Planet of sound: Meteor blast resonated around Earth
Meteor explodes over Russia (CNN) -- The meteor that exploded over the steppes of southwestern Russia sent a low-frequency rumble bouncing through the Earth, giving scientists new clues about the biggest cosmic intruder in a century. The big boom over Chelyabinsk on February 15 also produced a wave of sound thousands of times lower than a piano's middle C -- far below the range of human hearing, according to the international agency that watches for nuclear bomb tests. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization said that sound wave showed up on sensors from Greenland to Antarctica, making it the largest ever detected by its network. 1
Scientists then used that wave to calculate the size of the small asteroid that plunged to Earth, said Margaret CampbellBrown, an astronomer at Canada's University of Western Ontario. The duration of the wave -- about 32 seconds -- let scientists estimate the energy of the blast at between 450 and 500 kilotons, the size of about 30 early nuclear bombs Over 100 tons of material falls daily From there, Brown said, they could calculate the size of the fireball; and using an estimate of the meteor's speed from the numerous dashboard and mobile-phone cameras that captured the scene, it was "first-year physics" to figure out the approximate size and weight, she said. The latest estimate is that the Chelyabinsk meteor was about 56 feet (17 meters) across, weighed more than 7,000 tons and was moving about 18 kilometers per second (40,000 mph) when it blew apart, she said. Opinion: A meteor and asteroid: 1 in 100 million odds "In terms of things we have observed, this is the largest since Tunguska," Brown said, referring to the suspected meteor that flattened a Siberian forest in 1908. The nuclear test monitors pick up "infrasound", or low frequency, waves from about 20 meteors a year -- "if conditions are right, perhaps as small as a pea," she said. Russian authorities say more than 1,500 people were hurt, mostly by flying glass, when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded in spectacular fashion. Amateur video footage showed a bright white streak moving rapidly across the sky 2
before exploding with an even brighter flash and a deafening bang. Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said scientists believe the object originated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was the Apollo group of asteroids, which circle the sun in oblong orbits, that occasionally cross Earth's. Cooke said scientists expect to study the Chelyabinsk event for months. But the dozens of fragments that have been found so far point to a fairly common, stony asteroid with traces of nickel and iron. "The composition is not at all unusual as far as meteorites go," he said. "It was just very big." *** MailOnline Did UFO 'hit' Russian meteorite blasting it to smithereens? Theory is based on analysis of several different pieces of footage U.F.O. watchers claim object seen close by could be a U.F.O. Reports of a surge in UFO sightings in the Urals before the strike By WILL STEWART 1 March 2013 3
The meteorite that crashed on Russia was hit by an unidentified flying object causing it to explode and shatter over the Urals, it has been claimed. The bizarre theory is based on analysis of blurry footage of the space rock as it streaked across morning sky above the city of Chelyabinsk. U.F.O enthusiasts insist a small 'object' can be seen colliding with the meteorite on its trajectory through the atmosphere, despite the fact there were no reports of Russia launching missiles to down the celestial intruder, they claim. The meteorite exploded in the atmosphere on 15 February with a force as great as 30 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, causing extensive damage in Chelyabinsk and injuring around 1,200 people, many from shattered glass. Alien enthusiasts have seized on the unexplained images as evidence that 'we were saved by a UFO' Estimated by Nasa to have been 55ft-wide and with a weight of some 10,000 tons, the meteor is thought to have exploded above the Ural mountains with a force equivalent to about 500 kilotons. Nuclear installations in the Urals remained undamaged by the fallout. 'At first, we also believed that the Chelyabinsk meteorite was just an ordinary meteorite, a cosmic body,' said Alexander Komanev, coordinator for the Russian UFO community in Yekaterinburg. But on at least three films of the space rock 'you can see how an object catches the meteorite', he said. 4
This minuscule oblong-shaped object "flies into it - and the meteorite explodes and falls'. He stressed: 'Such a number of videos, made from different angles, leads us to believe that something has blown up the meteorite...' He claimed that in the weeks before the meteorite, there was an upsurge in UFO sightings in the Urals, followed by none at all since the incident. Footage seen ahead of the incident two 'glowing bowls' seen flying in the sky at night over the village of Chabry. Separately in day time, similar objects were seen over Chelyabinsk, it is claimed. On both occasions they moved across the sky, disappeared, and then returned. (article found on www.peopleofthekeys.com) ************************************************** See incredible video footage on You-tube of destruction of meteor in Russia by a UFO passing right through it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk3h6ni-nZY
************************************************* Commentary by Peter Brave-Heart Well I can’t vouch for the footage of any film these days, but on a first viewing, the film seems real, but then I am no 5
expert about film making, and whether or not they are real or fake, however I ask myself the question, “What if the footage IS real? Then what could it mean? Are we seeing a completely new trend with the UFO’s? No longer so mysterious, and distant, and only seen by a select few, such as my family, and thousands of others around the planet? Are they now going to show up with increasing frequency & “Appear as the saviours of mankind” like some sort of Supermen or X-MEN? It would seem that already many see the UFO people as the “good guys” “super-intelligent beings”, here to protect mankind. In a survey done recently in the USA, 70% of those who believe in UFO’s, believe the occupants to be the “good guys”. Somehow I suspect something more malevolent is afoot. Satan always likes to “show-off” and wants to “appear as an angel of light. His ultimate goal, according to the bible, is to be EMPEROR of the WORLD and to make all of mankind his absolute SLAVES. According to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 in the bible, Satan will put on some “amazing demonstrations” in the Last days. “With all LYING SIGNS AND WONDERS” “With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that PERISH, because they received not the Love of the TRUTH. The TRUTH that Jesus said about Himself, “I am the way the 6
truth and the Life, and no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me� John 14.6 Jesus also said, “He that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live�. I do think that such a massive meteor exploding in Russia very recently at the end of Feb 2013, only a few hundred meters above the ground is quite a significant, and formerly very rare event. Adding the UFO to the scene makes the story, well I know sound fantastic, and even totally unbelievable to most people, but according to the bible, these sort of events are going to most definitely be on the increase from now on...
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