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Russian meteor path plotted in Google Maps
- mmastrac 14y agoI'm always blown away how quickly people worldwide can be analyzing an event thousands of kilometers away and producing useful analysis, no matter where they live relative to the event.
- pierlux 14y agoTitle should be "on a map" really.
- yk 14y agoInteresting. From the picture, and the path length of 320 km we can estimate that the meteoroid impacted at a very shallow angle. Assuming that clouds only form below 50 km, then we get an upper limit on this angle of ~10 degrees. asin(50./320.) I wonder if some of the videos is complete enough as to calculate the speed.
- SiVal 14y agoUnless I'm misunderstanding your calculation, it seems that you are thinking the meteor trail was cloud (water droplets). It was probably smoke (dust and gas) being sheared off the meteor by ultra-high-speeds collisions with atmospheric gas molecules.
- yk 14y agoYes, I think dust from the meteror would look a lot darker. ( Actually I belive that dust provides the condensation seeds for the clouds.)
- martinced 14y agoDoes anyone have a precise path of 2014-DA plotted on a map to see on which "line" it would hit the earth should it hit it? I know it's not suppose to hit the earth but I'd like to know from which "side" the earth would be facing it at the moment it's going to be the closest.
- sp332 14y agoIt will be over Indonesia. http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/02/14/hamilton-asteriod-earth.html http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/02/14/hamilton-as...