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Amazing footage of meteorites hitting Russia

Peanut View Member Profile	15/02/2013, 10:25 PM Post #1
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Reports of up to 500 people being injured by the meteorite shower that struck Russia today. The footage is quite incredible. Unfortunately my crappy phone is not letting me add a link to the footage.

JaneDoe2010 View Member Profile	15/02/2013, 10:38 PM Post #2
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Pretty amazing really, at first I thought it was a hoax! http://www.news.com.au/world/meteor-shower...v-1226578976770

Peanut View Member Profile	15/02/2013, 10:44 PM Post #3
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Thanks for adding a link! Already the conspiracy theories are out, it's a UFO/rogue satellite/spy plane from the USA/North Korean nuclear rocket...!

=Magpie= View Member Profile	15/02/2013, 10:47 PM Post #4
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OMG, I would die of fright!!

ALEJA View Member Profile	15/02/2013, 10:56 PM Post #5
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This freaks me out a little only because this is meant to pass over tomorrow morning.

Luxe View Member Profile	15/02/2013, 11:02 PM Post #6
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It's breath taking. So bright and the bang from the sonic boom is immense. I'd be freaking out thinking it was a missile strike.

red_squirrel View Member Profile	16/02/2013, 08:02 AM Post #7
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I just watched the footage - that is pretty amazing.

miriams View Member Profile	16/02/2013, 08:16 AM Post #8
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I Set up my telescope last night and got up early at 5am to see if I could catch the other predicted one ... Alas it was cloudy I wonder if the passing of this larger one sent other unknown ones out of their orbit. It was pretty dramatic.

Bart. View Member Profile	16/02/2013, 08:29 AM Post #9
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Wow! I feel sorry for the Russians injured but that was seriously cool.

Oriental lily View Member Profile	16/02/2013, 09:24 AM Post #10
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For years when I was a child I feared this sort of thing happening while sleeping. I would lie in bed at night trying to listen for certain doom. It alternated between fearing a meteorite or a aeroplane crashing in to the house. Seeing that footage and that it has harmed all those poor people brought back old those old fears. Scary sh*t.

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