Friday, February 15, 2013

A meteor—believed to be a small asteroid by NASA—enters the atmosphere and explodes above Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013.

Let's Party Like It's 1908! How ironic... Russia can't seem to send spacecraft out into deep space (Fobos-Grunt, Mars '96 and every other Red Planet-bound probe built by the former superpower), and yet huge objects from deep space keep finding their way into the atmosphere above our ex-Cold War nemesis. First Tunguska (which bore the wrath of what may have been a comet in 1908) and now this. You keep being the target of asteroids/comets/whatever while we plan on sending astronauts to one, fellow Muscovites (even though the meteor didn't strike anywhere near Moscow). Yay for American arrogance! Carry on.

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