[Chaos-l] video of daylight meteorite exploding over Chelyabinsk

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> I expect if it had been cloudy and relatively dark (it was sunrise), then an 
> announced blast or a blast preceded by a red glow through the clouds at a 
> distance you couldn't estimate, then the initial interpretation of what 
> happened could have been quite different. People would still be running 
> around with geiger counters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek-clues-and-count-blessings-after-meteor-blast.html?hp&_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek-clues-and-count-blessings-after-meteor-blast.html?hp&_r=0


"
Overshadowing these misfortunes, a fourth-grade teacher in 
Chelyabinsk, Yulia Karbysheva, was being hailed as a hero 
for saving 44 children from glass cuts by ordering them to 
hide under their desks when she saw the flash. Having no 
idea what it was, she executed a duck-and-cover drill from 
the cold war era.

Ms. Karbysheva, who remained standing, was seriously 
lacerated when glass severed a tendon in one of her arms, 
Interfax reported; not one of her students suffered a cut. 
"

;-\

Joe

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