Originally Posted By MarkNH:



Originally Posted By Seanem44:

Drudge. Main headline. Drudge. Main headline. http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/

"According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. A missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers, local newspaper Znak reports quoting a source in the military."



There are tons of videos of the meteorite including ones of it breaking up naturally. I see no salvo of anti-aircraft missiles.

Also the Russian Space Agency said it was moving at a speed of 30km/sec, which equals 67,108mph (which is a speed of Mach 87 (seriously) at 1 atm and 20 degrees C), that is 4 times the speed of a typical ICBM reentry...... do you really think AA missiles could destroy it? "According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. A missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers, local newspaper Znak reports quoting a source in the military."



Thank you. That is why I raised the BS alert. There is no time to react to that unless they knew about it in advance. And then we would have known about it. It may have been one, but I doubt it was intercepted. Might have been a fragment from the one passing over today.



Again, I don't wear tinfoil, but I am an amateur astronomer who understands how hard these things can be to track, let alone intercept. Thank you. That is why I raised the BS alert. There is no time to react to that unless they knew about it in advance. And then we would have known about it. It may have been one, but I doubt it was intercepted. Might have been a fragment from the one passing over today.Again, I don't wear tinfoil, but I am an amateur astronomer who understands how hard these things can be to track, let alone intercept.