Meteor trace

A huge meteor flew over Urals early in the morning 02/15/2013. The fireball exploded above Chelyabinsk city that caused damages of buildings and hundreds of people injured.

This photo was taken at about 200km distance in a minute after I saw the blast.

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"The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. The meteor entered the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second). The impact time was 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15), and the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons.

Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons. "
(NASA)

Date: February 15, 2013

Tags: objects, ural, sky, meteorite