What happened? Recall...

Friday, February 15, 2013 At 09:20 local time, a sparkling ball traced the sky over the Southern Urals, gently descending, leaving behind a trail similar to an airplane, but somehow strange. And suddenly - a blinding flash, which for five seconds lit up everything around with an incredibly white light - much brighter than the sun. A minute later, the sky was split by a roar from a powerful explosion. Following the first - a few more peals, weaker. The shock wave completed the apocalyptic picture. Alarms on cars howled... Glass was broken in thousands of windows, window frames flew out, plaster fell from the ceilings, many years of dust was blown out of the ventilation into the rooms... Dozens of cars skidded and pushed into ditches on the roads, thousands of buildings were damaged, near the zinc plant the wall of one of the buildings fell off... The damage was more than a billion rubles... In terms of the number of victims of the meteoroid (and there are more than 1,600 people), the world's documented history has no analogues.

Versions

The unexpected heavenly guest excited the Russians. Versions poured in like a bucket. They assured, for example, that the fireball was the work of human hands. Like, the fallen meteorite is not a meteorite at all, but a combat missile of the Ministry of Defense. Dispersed only in accessories. Some believed that it was an unsuccessful launch and self-destruction of our rocket, and offered to urgently establish its tail number. Others argued that it was the American Trident-2 rocket, into the monohead of which, in order to confuse the Russians, instead of the warhead, the adversaries stuffed fragments of real meteorites, of which thousands are found around the world. And someone from a high rostrum ardently and categorically stated that this was a test of a new American space weapon. And the Urals was chosen as a target, because it is stuffed with military facilities.

Exotic versions have been added to the conspiracy theories: here are the “sign of God”, and “mini-Armageddon”, and “the fall of fragments of the old reality”, and “testing the strength of the psychic shield of mankind” ... Naturally, there was an alien version. Some assured that it was an official cosmic message from our friendly planet Nibiru. Others, on the contrary, believed that it was a special container with viruses intended to destroy humanity. And someone, as usual, saw a crashed alien ship in the heavenly messenger ...

The military immediately dismissed the “weapon” versions: not a single aircraft, not a single rocket today is even able to develop even half the speed of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. In addition, it is absolutely incomprehensible where such a hypothetical weapon could start and what purpose to pursue. Yes, and there is no such weapon today: neither space-based nor other-based ...

The abundance of ridiculous versions once again demonstrated the ignorance and illiteracy that reign today in the vastness of the once "most reading country in the world." The head of the meteorite expedition of the Ural Federal University, a member of the RAS committee on meteorites, Viktor Grokhovsky, was forced to comment bitterly: “The spread of versions on social networks is due to the fact that these people do not study astronomy.”

Data

The picture more or less cleared up after analyzing data from several independent sources. At first glance, it looks quite classic.

A meteoroid (it will be called a meteorite only after the discovery of its fragments on the Earth's surface) about 17 meters in diameter and weighing from 7 to 10 thousand tons burst into the atmosphere of our planet at a speed of about 20 km / s (72 thousand km / h) somewhere then in the Baikal region. In any case, a smoky trail began approximately there, which was later found on the pictures of meteorological satellites. The meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere at a very sharp angle at an altitude of about 90 km. Subsequently, it flew along a rather gentle, almost sliding trajectory from the southeast to the northwest along an azimuth of about 290 degrees.

Braking and heating up from friction in the atmosphere, a celestial body the size of a six-story building and weighing the Eiffel Tower quickly turned into a bright fireball, leaving behind a tail of combustion products. The duration of the flight from the moment of its entry into the atmosphere until the moment of explosion is a little more than half a minute.

The flight of the meteoroid over the Chelyabinsk region was accompanied by several explosions of different power and a blinding flash lasting about five seconds. The first, most powerful explosion occurred at an altitude of about 30 km, after which the meteoroid that fell apart moved to an even flatter trajectory and began to quickly lose speed. At an altitude of 15 km, it was already 4.3 km / s. The approximate temperature of the explosion is more than 2.5 thousand degrees. Power - up to 500 kilotons of TNT, that is, ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The shock wave from the explosion, which caused the main destruction, reached the surface of the earth only after a couple of minutes.

We add that after the explosion of the meteorite, the brightness of sunlight over Chelyabinsk increased so much that the inhabitants began to feel an unusual heat emanating from the February sun, and the Miass River even began to evaporate. Astrophysicists explained: as a result of the explosion, an ozone hole formed over the region.

According to experts, no more than 10 percent of the initial mass of the meteorite body, that is, about a thousand tons of matter, reached the earth. Fragments that did not evaporate from the explosion in the form of dust dispersed in a band about 20 km wide and up to 150 km long.

Soon, in the Chelyabinsk region, three debris fall sites were discovered: two in Chebarkul and one in the Zlatoust region. The moment the fragments fell was directly observed by fishermen near Chebarkul Lake. According to them, one of the seven fragments fell directly into the lake, throwing up a four-meter column of water and ice. In the following days, members of the meteorite expedition discovered dozens of meteorite fragments in the area of ​​Lake Chebarkul and in other places. Their chemical analyzes refuted all exotic versions: the heavenly guest turned out to be a typical stone meteorite - one of those called chondrites. Of the ten meteorites that have fallen to Earth, nine are chondrites. Chelyabinsk fragments consist of minerals of different colors: black, white, gray, pierced with shiny streaks of metal. They contain olivine, sulfites, iron nickel, metallic iron... no new elements. Present on the fragments and melting bark. Exceeding the radiation background in the region was not revealed. In general, nothing special. Unless some fragments differ from their "brothers" in composition. But this, the researchers believe, speaks only of the heterogeneous mineral composition of the celestial body itself.

The latter circumstance allowed scientists to put forward a version that it was not quite a meteorite that exploded over the Urals, but an ice comet with meteorite inclusions: stone and other refractory inclusions that, over millions of years of wandering around the solar system, accumulated in an ice block from collisions with space debris. This version is also supported by the fact that our orbiting satellite Meteor, during the passage of a meteorite through its orbit, recorded signs characteristic of a comet, in particular, an increase in the amount of water.

We add that the Chebarkul car was not a loner.

On the morning of the same day, a meteor shower was recorded in five regions of Russia: Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan regions and Bashkiria.

But it all started even earlier - four days before the Chelyabinsk explosion: on February 11, a large fireball flew over the territory of Bashkiria. And on February 14, that is, on the eve of the doomsday over Chelyabinsk, CCTV cameras in Japan recorded a night invasion of the atmosphere and bright flashes of several objects very similar to Russia. In Japan, there were no consequences.

What can not be said about Cuba. The fact is that a falling fireball, which seemed “lighter than the sun”, was observed over the Island of Freedom two hours before the Ural meteorite. State television of the country reported that the fall of the meteorite occurred in the central region of Cuba near the town of Rodas. There were no casualties, but several buildings were damaged.

Let's add one more event to this list: a few hours after the Chelyabinsk explosion, a strange glow of the sky and fiery flashes were observed in the western United States, over San Francisco Bay (California).

Scientists believe that these space aliens, like our Chelyabinsk one, belong to a group of asteroids called Apollos. They are located between the orbits of Venus and Jupiter, regularly cross the Earth's orbit and therefore are potentially dangerous for our planet.

It would seem that everything is clear and there are no special surprises to expect. But it's not that simple...

Riddles

There were plenty of riddles and puzzled questions. And they are caused, oddly enough, scientific and technological progress. A huge number of eyewitnesses with digital cameras, video cameras and mobile phones, car registrars, outdoor surveillance cameras at institutions recorded a lot of strange and even improbable things.

