[QUOTE="http://news.yahoo.com/possible-meteor-shower-reported-eastern-russia-052833588.html"]"There have never been any cases of meteorites breaking up at such a low level over Russia before," said Yuri Burenko,[/QUOTE]


if tunguska's 5-10 miles is to be counted that suggest under 5 miles up.

Now [I]that[/I] is something that doesn't happen every day!

no, but it's not a rare occurence
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/feb/15/meteorite-fall-map[/url]
Every meteorite fall on earth mapped; or at least those we know about.

Clearly The Matrix has been raptured due to a Mersenne prime being found while George wasn't on vacation.

I'll have to admit: when I first saw the topic title, I thought Curtis Cooper had [strike]discovered[/strike] decided to reveal another Mersenne prime. :P

[QUOTE=science_man_88;329592]if tunguska's 5-10 miles is to be counted that suggest under 5 miles up.[/QUOTE]Not really. If the 1908 event was from a stony asteroid it would have broken up much lower than if it were a fluffy comet. I've read several papers on the subject; AFAIK there still isn't too much of a consensus though the latest I'd heard (still several years ago) was that it was probably stony.

Stony. Irony. Maybe even holey! :rolleyes:
[QUOTE]Robin: Holey rusted metal, Batman!
Batman: Huh?
Robin: The ground, it's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey.
Batman: Oh.[/QUOTE]

I was interested to note that the Tunguska Event Wikipedia page has already been updated with mention of today's happening.

Now the [url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/what-do-the-meteor-and-north-korea-have-in-common]conspiracy theorists are out in force[/url].

What's the name of the song in the 1st video from 45-53 seconds?

Note how popular the video event recorders are in Russia these days (compare the size and detail in the [URL="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80"]Russian wiki entry[/URL] and the English general article on EDRs). Sort of stems from the instant popularity of infamous videos (see Utube; there are zillions of them) of the police abuse or extortion for imaginary violations.
It is possible that every other car has them (even if the whole car is cheaper than the camera:smile:).
Even in Chelyabinsk!