- But in all seriousness: is someone at NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observation program getting yelled at for totally calling 2012 DA14, but totally blowing the Chelyabinsk meteoroid?
- Because on the one hand, you had an asteroid half the size of an (American) football field fly 17,000 miles past Earth, between our low-Earth-orbit and geosynchronous orbit satellites, and people have been talking about it for weeks.
- On the other hand, METEOROID GO BOOM OVER A FUCKING CITY IN RUSSIA, INJURING 1,000+ AND DAMAGING A SHITLOAD OF BUILDINGS, AND NO ONE SAW IT COMING!!! (Yeah, it was only 15 meters across, but still.)
- Tumblr scientists: please weigh in.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
gizmodo.comSo this meteor is supposed to pass uber close by the earth today (it will actually fly UNDER the networks of television and weather satellites) and this just happened in Russia.
File under reasons to panic now lol