The most natural question arises first: why did the meteorite explode? It would seem that the answer is obvious, and the official media adhere to it: upon entering the atmosphere, the body heated up and exploded. However... According to experts, none of the known cosmic bodies can explode by itself with the power of dozens of atomic bombs. "Thermal" explosions do not occur in either iron or stone meteorites. Not to mention ice or snow comets. Especially at such a height - even before entering the dense layers of the atmosphere. For such an explosion to occur, the cosmic body had to consist entirely of super-efficient explosives! But science does not even hypothetically imagine meteorites with the properties of a nuclear warhead. And also a blinding flash - brighter than the sun. Neither a thermal nor a chemical explosion can give such brightness ...

It seems that some answers to these questions lie in several videos that appeared on the Internet shortly after the fall of the Chebarkul meteorite, moreover, taken from different points (for example,). The video shows the flight of a descending meteoroid with a small tail even BEFORE THE EXPLOSION. A detailed frame-by-frame examination clearly shows how a certain luminous object of an oblong shape WITH A SPEED, THREE TIMES EXCEEDING THE SPEED OF A METEOROID, catches up with it from behind, literally pierces through and continues its flight horizontally at its original speed and the same course.

There are no grounds to consider the record a fake: no glues, no signs of editing or computer graphics were found. But there are signs of targeted action. First of all, we see a classic example of an "interception" attack from the rear hemisphere. The only difference is that the destruction and explosion of the meteoroid did not occur due to the explosion of the "interceptor" itself, as is customary in air defense, but by the most environmentally friendly method - due to the huge kinetic energy of the attacking object. The latter, having crushed the meteorite into pieces and received no visible damage, continued its movement at the same speed and along the same trajectory. Surprisingly, after a short time (after a few frames), the mysterious "interceptor" began to RISE a little and ... disappeared, literally dissolving in the air. By the way, he also appeared “out of nothing” before the attack.

Judging by the ease with which the "interceptor" pierced and crushed the meteoroid, the latter did not have a very high density. It looks like it was actually a block of ice with various stone inclusions, which is also confirmed by fragments found on the ground. The elongated view of the meteoroid fragments flying from the explosion is most likely due to the peculiarities of the video itself (fast moving objects in the video often look elongated). However, here, too, there are some surprises. One fragment behaved rather strangely: at first it flew with a decrease, and then suddenly went up, as if catching up with the "interceptor". SO THE SHARDS DO NOT FLY AFTER THE EXPLOSION ...

Attempts to attribute such maneuvers to a dirty windshield in front of a car DVR or to defects in a video camera look, to put it mildly, unprofessional: dirt spots or defects on the glass do not move relative to each other and look completely different ...

It has been suggested that the recording shows "the disintegration of a meteoroid after the first (main) explosion". This is not true. Firstly, it was the first explosion (as a result of the “attack”) that was captured on video. And secondly, during the explosion, the fragments should scatter from the center of the explosion, and not strive towards it, as we see in the video. It is impossible even theoretically to attribute the chasing and ramming object to a fragment that had previously broken off from the same meteorite. A fragment that broke off earlier can only lag behind the main object, but in no way exceed it in speed...

Eyewitnesses say the same thing. Here is one of the observations: “I am from Miass. I saw everything myself from the Ilmensky ridge, i.e. in profile ... After the explosion, I clearly saw how the cylinder, leaving behind a weak inverse trail along the glide path with a slight decrease (and not at all along the ballista!) went to Kazakhstan. What it was, it seems, we will never know ... "

Who attacked the meteoroid? Where did the "terminator" come from? What was he like? Which disappeared? There are no answers to these questions yet. It can only be noted that the “interception” method, in contrast to the “chase” (“dog curve”) method, indicates an accurate calculation of the place and time of the meeting, that is, a high level of scientific and technical support for the attack.

In the USA, they wrote about the "secret weapon of the Russians." In the Chelyabinsk region, someone spread a rumor that the meteorite was shot down by an air defense or missile defense missile. But the military honestly admitted that not only to shoot down, but even to detect such an object in a timely manner "because of its small size and high speed." There are no rockets in the world today with speeds a hundred times faster than the speed of sound. As one specialist of the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces commented on this situation, “To shoot down an object moving at space speed with a rocket is simply an unrealistic task today. Attacking a space object from behind, even with the most modern rocket, covering 20 kilometers in a second, is like catching up with a courier train on a bicycle.

By the way, similar events occurred in Japan in January 2002. On published on the Internet video recordings a UFO is seen flying by a Japanese meteorite moments before the explosion. After the explosion, the UFO sharply increases its speed and disappears into the sky. Whether the UFO caused the explosion, we probably will never know ...

Let's note a few more mysteries that the Chelyabinsk meteorite left behind.

One of them is a smoke trail, which was recorded by video cameras. at the time of the explosion. The most interesting thing is that when shooting, the camera was directed to the east - where the meteorite was flying from (the backlight of the "explosive" cloud and the dawn sky are clearly visible). And this means that the smoky strip is not a trace of a meteorite! Then whose footprint is it? The thought was expressed: maybe the trail leads not to the meteorite, but from it? And it was not a meteorite that left him, but the same object flying away from the explosion site, which rammed and smashed the dangerous heavenly guest to pieces? By the way, on the video footage you can see how fragments fly out of the epicenter of the explosion, leaving a white contrail (evaporated ice)?

- and UFO activity in the Ural region on the eve of the Chelyabinsk event, as reported by eyewitnesses ...

- and a huge number of paratroopers, who on the same day were urgently transferred with armored vehicles to Chelyabinsk by order of the Minister of Defense. Several hundred soldiers and paratroopers of the 217th Airborne Regiment from Ivanovo were alerted early in the morning and threw twenty Il-76 aircraft to the Shagol airfield, and from it to the Chebarkul training ground. The official version is a sudden check of combat readiness. It should be noted that such large-scale inspections have not been carried out for more than twenty years. As reported, about 7,000 military personnel, hundreds of pieces of military equipment and about 40 aircraft for various purposes took part in the exercises. And although, according to the military, these unscheduled exercises are in no way connected with the visit of the space "aliens", the military keep the legend and duration of the exercises a secret ...

- and hundreds of strange snow bumps from 10 to 20 cm high, which suddenly appeared on the ice of Lake Chebarkul about a month after the Chelyabinsk events. The reason for their appearance is not yet clear, but they are believed to be somehow related to the fallout of micrometeorites.

- fragments of the February celestial alien.

Questions, questions...

If the meteorite had not been blown up at a more or less safe height, but would have flown whole to the surface of the Earth, the consequences could have been catastrophic. Especially when you consider that Chelyabinsk is full of military and nuclear facilities...

We will not now build hypotheses about who shot down the meteorite and saved us from a monstrous catastrophe. The time will come, and perhaps we will find out more...

Vitaly Pravdivtsev


20 February 2013, 15:10:24
If we translate into plain language the military-bureaucratic report about the missile launch on February 15, and also taking into account other information in this topic (of course, skipping everything irrelevant like "meteorite" and "UFO wars"), the following picture is drawn.
FURTHER, AS THE READER UNDERSTANDS, IN THIS SCI-FI EPISODE ALL NAMES ARE FICTED, ALL COINCIDENCES ARE RANDOM.
On the eve of the event, the military is throwing a hypersonic kinetic missile into an orbit of 300-500 km, then a GKR. Since ballistic missiles do not go in such orbits, the Americans do not take retaliatory measures. But the Secretary of State is trying to get in touch with Lavrov to "scrub the issue." Lavrov, as Zhirinovsky blabbed, does not pick up the phone, is hiding "somewhere in Africa", avoids communication with the Secretary of State.
On the morning of the 15th, after a couple of circles in orbit, the GKR turns on the second stage and, having accelerated to a speed above the orbital one, it heads towards the Earth.

