Prepare yourselves

[KC Shox]

A meteor broke apart in midair today and hit parts of Russia injuring 500. This is just a fragment of the asteroid passing dangerously close to the earth today. The government, to eliminate anarchy and panic, isn't telling what could really happen. Go to Sam's and pick up water, canned goods, and medicine and prepare yourselves for the zombie apocalypse.

[ShockerGorilla]

Run for your lives! :eek:

[1979Shocker]

Here's is link from Today Show. They said 1000 injured.

http://www.today.com/video/today/50820779/#50820779

Oh, and it was estimated to weigh 10 tons.

[1979Shocker]

Here's a slide show. The third picture shows a collapsed building caused by the shockwave.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50823323/displaymode/1247?beginSlide=1

[Kung Wu]

Did anybody else see or hear about a big fireball falling out of the sky tonight? I saw it at 10:47pm tonight and it jaw dropping.

[The Mad Hatter]

Did anybody else see or hear about a big fireball falling out of the sky tonight? I saw it at 10:47pm tonight and it jaw dropping.

Was it the Neowise comet? Lots of great photos of it over the past week or so that it has been visible various places.

https://www.space.com/comet-neowise-slooh-webcast.html

[1979Shocker]

Did anybody else see or hear about a big fireball falling out of the sky tonight? I saw it at 10:47pm tonight and it jaw dropping.

Maybe it was this.

[Kung Wu]

It looked like '79's video only it was falling vertically to the ground. From my perspective in Goddard it would have fallen in north-eastern Sedgwick or Butler County, but it's hard to gauge depth. It was incredible.

[SB Shock]

It looked like '79's video only it was falling vertically to the ground. From my perspective in Goddard it would have fallen in north-eastern Sedgwick or Butler County, but it's hard to gauge depth. It was incredible.

I checked the NASA fireball network and and didn’t see anything reported.

https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov

[JVShocker]

Pretty cool looking.

[Kung Wu]

I checked the NASA fireball network and and didn’t see anything reported.

https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov

Dang, it was pretty incredible. If this is a regular occurrence due to the annual July meteor shower event (can't remember the name), I might take the time to set up a camera. I really don't know anything about space crap falling to the ground so I don't know if I saw something super rare, or fairly common. But this was no "shooting star" (which are cool) -- it was straight up a burning fireball that flashed super bright as it neared the horizon.

[Kung Wu]

Pretty cool looking.

It was like that, except much closer and brighter and you could clearly see the flames on the trail.

[Kung Wu]

I checked the NASA fireball network and and didn’t see anything reported.

https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov

Surely someone has an east by north-east facing camera around that time? It'd be worth taking a look, I promise.

[WstateU]

It was like that, except much closer and brighter and you could clearly see the flames on the trail.

I’m reminded of a scene from Joe Dirt (can’t seem to post video from my phone)...

“No, afraid not. That just a big ol' frozen chunk of poopy.”

[WstateU]