:34

Reports about the meteor shower on the Guardian website here. (Check out the 2nd video with the sound! Shock)

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:36

What with Pistorius :( , the Pope, with the lightning strike on the vatican, the horse meat stuff, North Korea exploding a nuclear thingy, the new coronavirus being found to be transmissible from person to person and now the exploding meteor and tonight's earth graze, it's been quite an interesting sort of week hasn't it!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:37

Bloody hell Gloria Shock

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:44

Dd reckons its the discovery of the new Mersenne prime causing all this Confused

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GloriaSnow · 15/02/2013 07:44

With all this weeks events, I've come to the conclusion......we're doomed!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 07:47

Shuffle up Gloria, I'm coming under too. I've got supplies

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GloriaSnow · 15/02/2013 07:59
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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 08:03

Our Internet just went down Shock

I can grab dhs barrel of home brew. We will be ok!!!

Well.
I guess I ought to go off to work. See you all this evening-hopefully..........

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Wallace · 15/02/2013 08:11

Thanks :)

headlesslambrini · 15/02/2013 08:22

amazing pictures.

I'm getting a little low on loo rolls. Grin

GloriaSnow · 15/02/2013 11:48

Ahhhhhhh, forgot loo rolls! Leftovers, meatballs, wine and beer ~ nothing else needed!

More video on the BBC website.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 15:47

Shock just got home, at least 950 people injured by the meteorite.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 16:20

crater left by meteorite

This comes so low down on bbc 24 and I don't know why, it's huge! Probably the most damaging meteorite in living history. They seem to have missed entirely putting any footage of the crater on.

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wannabedomesticgoddess · 15/02/2013 16:20

Yeah, the videos on you tube are crazy. Windows smashing everywhere.

Its a pretty amazing thing to happen in terms of space etc. But all those people injured and all the damage it caused is really terrible.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 16:21

Scrap that, it's not the crater! Naughty people.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 15/02/2013 16:24

Anyway back to this evenings excitement. If you want to watch it with your own eyes. charts to help you find it.

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