On the space-Chelyabinsk trajectory, everything is already ready for "interception". There is already a lot of evidence about bringing the military to combat readiness in advance in the region. Eyewitness Staryi72rus writes:
“In the morning, to be more precise, at 5-27 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (very close) an old friend called and said, now verbatim. if you close the curtains, everything around you, presumably in the Magnitka area, will be warm. All - I call home. …. Yes, they called everyone, I’ll get tired of listing where. I'm pissed because I have something to lose."
The 2nd phase of testing begins. GKR enters the atmosphere at space speed. Its "body" is covered with a special thermal protective material, the protective properties of which create the very effect of a "burning meteorite" that everyone saw when the GKR approached the scene.
Here, telemetry "probes" are already waiting for her (they are also observed by eyewitnesses, they are viewed on the videos posted on the network), two observing fighters at a distance and air defense crews in full combat readiness. Air defense begins to intercept. Several launches of ground-to-air missiles are carried out at the target.
An eyewitness writes:
“When the hype about the meteorite had just begun, one of the news sites had infa that the air defense systems deployed near Troitsk fired at the meteorite. Then it disappeared. I live on the border with Troitsk, and the truckers with whom we spoke said, that when they walked along the highway, they saw that a few seconds before the meteorite appeared in the sky, there was a rocket launch from the ground.
Apparently, the most important stage of testing takes place here. The GKR burns the "enemy" air defense missiles with a specially organized atomic ball around itself and practically without reducing the speed and trajectory, "leaves for Kazakhstan along the glide path with a slight decrease" (according to an eyewitness), leaving behind in the sky the very plume and atomic mushroom.
This was the task of the GKR: to pass unscathed through the air defense of the "enemy".
The question remains: why were such tests carried out in a densely populated area, and not on previous routes to the same Kura? It can be assumed that for the purity of the experiment, a real protective air defense belt was required - there is no need to create a new one in the taiga for this purpose, there is neither time nor dough for this, as usual ... And if something goes wrong, it will be possible to write off on a meteorite.
Finally, where did the dead air defense missiles go? In the atomic ball, they turned into insignificant fragments, which the military is now looking for. Moreover, the power of the GKR attack with an atomic charge was such that the remains of air defense missiles were carried away like dust for tens of kilometers in the direction of impact. In slow motion, it can be seen that these rockets, which at various forums were mistaken for "UFOs saving the Earth from a meteorite", are carried away by the GKR in the direction of its flight in a whirlwind. The same "chondrite" stones from a real meteorite were also "poured" into the rockets, so as not to offend scientists at all.
EPILOGUE
The real intended enemy, the Americans, of course, immediately understood the game of the Russians - they have their own GKR. But, in order not to complicate the socio-political situation for the Russians after such "trials", they simply waved their hand (what can you take from them, from these mysterious Russians) and began to play along. From here all this confusion with the sizes and speeds of "meteorite" given out by NASA and Russian scientists went. As for the real speed of the GKR, at the entrance to the attack zone, of course, it was already quite commensurate with the speeds of air defense missiles, at least for a frontal or side attack, which everyone watched on video (now, however, people are afraid, iPhone in addition to other personal initiatives, it will ban autoregistrators). Well, as for the speeds of the "meteorite" near the earth at several tens of km / s - this is infa for the noble public and has nothing to do with reality.

20 February 2013, 19:20:52
From the head. I looked at all these videos for a long time and tried to understand what was happening there. The picture finally took shape when I read in this thread about the principle of operation of a kenetic rocket. Some things don't add up, though. It is now that the rocket was not touched in orbit, since the exercises, we have the right. But as soon as it comes down to it, they will start to graze it. To protect it in orbit, you will need a satellite military constellation, and with this we are still seams. In general, everything is again in a circle. But that's me, "reflections on the novel", I'm not a techie.

20 February 2013, 22:09:34
Well, IMHO, the most ingenious solution here is, being in some kind of intensively burning "shell", on the way to the air defense system, collect all the fired missiles (for heat), then burn them with an atomic flash, at the same time completely burning your own with the same flash " shell", and already "naked" to continue moving towards the goal. After all, after the explosions, eyewitnesses now saw precisely the "cylinder", "gone to Kazakhstan." Perhaps the "cylinder" then changed direction to the Kura and hit a hypothetical target there.

21 February 2013, 18:55:57
I can’t download the video (probably the format is not provided for in this forum), I just give the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iCawTYPtehk

If this video is conditionally divided into 4-5 parts (starting with the appearance of a "meteorite" in the upper left corner), then the whole "battle" is in full view. The slow entrance of the Voyevoda, or whatever it is, in its fiery shell; collecting all air defense missiles fired upon the fact of the situation; almost instantaneous destruction of all air defense missiles by an outward (ball) atomic explosion; leaving the "cylinder-Voevoda" of its outer burnt shell; instant transition to Mach 7 (Americans, as far as I know, still know how to do Mach 6); and, in fact, instantaneous dissolution in space due to the hypersonic speed that is extreme today, ON A STRICT DIRECT line beyond the horizon. Moreover, the entire "battle" lasts 20 seconds! Probably, this is the time to launch the complex already prepared for launch. But the cylinder is already bye-bye, Moscow-Voronezh ... you won’t catch up.
Am I the only one who sees how GORGEOUS this is? Or I'm just dumb, because for the first time I really started to respect the Russian defense industry. I hope that there, in fact, is still much more elegant.

21 February 2013, 20:10:50
Today, over coffee with a friend, we just raised this issue. I spoke in the sense that they are simply collecting radioactive debris from rockets that have fallen into an explosion (well, including). But, just in case, they collect everything that is left for further improvements of the improved, so to speak.
Now we read the very phrase that issues the event:
"State tests were successful, a target missile simulating advanced enemy anti-missile defense systems was successfully destroyed at an altitude of about 20 km by a new anti-missile defense system. The ICBM itself continued to fly in normal mode and hit a combat training target at the Kura nuclear test site ..."
So what is important after all: was a "simulating target missile" hit or an "ICBM that hit a combat training target at the Kura nuclear test site"?
For example, I see, first of all, an ICBM that has gone from the place of the "battle" to the combat training target. But the “target missile that imitates advanced enemy anti-missile defense systems,” which was “successfully destroyed at an altitude of about 20 km by a new anti-missile defense system,” is just the defending “enemy”, which in this exercise was represented by the Ural air defense. And which, in this case, was destroyed "at an altitude of about 20 km" (!) by the new ABM OVERCOMING complex (note, ABM, but not air defense). The ICBM destroyed and overcame "a target missile imitating promising enemy anti-missile defense systems."
This is how I understand this information about the "successful launch".

21 February 2013, 22:30:39
There are other opinions. For example, that Pu has just a very difficult relationship with the military-industrial complex (albeit lying on its hind legs with Pu), but nevertheless there are people there too.
In general, the problem is this (as I imagine): Pu owes the Family, and the Siloviki must seize the initiative. That is, Pu sits on two chairs. But Pu is a played piece. Everything is clear, it's just a matter of time.
But in the cultural confrontation between VPK-Culture, I would support the opinion of the well-known Russian national democrat Karabanov when he says that military clans should be at the head of the Russian state. But only politically. They should not interfere in the civil, cultural, economic life of people. That is, they know how to protect us, and we know how to feed them, and the parity of Russian society is built on this. The military has always been respected in Russia. Even I will never spit on the military (not to be confused with these, you know who), although I play in dub-blues-rock clubs.

22 February 2013, 19:38:33
Air defense missiles "catching up" with an aircraft are the last century. At modern speeds, it is possible to shoot down an object only by going out to "cross" it. According to eyewitnesses - truck drivers, the launches of air defense missiles were made a few seconds before the appearance of the "meteorite". That is, the object was detected by air defense before its visual observation from the ground, and the missiles did not follow, but cut across. On slow-motion footage, one "catching up" rocket was actually at an angle to the "meteorite". The rest are at a right angle from the back side relative to us, the observers. We see them in slow motion shots already struck, out of control and randomly flying in different directions "in front of the object."

22 February 2013, 21:49:08
Excuse me, I probably didn’t go to school either, so I don’t understand what Wikipedia says about the sound barrier, that is, “cotton”. Or I understand that along the entire route of a hypersonic aircraft on the ground, a train of broken glass spreads behind it.
Read the comments here to this: http://elementy.ru/email/1481540
There are "pros", but there are also "against", where people justifiably call it "nonsense".

