{"id":17752,"date":"2013-02-16T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T11:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=17752"},"modified":"2013-02-16T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T11:37:45","slug":"chelyabinsk-meteorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/16\/chelyabinsk-meteorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelyabinsk meteorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>By now, everyone has probably already heard about the meteorite that exploded over the Chelyabinsk city in Russia. \u00a0There are tonnes of videos on YouTube and photos all over the web. \u00a0I think this one, that meshes a few of them together, is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMygG4F0hk8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And as far as comments go, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=3464177&amp;cid=42908793\">this Slashdot comment<\/a> is the best:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meteors are the universe&#8217;s way to ask\u00a0hows your space program going.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And the last thing I want to add on the subject is that I&#8217;m really glad nobody is dead. \u00a0A lot of people were injured, and there is plenty of damage to buildings, but that all is repairable. \u00a0If that trajectory of that thing was slightly different, and it hit the ground before exploding, I imagine the damage would be way greater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>By now, everyone has probably already heard about the meteorite that exploded over the Chelyabinsk city in Russia. \u00a0There are tonnes of videos on YouTube and photos all over the web. \u00a0I think this one, that meshes a few of them together, is pretty good. And as far as comments go, I think this Slashdot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/16\/chelyabinsk-meteorite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chelyabinsk meteorite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1338,2909,53,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-17752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-disasters","tag-russia","tag-space","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15877,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/10\/meteor-vs-meteorite-vs-meteoroid\/","url_meta":{"origin":17752,"position":0},"title":"Meteor vs. Meteorite vs. Meteoroid","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are not an\u00a0astronaut\u00a0 or some other kind of space geek, chances are you have no idea what's the difference between meteor, meteorite and meteoroid. \u00a0If you are anything like, you probably use meteor and meteorite\u00a0interchangeably. \u00a0Apparently, there is quite a specific difference. \u00a0Here is an easy to understand\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":207,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/05\/03\/kvn\/","url_meta":{"origin":17752,"position":1},"title":"KVN","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 3, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"We went to Larnaca today for a KVN show. 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