According to media reports, a meteor shower rained space flak on the Chelyabinsk region of central Russia this morning. Insanely scary footage shows fragments hurtling to Earth, reportedly causing windows to break, cellphones to fail, and people to freak the hell out, with 100 reportedly injured by flying glass. "A meteorite disintegrated above the Urals, partially burning up in the lower atmosphere," the national emergencies ministry said in a statement. One YouTube commenter makes the point that some of the footage on this video is dated the end of last year. However, it wouldn't be the first time someone couldn't figure out how to set the date on their camera. So, we're not going to scream "Hoax!" just yet. "Help!" seems much more appropriate

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menurut laporan media setempat, telah terjadi hujan meteor didaerah Chelyabinsk - Central Russia pada pagi ini.

Rekaman yang mencekamkan benda asing meluncur ke bumi, yang menyebabkan beberapa jendela pecah, signal pada handphone terganggu dan warga ketakutan. Dilaporkan ada 100 yang terluka akibat pecahan kaca.

"meteorit hancur atas Ural, sebagian terbakar di atmosfer yang lebih rendah" kementerian keadaan darurat nasional mengatakan dalam sebuah pernyataan.

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Like trailers for the coming attraction, new images show asteroid 2012 DA14 on its way to a record-close approach to Earth on Feb. 15. One image, taken by amateur astronomer Dave Herald of Murrumbateman, Australia, on Feb. 13, shows the asteroid as a tiny white dot in the field of view. Another set of animated images, obtained by the Faulkes Telescope South in Siding Springs, Australia, on Feb. 14, and animated by the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy, shows the asteroid as a bright spot moving across the night sky.

These are some of many images that may be taken of the asteroid during its close - but safe - encounter with Earth. It will be observed by numerous optical observatories worldwide in an attempt to determine its rough shape, spin rate and composition. NASA scientists will use NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, located in California's Mojave Desert, to take radar images of the asteroid to determine its precise size and shape on Feb. 16, 18, 19 and 20. The NASA Near Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program will continue to track the asteroid and predict its future orbit.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 is about 150 feet (45 meters) in diameter. It is expected to fly about 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface at the time of closest approach, which is about 11:25 a.m. PST (2:25 p.m. EST) on Feb. 15. This distance is well away from Earth and the swarm of low Earth-orbiting satellites, including the International Space Station, but it is inside the belt of satellites in geostationary orbit (about 22,200 miles, or 35,800 kilometers, above Earth's surface.) The flyby of 2012 DA14 is the closest-ever predicted approach to Earth for an object this large.

The NASA Near Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using ground- and space-based telescopes. The network of projects supported by this program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

The Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL manages the technical and scientific activities for NASA's Near-Earth Object Observation Program of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The NEOO Program Office performs more precise orbit determination on the objects, and predicts whether any will become an impact hazard to the Earth, or any other planet in the solar system.

More information is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsyst...roidflyby.html.