22 February 2013, 22:47:55
I also say that "we do not hold out." As a child, I often lived in the countryside, in that area there was a military airfield, aircraft occasionally performed training flights with the transition to hypersonic. At this moment there was the same "cotton". Very softly said, super-tolerant: "cotton". Once in our house, glass really fell out of the frame from this "cotton". If what you read on Wikipedia were true, then the population within a radius of 200 km around that air regiment would hesitate to insert glass.
PS. By the way, I remember the sound features of this "clap" very well. Its character can be compared to the dense beat of a bass drum in an orchestra. There are not even "peals" from him, like from thunder. It's not to say that the microphone pickups of mobile phones transmit sound with high quality, but nevertheless ... What we hear in the recordings on a mobile phone has nothing to do with the "sound barrier" at all, it is not even close.

22 February 2013, 23:15:57
What you interpret as the passage of a shock wave is heard on the ground as a growing and then receding rumble. What we really hear at the time of the flight of the aircraft at hypersonic speed. But not cotton. Right now, I'll look for links for you.

23 February 2013, 05:49:53
It is written there: "The reason for this is the shock wave that occurs when an aircraft flies at supersonic speed. When the shock wave reaches the earth's surface, it is perceived as a ROLL OF THUNDER."
Exactly, like a roll of thunder, growing and then receding. I called it "roar". I had the pleasure of hearing enough in the city of Zhukovsky. What do you mean by this link? This has nothing to do with our beloved meteorite. The shock wave from the explosions is recorded on two videos, you can listen:

By the way, hurry up, the meteorite rollers seem to have already been removed from youtube.

23 February 2013, 06:38:26
Of course, it’s not my business to enter into someone else’s dialogue, but you, excuse me, are either a troll or you simply have nothing to do. The Strela-2M MANPADS complex is indeed designed to destroy low-flying, slow air targets. Or did you not know that not all cruise missiles fly hypersonic? But here, in fact, we are talking about modern hypersonic weapons, because it is interesting for ourselves to understand what is wrong with this "meteorite". What is the "catch-up speed" at several strokes? In order for a nuclear warhead and an interceptor missile to reach the target at the same time, the effect will be better, or what?

23 February 2013, 16:54:33
The weak link in the information support of the Meteorite project, of course, turned out to be that cameras are now everywhere. So many recordings from video recorders, surveillance cameras and mobile phones were probably the most unpleasant surprise for someone. An atomic explosion, practically, can no longer be concealed. Therefore, "Plan B" begins to be implemented. On some murky information sites, articles like "The Strategic Missile Forces will fight meteorites with the help of ICBMs with an atomic charge" have already begun to appear. If anything, it was not the aliens who saved you, but the Strategic Missile Forces, by blowing up a terrible meteorite.
All this is bad: the technologies are the latest, and the propaganda support is the most dense.

23 February 2013, 22:11:21
In order to somewhat "defuse the situation", here I give a reference - a real harsh Chelyabinsk citizen writes what he saw.
http://www.berkem.ru/mitearitnoe/
With regard to the topic of discussion, you can pay attention to the following places, for example:
“The MiG-25 was quite frankly following the Mitearit. I don’t confuse it, because I remember well how they fly at that time. and made a U-turn with a sharp descent. Apparently, it was not our Chelyabinsk pilot, he just passed the Event to his Chelyabinsk colleagues and went home :-)"
And here it is:
"Mytearite proved to be a fine fellow, for he flew sharply from east to west, along a very slightly inclined trajectory, almost parallel to the ground. Didn't fly a little; Well, nothing, next time will definitely last. ")))

23 February 2013, 22:47:52
Yes, everything is fine. When the Timurites come to blame us for disclosing a terrible bourgeois secret, we will excuse ourselves that they say they smoked something.

23 February 2013, 23:02:51
Automatically read: "By prior agreement ..."
Well, they ... Completely forgot that's what. Central Russian time left an hour before midnight. And what are we talking about? About our defense industry, which has reached such an art! I myself have served my duty faithfully. But the army is not mine. Nevertheless, I also want to honestly congratulate all the honest warriors who read this forum on their Military Holiday!

24 February 2013, 13:30:59
We are quoted in blogs:
http://pillaev.livejournal.com/12382.html

25 February 2013, 02:28:24
If you are talking about that "picture", which is slow-motion frames, then on them the "meteorite" moves at an angle to us, the observers, namely, it moves away towards the horizon. An object that seems to be "catching up" is actually attacking from the opposite side, that is, it flies across.
But most importantly, where do all these speed figures of tens of km / s come from? They were imposed on us by the media. You can even visually see that before the explosion, the "meteorite" moves at the usual "airplane" speed, and only after that does it accelerate sharply, maybe up to Mach 7-9, i.e. 2-3 km / s, well, maybe 5 km / s, as Spasin points out, there are supposedly such air defense missiles now. But no way 30-50 km / s. These are some interplanetary speeds for traveling to Pluto. It is strange why the media did not announce 150 km / s - it would be even cooler.
Here are the tests of the American X-51A, Mach 6 - 2 km / s. Visually, the speed is quite comparable to that which we observe in our "meteorite" after the explosion, when it is already leaving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VZUwKX3_uE4

26 February 2013, 05:37:36
More eyewitness accounts:
"I look out - a fireball swells before my eyes, a contrail stretches towards it, towards the North-West some DARK OBJECT flies away.
From here: http://aljon.livejournal.com/691243.html

26 February 2013, 14:03:12
Sergey Yazev, Director of the Astronomical Observatory of the Irkutsk State University.
Note that all estimates made in Russia give significantly lower values. I am also inclined to believe that the estimates attributed to NASA greatly exaggerated.
How the Americans estimated the speed, and how correctly they did it - (to me) is still unclear.
As for the "second Tunguska" - this is a vivid comparison, but far from the truth.
In television programs, centimeter-sized dark pebbles are shown, which seem to have magnetic properties. They are presented as fragments of a fallen meteorite. The sale of samples has already been launched.
And the last. The statements of the Minister of Emergency Situations Puchkov about the meteor shower and that it is impossible to fix such bodies in advance, unfortunately, sound very unprofessional. There are already many examples where bodies of similar size were found a day or two or three before the flight near the Earth and even before the collision(Sudanese meteorite 2008).
From here: http://www.ogirk.ru/blog/columnist/yazev/2013-02-18/28353.html

This video is the bomb! It just kills the whole meteorite legend. The glow begins much below the boundaries of the stratosphere. Obviously, not much higher in height than the "event". That is, all calculations of speeds based on the time of the descent of the "meteorite" from the beginning of the stratosphere (100 km) are invalid! This is a missile fired from an aircraft at an altitude of ~25-30 km and set on fire, then it descends to a height of ~20 km, where the "battle" with air defense missiles takes place.
Spasin, close the topic - they will come after all!

MOSCOW, February 14 - RIA Novosti. A year ago, on February 15, 2013, the inhabitants of the southern Urals witnessed a cosmic catastrophe - the fall of an asteroid, which was the first such event in history that caused serious damage to people.

In the first moments, the inhabitants of the region spoke about the explosion of an "incomprehensible object" and strange flashes. Scientists have been studying this event for a whole year, what they managed to find out at this point - read in the RIA Novosti review.

What was it?

A rather ordinary space body fell in the Chelyabinsk region. Events of this magnitude occur once every 100 years, and according to some sources, even more often, up to five times a century. Scientists believe that bodies about ten meters in size (about half the size of the Chelyabinsk body) enter the Earth's atmosphere about once a year, but this happens most often over the oceans or over sparsely populated regions. Such bodies explode and burn at high altitude without causing any harm.

