Starship Asterisk*

http://ura.ru/print/news/1052153519.html Found little nuggets of 30-40 meters from the open water I think this is a particularly bad translation. I think that the original says that the pieces were found 30 -40 metres distance from the open water. Could someone who speaks Russian better than I do cl...

There are black little stones found on the ice of Chebarkul lake. There's little chance that they're not part of the meteorite. There are messages, not officially confirmed, that the meteorite was assigned the name of the lake. So, if the officials will confirm this, it's Chebarkul meteorite. Local...

Science World Reports 2/17/2013 After < the meteor over Chelyabinsk > NASA has approved $5 million of funding for ATLAS project http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/ATLAS/ Press release, University of Hawaii, February 15th, 2013 In the realm of potential planetary disasters, asteroids are ...

As this is now being discussed on two threads, I am cross-posting this link to a post in today's Apod discussion. http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30743#p193244 where there is a query about the possibility that the meteoroid did not actually impact the surface. I'd certainly be inter...

It is bright, but it is not an explosion. You can see it continues on after its brightest part. It is like a light filament, as it dims, the meteor continues. Did not explode. :---[===] * This is a comment from the blog post ("the meteor's trajectory") linked from today's Apod http://blog...

He is beautiful!
Margarita

Thanks, MargaritaMc! I spent the day with my son (19-year-old college senior) doing mundane things (eye doctor appointments, a little shopping, eating, driving him from and back to school). We were in our local Target and found mugs on a clearance shelf. For $1, we each got a mug with our first ini...

And my very good wishes, too, Owlice!

Margarita

Sassy had he stitches taken out and is doing real well! She is more playful now that she has been for a while. :D I am so glad that Sassy is doing well, Orin. Some time back you posted a photo of her in a wicker chair - we havea similar chair in our garden and every cat we've had loves it! Does Sas...

Ah ha! A bit subtle - but the best puns always are.

WoW, Cooooooool, someone was actually able to capture it... neat. :---[===] * I am going to indulge in some quite unjustified pride ( as I have no connection to the Observatory on Mount Teide ) and point out that this superb video comes from my home island of Tenerife . Daniel López apologises on t...

Tomorrow's picture: braking news on Russian meteor

From the text of today's Apod
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

I think that the correct spelling should be 'breaking' - unless a pun of some sort is intended?

M

Sky and Telescope NEWS BLOG by Robert Naeye For those who follow the asteroid impact threat, the 300- to 500-kiloton meteor blast over Russia on February 15th was just a matter of time. It shone brighter than the Sun, and when the shock wave swept across cities and towns more than a minute later, i...

Owlice kindly wrote
Margarita, from Wikipedia:

...and gave lots of information that I should have looked up for myself! Thank you, very much, Owlice.

Margarita

A meteoroid broke up in the atmosphere over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday morning http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9872020/Meteor-falling-over-Russia-caught-on-camera.html The Telegraph calls the Russian object a meteoroid which is a new term for me. Feeling a bit...

My Russian is now minimal, but the label of the second of the two YouTube videos posted above by tawilson translates as
"Chelyabinsk 15.02.13 From the Ural (came?) Meteorite 2012DA14"
So one person at least thought it was DA14.

M

Thank you. It certainly DID move a lot of air...
Margarita

RJN wrote:This video highlights the sonic booms. - RJN

Good Lord! It is like a bombardment! What could cause that amount of such prolonged and repeated noise? Chris wrote something earlier on about this - but I could really appreciate detailed explanation, please, if possible.

Margarita

Thank you, Rob. I was almost 100% sure that Pluto didn't go inside the orbit of Uranus - but this image made me doubt my understanding! Of course - the tilt of Pluto's orbit explains it.

Margarita

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 09#p193009

regarding yesterday's fireball.
M

http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/14/519262 ... urals.html

Some info in English. Thanks for the videos, sheershoff.
M

Ann asked This festoon, apart from having a nice color, looks eerily like a steam ship, sailing a "sea of brown". (Now who sang "a sea of green" - was it the Beatles?) Yes! In the song 'Yellow Submarine'. http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=nkhTA6MQ3BQ I can fancifully imagine having a...

Does Pluto's orbit really go inside, not only the orbit of Neptune, but also of Uranus? That is what this image seems to show. I knew about Neptune, of course, but skimming the orbit of Uranus is new to me.

Margarita

Do you know, I'd not remembered the red slippers...
I was more thinking of,

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/618483main_earth1600_946-710.jpg Wow, a humbling experience that reminds us all, despite the numbers of newly found exo-planets, we are very small and very, very far from anything remotely like our awesome and fragile home . Indeed, and that is something we should...