A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteorite shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. The fireballs' explosion was the equivalent of 300,000 tons of TNT, damaging 3,000 buildings with the powerful shockwaves generated from the blast. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and cellphones have stopped working.
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A bright flash was seen in the Chelyabinsk, Tyumen and Sverdlovsk regions, Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria and in northern Kazakhstan.
At least 1,000 people sought medical attention as a result of the incident, according to the Russian Interior Ministry. No serious injuries have been reported, with most of the injuries caused by broken glass and minor concussions.
Lifenews tabloid said that at least one piece of the fallen object caused damage on the ground in Chelyabinsk. According to preliminary reports, it crashed into a wall near a zinc factory, disrupting the city's Internet and mobile service.
The Emergency Ministry reported that 20,000 rescue workers are operating in the region. Three aircraft were deployed to survey the area and locate other possible impact locations.
Witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it seemed like an earthquake and thunder had struck at the same time, and that there were huge trails of smoke across the sky. Others reported seeing burning objects fall to earth.
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Clearly not an asteroid, the Chelyabinsk meteor came from the direction of the Sun, where Planet X, aka Nibiru, is wafting its vast debris ridden tail. This meteor event is not the first nor will it be the last during this passage. Fireballs have been on the increase since Planet X arrived in the inner solar system in 2003. They have screamed across several countries or provinces or states, outside of any anticipated regular meteor showers. Is this meteor related to 2012 DA14, recently discovered and traced to pass between the Earth and Moon later on the same day as the Chelyabinsk meteor? There is no relationship, as 2012 DA14 is an asteroid dislodged from its usual path by the swirling in the tail of Planet X.
The Russians have claimed that they shot down the Chelyabinsk meteor, unsure if it were a missile, an attack, and in any case trying to diminish the size and potential impact. This is true, and as meteors are slowed by the atmosphere, and as the flaming meteor makes an unmistakable target, they were able to connect. Does the Chelyabinsk meteor usher in a new era of larger and more devastating fireballs descending upon the Earth? Without a question, and all will be coming from the direction of the Sun. Just another fact the cover-up will be unable to adequately explain. Just another reason why Obama needs to proceed with haste to confess that a cover-up has existed since Reagan’s Executive Order on the matter. Or will yet more lies be generated by NASA.
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Gordon Gianninoto located a video that shows the surface to air heat seeking missiles that shot down the Russian meteor. There has been dispute, and the Russians deny, but here's the proof! The inverted image shows the missile trails most clearly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tCFARJVsDEI
See also: Fireballs on the Rise
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Comment by jorge namour on February 18, 2013 at 2:04pm February 18, 2013
http://www.europe1.fr/International/Des-fragments-de-la-meteorite-r...
Traduced by google
Fragments of the meteorite found
This is the opinion of Russian scientists who say they have collected nearly fifty pieces.
All the meteorite would not disintegrated. Scientists said Monday it had found fragments of the meteorite that disintegrated over the city of Chelyabinsk and whose shock wave has more than a thousand injured Friday in the Urals.
Mainly composed of iron
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia had announced Sunday stop research while divers had searched the day all day in vain funds a local lake, Lake Tchebarkoul, location of alleged fall one of the fragments of the meteorite.
But scientists from the University of the Urals, sent there, claimed to have found a fifty fragments near the lake. "The members of the expedition to find the meteorite sent to Yekaterinburg debris they found," says the University in a statement.
"According to the leader of the expedition, a member of the Academy of Sciences Viktor Grokhovski, this meteorite is the class of chondrites", a term denoting a type of meteorite stony, the University continues, adding that the fragments found were composed 10% of iron.
"The main fragment in the lake"
The meteorite should be called "meteorite Tcherbakoul," the statement said. Since we have found debris (...), this means that the main fragment is in the lake, "said Viktor Grokhovski, quoted by Interfax. A meteorite found by Russian scientists to ten tons, s' disintegrated Friday morning over the city of Chelyabinsk, an industrial city of over a million inhabitants.
Comment by khan on February 18, 2013 at 7:52am Fireball Logs
Each year since 2005, the American Meteor Society receives hundreds of fireball reports. Browse the articles below and take a look at all the fireball reports.
463 Events found in 2005
517 Events found in 2006
588 Events found in 2007
726 Events found in 2008
694 Events found in 2009
951 Events found in 2010
1628 Events found in 2011
2220 Events found in 2012
377 Events found in 2013
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/fireball/browse_events/?year=2013...
MIAMI -
A fireball was seen in the South Florida sky on Sunday evening, according to Local 10 viewers....
http://www.local10.com/news/Did-you-see-a-fireball-in-the-sky/-/171...
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21009885501915/bright-light...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279992/The-mystery-Somerse...
Fireball seen in Britain...
By Sam Webb
PUBLISHED: 12:17 GMT, 17 February 2013 | UPDATED: 15:33 GMT, 17 February 2013
Has the South West of Britain had a brush with a meteor similar to the one that rocked central Russia on Friday?