The size of the Chelyabinsk asteroid before the fall was about 19.8 meters, and the mass was from 7 thousand to 13 thousand tons. According to scientists, in total, from 4 to 6 tons fell to the ground, that is, about 0.05% of the original mass. Of this amount, no more than 1 ton has been collected at the moment, taking into account the largest fragment weighing 654 kilograms, lifted from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul.

Geochemical analysis showed that the Chelyabinsk space object belongs to the type of ordinary chondrites of the LL5 class. Chondrites are one of the most common types of stony meteorites, about 87% of all meteorites found are of this type. They are distinguished by the presence in the thickness of rounded millimeter-sized grains - chondrules, which consist of a partially melted substance.

Expert: the largest fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite weighs 654 kgThe exact weight of the largest fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which was taken from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul in mid-October 2013, was 654 kg, the director of the company that performed the operation to lift the meteorite told reporters.

Data from infrasound stations indicate that the power of the explosion that occurred at the moment of sharp deceleration of the Chelyabinsk asteroid at an altitude of about 90 kilometers ranged from 470 to 570 kilotons of TNT equivalent - this is 20-30 times more powerful than the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, but more than ten times less than the explosion power at the time of the Tunguska disaster (from 10 to 50 megatons).

What made this fall unique was the place and the time. This is the first case in history of a large meteorite falling in a densely populated area, so the fall of a meteorite has never caused such serious damage - 1.6 thousand people turned to doctors, 112 were hospitalized, windows were broken in 7.3 thousand buildings.

Thanks to this, scientists have received a huge amount of data about the event - this is the best documented meteorite fall. As it turned out later, one of the video cameras even captured the moment the largest fragment fell into Lake Chebarkul.

Where did this come from?

Chelyabinsk asteroid in the past could have been very close to the SunScientists from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy have found that some fragments of the fireball bear traces of melting and crystallization processes that took place long before this body fell to Earth.

Scientists answered this question almost immediately: from the main asteroid belt of the solar system, the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where the trajectories of many small bodies pass. The orbits of some of them, in particular, the asteroids of the Apollo or Aten group, are elongated and can cross the earth's orbit.

Due to the fact that the flight of the Chelyabinsk fireball was recorded on a lot of videos and photographs, including satellite ones, astronomers were able to quite accurately reconstruct its trajectory, and then try to continue this line back through the atmosphere in order to plot the orbit of this body.

Attempts to restore the trajectory of the Chelyabinsk body before the collision with the Earth were made by different groups of astronomers. Their calculations showed that the semi-major axis of the orbit of the Chelyabinsk asteroid was about 1.76 astronomical units (the average radius of the Earth's orbit), the perihelion (the point of the orbit closest to the Sun) was at a distance of 0.74 units, and the aphelion (the most distant point) was 2 .6 units.

With this data in hand, scientists tried to find the Chelyabinsk asteroid in the catalogs of previously discovered small bodies. It is known that many already discovered asteroids are “lost” again after some time, and some of them are discovered twice. Scientists did not rule out that the Chelyabinsk object belonged to such "lost" bodies.

Scientists have found a new "parent" of the Chelyabinsk asteroidEarlier, Spanish astronomers selected another potential candidate for the role of the Chelyabinsk fireball among the asteroids known to scientists - in their opinion, a fragment of the asteroid 2011 EO40 could fall in the Urals.

His relatives

Although an exact match could not be found, scientists have found several possible "relatives" of the "Chelyabinsk". The group of Jiri Borovichka from the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, having calculated the trajectory of the Chelyabinsk body, found that it is very similar to the orbit of the 2.2-kilometer asteroid 86039 (1999 NC43). In particular, the semi-major axis of the orbit of both bodies is 1.72 and 1.75 astronomical units, the perihelion distance is 0.738 and 0.74.

Scientists do not know why fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite are of different colorsThe meteorite, subsequently named Chelyabinsk, fell on February 15, 2013. Scientists still cannot figure out why some meteorite fragments are completely dark, while others are light inside.

Fragments of the Chelyabinsk cosmic body that fell to the ground "told" scientists the story of his life. It turned out that the Chelyabinsk asteroid is the same age as the solar system. An analysis of the isotope ratio of lead and uranium showed that its age is about 4.45 billion years.

However, about 290 million years ago, the Chelyabinsk asteroid experienced a major catastrophe - a collision with another cosmic body. This is evidenced by dark veins in its thickness - traces of melting of the substance during a powerful blow.

At the same time, scientists believe that it was a very "fast" process. Traces of cosmic particles - tracks of iron nuclei - did not have time to melt, which means that the “accident” itself lasted no more than a few minutes, experts from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences said.

At the same time, it is possible that traces of melting could have occurred during a too close approach of the asteroid to the Sun, scientists from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy (IGM) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences believe.

What happened in Chelyabinsk?

On Friday, February 15, a rather rare event took place. In the morning, a certain object appeared in the sky at high altitude, which left behind a trail that was clearly visible even hundreds of kilometers from Chelyabinsk. Then this object exploded. A very bright flash was captured by hundreds of video cameras. After some time (different in different settlements), sound and shock waves reached the audience. The sound of the explosion was very strong. The shock wave was so strong that tens of kilometers from the explosion there were massive damage to residential and industrial buildings. Radiation remained within the normal range. Here's what the site said on Friday "News":

“In Chelyabinsk, 725 residents of the city who suffered as a result of a meteor shower applied for medical help, 159 of them were children. This was reported in the press service of the city administration. According to her, 31 people have been hospitalized at the moment, 12 of them are children. The Russian Ministry of Health previously reported 571 victims in the Chelyabinsk region and 34 hospitalized. The press service of the Chelyabinsk administration clarified that the injuries were received mainly from glass fragments after the windows were broken by a blast wave. Medical institutions of Chelyabinsk are working in an enhanced mode, traumatologists, resuscitators, surgeons are additionally called, ITAR-TASS notes. A meteor shower was recorded on Friday morning in five regions of Russia - over the territory of the Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan regions and Bashkortostan. The places where the fragments of the meteorite fell were found in three districts of the Chelyabinsk region. Glass was shattered in almost 300 buildings…”

Other sources

Director of the Department of Planetology NASA Jim Green admitted that his department failed to predict the meteorite fall in the Chelyabinsk region. The representative of the American government explained that the capabilities of surveillance technologies have their limits - you can track as little as 15% of the total number of meteorites colliding with the Earth. In addition, Jim Green reported that a medium-sized meteorite flew over Russia about 15 meters in diameter. Space bodies of this size very rarely fall near places where many people live, according to NHK.

NTV.Ru recalls: on the eve of the meteorite caused a real panic in the Chelyabinsk region. The fireball at a speed of 64 thousand kilometers per hour entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded at an altitude of 19-24 kilometers. We saw a terrible plume in the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regions, as well as in Kazakhstan. The power of the explosion was 300 before 500 kilotons- This is 20 times more than from the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. About 1,200 people were injured by the meteorite, and glass was broken in many houses. Fragments of the meteorite were searched in Lake Chebarkul, but they could not find anything. It is possible that the "space guest" burned to the ground.

Even philologists can't sleep

It turned out that even Comrade Latynina (philologist) vigilantly guards the interests of the Fatherland and immediately asks tricky questions to the Minister of Defense. These questions have already been removed from the newspaper's website, but Papa Muller kept them in the form of a screenshot. The wording and essence of the questions clearly show that Com. Latynina is really a philologist, and understands absolutely nothing about what she asks questions about. Moreover, by the nature of the questions, it becomes clear that the questions were, of course, not a philologist, but a person who had not gone far in terms of literacy and considerations. We will not answer these “questions”, everything is exhaustively explained there in the Comments ...

What eyewitnesses say

I'm from Chelyabinsk. At 9:20 somewhere in the office, a bright flash lit up the window. No one understood anything, they thought it was shorted somewhere. Minutes later (the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound) there was a roar, so that the ears were blocked. Stucco was falling from the ceiling. Everyone ran out into the street. There are no victims. Cellular communication was unavailable for 3 hours exactly. From the sound wave, the roof of one of the factories was destroyed. Now airplanes are flying in the sky, looking for a crash site.

