The Russian Ministry of Defense knew about the meteorite a few days (!) ago. “The meteorite had a mass of 10 to 30 tons and flew at a speed of approximately 30-40 thousand kilometers per second”

02/15/2013 15:24

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation received information about the approach of a meteorite that fell today in the Chelyabinsk region to the Earth several days ago, but were confident that the object would completely burn up in the atmosphere. “We had information about the approach of the body, we published a forecast on the Internet about a meteor shower,” a source in the Ministry of Defense told Izvestia. “And preliminary data on its composition and size indicated that the meteorite would burn up in the atmosphere. There was no cause for alarm."

According to experts from the Ministry of Defense, not a single army in the world currently has the means to prevent an object from falling from space. “All people can do is control objects,” explains the military man. “And the creation of means for 100% protection from the fall of cosmic bodies will not stretch the budget of any country.”

According to Nikolai Chugai, head of the department of non-stationary stars and stellar spectroscopy at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, we can already talk about the size of the fallen meteorite. “The meteorite had a mass of 10 to 30 tons and flew at a speed of approximately 30-40 thousand kilometers per second,” the expert said. The expert believes that the fall of such bodies can only be predicted during their entry into the atmosphere, that is, just a few seconds before the collision with the Earth. “It is possible to predict the entry of such meteorites into the atmosphere using wide-field telescopes, and even then with a low degree of probability,” Chugai clarified. “The viewing angle of such devices is one degree, and the latitude of the entire stellar space is 44,000 degrees.”

A bright flash and explosion in the sky today, February 15, at about 9 a.m. was observed by residents of the Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Kurgan regions, Kazakhstan and Bashkiria. The Southern Urals suffered the most as a result of the astronomical phenomenon: glass flew out in many houses and institutions in the region; at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, glass and doors in the plant management and personnel department were knocked out; at the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, a warehouse wall was destroyed by a blast wave.

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9999

So they would say that Serdyukov plundered money that was intended for the fight against the meteorite

Russian

Did they know and were silent? Nonsense!

fly agaric

Did you know? And they didn’t say? Have you hung the "Vulture"? Crows from the Ministry of Defense!

Zhora

And Mr. Rogozin said that these objects would be shot down in the future, but he did not specify in what foreseeable or unforeseeable manner.

Vitaly

Doesn’t it bother you that 40,000 kilometers is the perimeter of the Earth at the equator?

parade on kr pl

Reminds me of an old joke - there is a parade on Red Square, and after the passage of huge nuclear missiles, a group of people in modest gray suits with diplomats in their hands enter the square. The commentator announces: “And this is our most formidable and terrible destructive weapon - the guys from the State Planning Committee!”

7777

“The expert believes that the fall of such bodies can only be predicted during their entry into the atmosphere, that is, just a few seconds before the collision with the Earth.” This is the conclusion of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and “The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation received information about the approach of a meteorite that fell today on the territory of the Chelyabinsk region, a few days ago, to the Earth...”

yeah

as always, everyone knew, everyone saw - they thought he would fly to China - but he, a scoundrel, flew into the heart of Russia - that’s how it always is

from the media

Now they said on TV that he was not visible because of the sun, he was flying from the direction of the sun, and in general, astronomers have old and poor telescopes.....

Alex

Vitaly. So the “atmospheric diameter” will be a little larger.)

Peter

Alex, the atmospheric layer is 120 kilometers. You can ignore it :)

Alex

Vitaly. So the “atmospheric diameter” will be a little larger.)

Tatiana

Where are these scientists looking!!!! Just look, ordinary people were filming what happened! Where is the professional filming of the scientists who are monitoring all this??????? And in general, what do people get paid for? who sit there and don’t see a damn thing! And if they had found out in the very morning that there was going to be a meteor shower and notified everyone, and this could have been done, then there wouldn’t have been so many casualties!

Alexander

The speed of light in a vacuum is slightly less than 30 thousand km/sec

martini

Alexander, actually 300 thousand.

dcoresg

30-40 thousand kilometers per second? per hour, a meteorite cannot fly at 1/10 the speed of light

error

Indeed, if they had foreseen, they themselves would have filmed the fall, so they didn’t know shit, this is just the beginning

Boris

>>Vitaly: doesn’t it bother you that 40,000 kilometers is the perimeter of the Earth along the equator? What confuses me more is that you don’t see the difference between the perimeter and the long circle. As for the speed of 40 thousand km/sec, this is no less stupid than what you wrote.

Lisa

Write correctly - 30-40 km per second!

they are journalists, which means that they know practically nothing, they think the sun revolves around the earth

Boris

As always, they lie. The Russian Foreign Ministry claims that they knew in 2 days, and experts say that they can determine it in a few seconds. See you on earth. So who is right, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the specialist. I believe the specialist.

Igor

The Ministry of Defense could only know a general forecast about the likelihood of a meteor shower at a certain time in a certain place. Everything else is puffing out the cheeks. Ragozin, you know who, like Zhirinovsky. With the speed of the meteorite, clearly, they were mistaken 1000 times.

Gilt

Yes. Everyone lies and puffs out their cheeks. And when it hits, they cover up the traces of their incompetence and deception. And at the same time, people are being scammed out of money.

Unknown

During the filming, he flew at the speed of a “maize farmer.” Why didn't the hunters shoot him down with a gun?

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