Probably not, but mystery still surrounds this mysterious object captured hurtling across the British sky by a wildlife photographer.
Stunned Annie Henderson, 65, was taking pictures of starlings on the Somerset Levels with a friend when she saw the bright light moving at high speed.

Fire in the sky: Wildlife photographer Annie Henderson was amazed to see this fiery object above a nature reserve

Streak: A close up of the mysterious blazing object
Comment by Ancient Ally on February 17, 2013 at 5:41pm Hi Rustam - I started looking at other videos out there to see if I could see something similar. I do see an object shooting forward out of the front of the meteor with about the same timing as the one you just posted. However, I am fumbling around trying to get a screen shot of it and decided it would be better for someone more technically savvy to do this. You can see it from 1:23 to 1:25 on this video
Link to possible missile capture
Comment by Rustam on February 17, 2013 at 3:01pm Another video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaQIPBqoQ-Q
Meteorit Chelyabinsk UFO saved us?
why the missile did not explode?
Comment by Stanislav on February 17, 2013 at 11:05am Machine Translate -
Before falling to the Urals meteorite exploded 9 times!
Collapsed in the Chelyabinsk region heavenly body began to explode at an altitude of 55,000 meters.
According to experts, the meteorite explosion occurred even in the upper part of the atmosphere - the ionosphere. Space object broke into several pieces, which are now leading the search for the security services and the MOE.
- Before falling to the ground car, according to preliminary data, exploded nine times with small intervals of time. This phenomenon is at the meteor shower. Loud bangs and flashes of light in the sky over the Urals residents watched the two megacities. Cotton, likely occurred because of friction when entering the meteorite in the atmosphere, - said a source from the Ministry of Emergency Situations. - Meteor rain accompanied this natural phenomenon.
According to preliminary data of a large meteorite could fall near the village of Kusa and about the military unit Chebarkul garrison. Specialists conduct measurements of background radiation and are looking for pieces of the cosmic body.
- Brought Division of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection to monitor radioactivity. Since the explosion occurred above the ground, you have to check the background radiation over a wide area - said spokesman Jaroslaw CVO Roshchupkin. - Groups are directed to areas of several villages in the Chelyabinsk and Tyumen regions. All services are ready after receiving the first signal of an emergency.
Now the city patrol car equipped with speakerphone. And the volunteers and rescuers asked all residents to stay together. Classes in schools stopped the next day.
Most affected Chelyabinsk Theatre drama. The building is divided into about 80 window panes. For tonight administration decided to cancel all activities for children in the city.
- The chamber theater audiences are invited to the show from the area. Perhaps, in view of the current situation and problems with transport performance did not take place - told Life News Ministry of Culture of the Chelyabinsk region. - The public library is also now closed to visitors.
While the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported 524 victims of a meteorite impact, among them 67 children.
http://lifenews.ru/news/110800
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Comment by Sevan Makaracı on February 17, 2013 at 11:03am From "The Guardian"
Eyewitnesses claim to have seen similar sights to event over Russia that prompted panic and caused thousands of injuries.
People in California who claimed to have seen a meteorite on Friday night posted video of the event to YouTube.
A day after a stunning meteorite tore through the skies above Russia, causing widespread damage and hospitalising scores of people, sightings of fireballs have been reported by residents in California and on Cuban state television.
The Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, in Northern California, said a number of people had made contact, describing what appeared to be a fireball flying west on Friday night. Cuban state TV – perhaps keen to get in on the act with its former Cold War ally – reported that it too had been visited by a giant meteorite earlier in the week. It said residents in the country had been startled by bight lights and a loud noise. A local newscast, posted on the website CubaSi late Friday, featured unidentified residents of the central city of Rodas, near Cienfuegos, saying the explosion was impressive.
"On Tuesday we left home to fish around five in the afternoon, and around [eight o'clock] we saw a light in the heavens and then a big ball of fire, bigger than the sun," a local man said in the video. "My home shook completely," said a woman, who added: "I had never heard such a strange thing." Source
Comment by ann s. on February 16, 2013 at 10:39pm These words are going to come back to haunt NASA:
"'We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office said in the statement.'"
The mainstream media is pretending large fireballs such as the Russian one are not uncommon, we just don't notice because they usually occur over water.
So when more large fireballs/small "asteroids" arrive without warning from the direction of the sun that also cause previously unheard of human injuries on land, what oh what will NASA say then?!
Comment by Saanvi on February 16, 2013 at 8:51pm Fireball Lights Up Northern California Skies: Reports
It's really starting to look like the sky is falling.
According to media reports, a fireball streaked through the skies above California's Bay Area Friday evening (Feb. 15), just hours after another bright meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk and a 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid gave Earth a historically close shave.
Read more at:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/fireball-lights-northern-california-skies-...
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