First, let's bring astronomy back to school. And there will be answers to all questions. As an amateur astronomer, I will say that air defense is useless. It is impossible to keep track of the stones, several meters in diameter. That objects flying from the side of the Sun are invisible in the optical range, and no money is allocated for radiometry. And the fact that the sky tracking service is not funded by the state. According to the mechanics of the destruction of a meteorite, or rather a fireball, I can assure you: everything is within the normal range. Classic car. The object most likely split into 2 pieces at the time of the explosion. Plus, keep in mind that the average speed of passing an object is about 20-30 km / s. The Chelyabinsk car is similar to the Vitim car. Info on him if you're interested.

First, where is our air defense? Some kind of thing from the sky is hitting right across the city. Secondly, what are our astronomers doing, where did they look, or did this object appear right in our atmosphere in the morning? Thirdly, where are the warning systems, or the Ministry of Emergency Situations only stating the facts and sorting out the consequences? And then the fact itself is narrower, but was it a meteorite or a comet, as stated by the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Quote from RBC news: “... said astronomer, head of the department of non-stationary stars and stellar spectroscopy of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Science Nikolai Chugai “I'm not sure if it's a meteor shower”...»

Explain to me what people do in this institute if they are not sure what it is and did not know anything about it at all?

Let's go further: a meteorite - two parallel stripes are clearly visible in the photo and video ... I'm not very good at physics, but as far as I know, in order to fly in parallel, objects must have the same size, the same density and the same weight, at least. If the object splits into two parts, then the trajectories still change. Then we see a flash, an increase in the smoke cloud and one line that begins to break ... And to top it off, a trail of white smoke ...

Can anyone answer all these questions for me?

Our version(Alexey Kungurov, Chelyabinsk)

The very moment of the meteorite's entry into the atmosphere at 9:20 was not seen. At that time, my wife and I were lucky enough to go into the new Magnit supermarket built in Chelyabinsk (which is located on Brothers Kashirin Street). And at the moment when we paid at the cash desk, there was a strong explosion in the street, then a series of small pops. The first impression was that a gas cylinder had exploded near the building. Two minutes later we were already on the street and began to question the workers finishing the outer facade of the building (on a manipulator with a basket).

According to the worker, what happened was very reminiscent of a comet, the radiance was so strong that start to burn your face(pay attention to this fact), and he hid behind the arm of the manipulator. A little later, explosions were heard. There was no other explanation for the first time. It took us 10 minutes to get home and the first thing we noticed was the lack of cell service. Communication interruptions continued for about 3 hours. Approximately the epicenter of the cloud in the sky fell on the southern part of Chelyabinsk in the area just south of the regional hospital.

At home, everyone woke up at us (even those who usually sleep until 10-11 o'clock), the children had a slight panic, as the house was shaking very sensitively, then they heard a strong explosion, but there is no explanation for this. Later we had to visit the kindergarten to pick up our niece. One glass cracked in it (the distance is about 10 km from the alleged epicenter of the explosion) and a lot of traveling around the city.

The paradox was as follows: the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the City Government promptly responded to the situation, recommended picking up children from schools and kindergartens, explained the nature of the incident and recommended everyone to stay at home. Employers fired people from work. But all this had an unpredictable effect: a large number of cars on the streets dramatically increased the number of accidents. There was general nervousness among the people.

On the local radio, they began to voice calls and SMS from people and comment on events. The information voiced by the radio station (if you do not move around the city and do not see the situation with your own eyes) was very reminiscent of a report from a theater of operations or a completely bombed city. I understand the condition of doctors and other people who could not leave their jobs and were forced to listen to the stream such information.

If you do not specifically look for places where the glass was knocked out, then nothing reminded of the recent incident. The only serious destruction in the city is the collapsed roof of the Zinc Plant (finished products workshop), broken shop windows, individual windows in schools, YurSU (South Ural State University) and shops, broken frames and glass in houses. The paradox lies in the fact that, on the one hand, glass was broken at a distance of up to 30 kilometers, and at the same time there were entire blocks of houses where not a single glass was broken (even in the epicenter, more precisely, in the projection of the epicenter on the ground, because the explosion was high).

This is the general situation in Chelyabinsk.

You can generally sum up the event (my version).

There are many versions of the incident and many explanations for what happened. For example, NASA determined the yield of the explosion to 500 kilotons, and the height of the explosion - from 18 to 24 km. The fact that scientists can be wrong, we will now see for you. In the NASA version, the size of the meteorite is determined in 17 meters, and the weight is in 10 thousand tons. Let's check this information: if we assume that it had a shape close to a ball with a diameter of 17 meters, then its volume will be about 2572 cubic meters; and if it consisted of iron, then it will weigh more 20,000 tons, and if from granite, then about 6680 tons! This, as you understand, is significantly different from what NASA scientists have stated.

Second mistake scientists - this is the definition of the height of the explosion - over 19 km. If you look at various graphs of the relationship between air pressure and altitude ( , , ), then at an altitude of 19-20 km, the air pressure is only 41 mm Hg, which is almost 20 times less than normal atmospheric pressure, and there are no conditions for creating a shock wave, which could cause such consequences as we observed in Chelyabinsk and the region.

Therefore, we will begin here our little investigation based on known facts and video materials. Most of the material is taken from the site. Ilya Varlamov– http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html

The passage of the meteorite was seen from Yekaterinburg, which is about 200 km from Chelyabinsk. And from this video you can roughly calculate the height of the passage of the meteorite. To do this, we will use the Bradis table and the rule of correspondence of angles and proportionality of triangles. The video shows that the meteorite began to glow at an apparent height above the truck (in the observation range in proportion to the size of the truck in front) about three truck sizes and later descended to a height of 2 trucks. The distance to the truck is about 100 meters. The height of the truck trailer is 2.45 m. Accordingly, the apparent height of the span is 5 meters (in the projection of the truck). If the height of the apparent span is divided by the distance, then you get 0.05 (almost 3 degrees of the apparent angle of flight above the Earth). If the obtained dimensions are multiplied by 200 km, then we get the approximate height of the completion of the meteorite flight of about 10 km(excluding calculation errors and surface curvature).

The second way to calculate the height of the explosion is to calculate, taking into account the testimony of eyewitnesses (approximately 40 seconds) and the calculated values ​​\u200b\u200bof the speed of sound in air (340 meters per second), then it turns out to be approximately 14 km, which approximately fits into the previous calculations, taking into account the errors.

The flight of the Meteorite was visible and recorded from great distances: from Tyumen - 336 km, from Yekaterinburg – 200 km, from Kamensk-Uralsky – 142 km, from Orenburg – 575 km, Satka (mountainous part of the Chelyabinsk region) - 150 km, Kostanay (Kazakhstan) - 258 km.

We need to consider the meteorite itself and calculate the power of a real explosion.

There are standard calculations ( , , , ) of damaging factors of a nuclear explosion. Why do we resort to them? For one reason - we do not have non-nuclear explosives to produce an explosion of commensurate power (500 kilotons).

The main factor influencing the calculations is that we have an explosion height of about 10-15 km. As a result, a large shock wave could not form (the pressure did not exceed 0.1 bar), that is, according to the generally accepted classification, Chelyabinsk was not even destroyed by the Zone of Weak Destruction. And the power of the explosion must be increased at times.

It is possible to indirectly estimate the strength of the explosion from information received from the builder (direct witness). He claimed that he was badly baked by the radiation. It can be assumed that if the radiation lasted a few more seconds and (or) the worker did not hide, then he would receive a burn of 1 degree, which corresponds to the power of the explosion at least 1 megaton on distance 24 km.

