Massive meteor or small asteroid crashes into Russia; another asteroid passes by later today.

[mckitterick]

First up, breaking news:

Early this morning, local time in the Ural region of Western Russia (just after midnight in these parts), near the cities of Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, a bus-sized meteor estimated to weigh about 10 tons streaked across the sky as bright as a welding-arc, entering the atmosphere at 33,000 mph and then fragmenting in a

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[silverfae]

Here's an interesting article as well, if you, like me, have wondered, "Why do all these Russians have dash cams?"

[silverfae]

Also.. here's a great one with the sonic boom:

[tully01]

I was thinking that too. Why all the dash cams?

[silverfae]

From the article, I'm beginning to wonder if we won't see this more and more in America, as well.
With our litigious society, we might all end up wearing headcams!

[mckitterick]

I was wondering the same thing - huh! Not a huge surprise, eh?

[silverfae]

It makes me wonder if we might go the same way eventually.
But really, I have seen so many beautiful things just hanging out in our hot tub at night, like the huge fireball last night before last.

[mckitterick]

I often think about how wonderful it must be to live somewhere without significant light pollution. That's something I loved about northeast Montana: One streetlight in all of the town where I lived for a year. Pity the locals were such horrid people.

[silverfae]

Oh man, the first time I saw the sky in the middle of nowhere Nevada, I was truly amazed, I'd never seen anything like it in my life.

[garyomaha]

Yes, that was the first question that popped into my mind. I just figured it's another social media phenomenon that I'm late getting into. ;)