Preliminary conclusions

We are fully aware that the information available to us cannot claim to be complete and reliable. Nevertheless, even from it one can draw quite reasonable and reasonable conclusions: over Chelyabinsk an alien spaceship was destroyed. That is why the blast wave was so weak, and that is why very large forces of the army, police and FSB were thrown in search of any remains of this ship.

To the question of how and by whom this ship was destroyed, the official bodies and the media, most likely, will not be able to answer. After all, our civilization is still at an embryonic level both in the field of technology and in the field of the use of real knowledge. Therefore, we will not be able to detect and deal with such objects for a long time. However, happened fact indicates that there are ways to influence such unusual objects for us. We simply do not yet imagine the true possibilities of the human Mind, and therefore we naively believe that such a thing is impossible.

But back in 2009, an event occurred that was almost equal in “impossibility” to the incident in Chelyabinsk. Then a huge Black Pyramid(black not in terms of the color of the pyramid itself, but in terms of belonging to the black hierarchy of its passengers). This pyramid was destroyed and it was destroyed by one person - Nikolai Levashov (he spoke about this at his seminar held in Moscow in March 2010. See the answer to question N7 of the third day of the Seminar).

Later academic Nikolai Levashov installed an energy dome over Russia, which also performs the functions of protecting the planet from uninvited guests.

Thus, we consider this issue already clarified enough, because those in power will never tell us the truth anyway. And the fabrications of various journalists and philologists will be mainly of a political nature, and will have nothing to do with the truth.

Three months ago, on February 15, a fireball flew over Chelyabinsk, leaving a thick white trail and a number of mysteries. Firstly, the trail itself, absolutely identical to the reverse (condensation) trail of a jet aircraft or rocket, testified more to its technogenic origin than to extraterrestrial. Secondly, the brightest ball of fire that broke out behind the flying fireball, which had split in two before this, also did not receive any explanation from scientists. Thirdly, at the end of the trajectory, large debris should have fallen to the ground, leaving a crater, but this did not happen. Although with large meteorites this, in principle, cannot be.

Since scientists refuse to give reasonable answers to these three questions, society itself is looking for a clue to the phenomenon. Currently, there are three versions of the technogenic origin of the Chelyabinsk celestial phenomenon: unsuccessful rocket tests, emergency re-entry into the atmosphere of a spacecraft and UFOs.
We will not consider the UFO option, because it makes no sense to talk about something that cannot be identified, therefore, does not exist as an objective reality. The test version of the hypersonic missile was presented in the NG issue of 04/09/2013 ("The secret of the Chelyabinsk meteorite revealed?"). No one has convincingly refuted the version, mostly statements were made that this was the author's fantasy. But the author did not claim that this was true. The version is, to a certain extent, a fantasy, but based on the laws of physics and modern achievements in technology and technology. And if the prototype of the Russian hypersonic missile, unlike the American one, is not presented to the general public, this does not mean that it cannot hypothetically exist.
Now we should consider the second version of the technogenic origin of the Chelyabinsk fireball - the accident of the spacecraft. If you like, this is the author's fantasy, but it is based on real events recorded and confirmed by the most serious scientific and authorized state structures.
Chronicle of the disaster
A bright flash and subsequent shock wave hit Chelyabinsk at about 9 am. And now the original, only greatly reduced timekeeping to the nearest second, compiled by specialists from the American National Space Agency (NASA). Local time. Mach number - in a simplified form is equal to the speed of sound. That is, Mach 20 is at least 6 km / s.
8:44:09 - The conditional entry point of the spacecraft into the dense layers of the atmosphere. Conventionally, it is considered that the entrance occurs when descending to a height of 120 km. Friction against the air begins to heat the leading edges of the spacecraft. The temperature typically rises gradually to 1400 degrees Celsius over the next 6 minutes.
8:50:53 - The spacecraft enters a ten-minute period during which its body is subjected to the heaviest thermal stresses. Speed: Mach 24.1; height: 74 km.
8:52:00 - The temperature at this point usually reaches 1450 degrees Celsius.
08:53:26 - Speed: Mach 23; height: 70.6 km. At this point, the temperature begins to exceed 1540 degrees.
08:53:46 - Speed: Mach 22.8; height: 70.2 km. The plasma surrounding the spacecraft suddenly increases the brightness of its glow, a strong electrical discharge occurs in the bright gas plume of the spacecraft. In the next 23 seconds, a similar phenomenon will occur four more times, which observers will note.
08:54:25 - Speed: Mach 22.5; height: 69.3 km. At this moment, observers note a bright flash.
8:55:00 - Approximately 11 minutes after the spacecraft enters the dense layers of the atmosphere, heating usually reaches 1650 degrees.
08:55:32 - Speed: Mach 21.8; height: 68 km.
08:56:45 - Speed: Mach 20.9; height: 66.8 km.
08:58:20 - Speed: Mach 19.5; height: 64 km.
09:00:18 - Ground-based footage shows the object breaking apart at this point.
9:05 am - Residents report a strong explosion sound and shock wave.
The accident occurred at a speed of 20,000 km / h, at an altitude of about 63 km. Local residents observed a white streak left in the sky by a spacecraft. At the same time, it was visible that it fell into two parts.
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Isn't it a very accurate description of the Chelyabinsk phenomenon? Although in fact the local time is indicated for the East Coast of the United States, and the timing refers to February 1, 2003 and consistently describes the Columbia shuttle disaster. If we compare the videos made in Chelyabinsk and from the territory of Texas, the coincidence of the tracks in the sky is simply amazing. Especially from the moment when both space objects fall apart in two. There is a direct analogy between them.
There is a direct analogue of the flash (explosion) behind the Chelyabinsk object. These are videos and official NASA reports of the loss of another shuttle, the Challenger, on January 28, 1986. It is believed that it exploded at the 74th second of flight. In fact, the ship did not explode. The mistake was the fault of the media, which made the first impressions of the incident absolute.
When the Challenger took off, the following happened. The right solid propellant booster broke away from the giant fuel tank, to which the shuttle was also attached. Inside the tank, a thick partition divided the volume in half. One half contained liquefied hydrogen, the other half contained liquefied oxygen. That is, fuel and an oxidizer, without which the fuel will not burn.
The broken accelerator breaks through the tank, a huge cloud of hydrogen and oxygen breaks out. Mixed, they form an explosive mixture that flares up, forming a ball of fire with a diameter of more than a kilometer. This flash is taken by the audience for an explosion. But the Challenger is still intact and continues to take off at Mach 2. However, it is uncontrollable, it turns sideways, and dynamic overloads lead to destruction. Everything happens in less than a second. The shuttle's tail and wings are torn off, it falls apart into two parts - a manned compartment with astronauts inside and an engine compartment. From a height of 13.8 km, they fall into the sea and break on the water surface.
When watching the Chelyabinsk videos in slow motion, you can see how the reverse trail of a flying object suddenly swells up in a huge white cloud, and then it flares up with bright red fire. Everything happens exactly the same as in the Challenger disaster. At the same time, the object that fell apart in two continues to fly on the same course towards the cities of Zlatoust and Miass.
There are no traces left
Now it's time to ask a question about the fallen debris and the crater formed during this. After the Columbia disaster, 84,000 wreckage and small particles of the ship were collected in several states. They lay in a strip 150 km long and 16 to 35 km wide. However, the estimated landing weight of Columbia is 84.4 tons. And, for example, the mass of the Progress-M-12M automatic cargo spacecraft, which crashed during launch on August 24, 2011, is only 7 tons.
When, due to malfunctions, the Progress-M-12M with the third stage of the Proton launch vehicle did not enter the calculated orbit, it was immediately announced that their fragments had fallen in the Altai Territory. Victims immediately appeared demanding monetary compensation, and local authorities announced an environmental disaster. However, after three weeks of intensive search work, far from the alleged impact site in the Altai Mountains, only a piece of thin aluminum was found with inscriptions indicating that it was a food ration package. The surviving batch number made it possible to establish that these were the remains of the cargo of the same Progress-M-12M. On this, the search was stopped due to complete futility.
The conclusion suggests itself: a spacecraft weighing less than 10 tons, entering the Earth's atmosphere in an uncontrolled mode, can burn out without a trace. There will be no falling debris, no impact craters. As it happened with the Chelyabinsk facility. He, having broken, flew away towards the Southern Urals to the cities of Miass and Zlatoust, but they did not see him there, did not hear him and searched in vain. Searched, by the way, not only numerous ground groups, but also helicopters. Three - from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and as many as five - from the FSB, apparently, promptly transferred from the border with Kazakhstan. The next day, it was announced that no fragments of the meteorite had been found, and the FSB helicopters no longer flickered in the sky.
It is doubtful that the security service of the state is so preoccupied with some stones from the sky. But if the Chelyabinsk facility had a man-made origin, it is the direct responsibility of the FSB to investigate this circumstance. And then you never know what will fly to Russia with an incomprehensible purpose. It is possible that the FSB officers were initially focused on searching for the remains of the spacecraft and successfully completed their mission without unnecessary informational noise. In this case, honor and praise to them!
Looking for something that doesn't exist
On March 21, at a seminar at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) Dmitry Badyukov said that, according to the calculations of the laboratory staff, the mass of the largest fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which has not yet been found, can be up to 10 tons, and the size is several meters.
However, using the example of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite, one can see that a fragment weighing a ton and a half leaves a crater 20 meters in diameter and several meters deep. The Southern Urals is not at all such a remote place where no one would hear the roar of a blow and would not see a column of dust and steam flying up in broad daylight. Yes, and from helicopters, observers would definitely not have missed such a fresh crater against a snowy background.
Instead of a real meteorite crater, local authorities and representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations proposed a round hole in Chebarkul Lake. This polynya is located 80 km away from the precisely established flight path of the Chelyabinsk object. It is noteworthy that it is located just above the wintering pit, where fish accumulate for the winter. Judging by the remnants of silt and algae along the edges of the hole, someone managed to scratch the bottom with a net.
Scientists from Yekaterinburg picked up a dozen and a half grains of sand less than a millimeter in size on the ice of Chebarkul. After a little research, they announced that these were fragments of a meteorite - an ordinary chondrite, from the word "chondrules". Chondrules are round formations inside the stone, characteristic only for very ancient rocks 4.5 billion years old. This is the time of the formation of the solar system, including the Earth. There are no such rocks in the upper layers of the Earth. Chondrules are microscopic, then it is difficult to vouch for their extraterrestrial origin. But more often they are larger than these very grains of sand, visible to the naked eye, and then the meteorite origin of the substance is beyond doubt. Unfortunately, scientists still have not bothered to put on the Internet high-quality images of meteorite sections with clearly distinguishable chondrules and corresponding comments.
Much more similar to meteorites were small stone fragments, immediately nicknamed "peas" for their small size. The only thing that confuses is the cracks in them. It is believed that there can be no voids and cracks in meteorites; they are torn apart along these cracks in flight. Another oddity: all the "peas" fell out only in a few places, rather small spots, extremely well timed to the road and the clearing near two neighboring villages - Yemanzhelinsky and Deputatsky.
clash
The fragments fell out in the middle of the trajectory of a celestial object, but none of them reached the final point of the flight. This contradiction, like a number of others, is removed by only one assumption - there were two space objects. The first is an unknown spacecraft weighing several tons, the second is a stone meteorite weighing several tens of kilograms. And this meteorite knocked the spacecraft out of orbit, pushed it into the earth's atmosphere.
The collision happened in space. A meteorite moving in the same direction caught up with the spacecraft, crashed into it, and then they flew together, gradually descending. In the earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft began to collapse and finally broke into pieces. Two large fragments continued horizontal flight in the same direction, quickly burning up in the atmosphere. And the meteorite, which collapsed to small fragments, continued to move along its trajectory to the Earth, falling out in spots of “peas” in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe villages of Yemanzhelinskoye and Deputatsky.
This version fully answers all uncomfortable questions and removes all contradictions. Including the main thing: the technogenic trace of a meteoroid in the sky and the fallout of cosmic chondrites in the middle of its trajectory. As for the round hole on the ice of Lake Chebarkul, let's leave it to the discretion of the local authorities, who probably also want to attract more tourists. However, the ice on the lake will soon melt completely, and not just off the coast ...
The question is quite natural: what kind of spacecraft was shot down by a meteorite over the Urals? It's hard to answer specifically. More than five thousand non-working satellites revolve around the Earth. Let's add to them upper stages and stages of launch vehicles, the number of which is probably in the hundreds. Some gradually de-orbit and burn out, but new ones are added to them that have exhausted their resources. They are already so close that they periodically collide with each other. Among these satellites there are a considerable number of heavy ones, weighing several tons. Some have been circling the Earth for 20-30 years, or even more.
This space debris is being monitored. However, Russia is seriously inferior to the United States in this respect. After the complete loss of the entire space fleet - more than 20 ships that monitored the sky around the clock from different points of the World Ocean, Roskosmos can even observe its own spacecraft only from the territory of Russia. The Aerospace Defense Forces of the Russian Federation have their own surveillance system, but they never share information. Perhaps the US military and NASA, who are more closely monitoring space, could shed some light on this issue. But they also prefer not to disclose such information, so as not to disclose their capabilities.
But sometimes Americans demonstrate their capabilities. For example, when Roskosmos experts smartly report that the spacecraft did not enter the calculated orbit, but communication is being established. Here the Americans declare that the apparatus has already replenished the "Pacific" grouping. And they turn out to be right.
The chances of a random meteorite hitting one of the five thousand dead satellites are very high, as well as several hundred working ones. For almost 60 years of human space exploration, such incidents have happened, just not on such a large scale. More recently, on April 30, a small meteorite pierced the solar panel of the International Space Station. "It's a good thing he didn't hit the corpus," Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted, posting a picture of the perforated battery on Twitter.
Uncomfortable version
The version of the collision of the spacecraft and the meteorite logically puts everything in its place, satisfying both the supporters of the technogenic nature of the Chelyabinsk phenomenon and the scientific community, who enthusiastically explored black peas of extraterrestrial origin. Although scientists will probably be offended that large fragments will never be found.
The lobbyists of the system of protecting the Earth from space danger worth tens of billions of rubles will be much more disappointed. The whole world was invited as a partner, primarily the United States. But the United States, where only two telescopes quite successfully track all potentially dangerous celestial bodies, considered the additional cost of contemplating the sky unnecessary. It is clear that domestic lobbyists of the protection system will not calm down in the struggle for budget money, and for them the Chelyabinsk phenomenon with knocking out window frames is a strong argument. If we accept the version about the collision of a small meteorite with a large artificial satellite, the argument will disappear. And it turns out that it is necessary to save the Earth from space debris. And then the lobbyists of Roskosmos enterprises will revive.
The local Chelyabinsk authorities will not like this version either. On February 15, already three hours after the air wave, they announced the amount of damage - 1 billion rubles, but after a month and a half they managed to document and "estimate" only 490 million rubles. The real costs of compensation to citizens and repair work are unknown.
On the other hand, the dream of attracting multimillion-dollar masses of tourists is gaining additional breath. Local residents will also like it, having gained kilograms of "peas" of cosmic origin, as well as tons of slag and stones.
I would like to hear the arguments of those who do not agree with the presented version. Naturally, with the answers to the three questions asked at the beginning of the article. Because an objection like "it's just fantasy" only demonstrates scientific impotence.
However, scientists are probably busy raising funds for summer expeditions to search for large fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. They can be understood. Tens of thousands of Uralians spend their summer holidays on the lakes of the Southern Urals: the sun is like in the Crimea, clear water is like in Baikal, only warm, clean taiga air, fishing, berries, mushrooms. Now here are the meteorites. Paradise, true paradise! If not for the mosquitoes...