meteorific!!

well darn it, as if quakes and tsunamis aren't enough for us earthlings to ponder upon, we'll be hearing more of other dastardly natural disasters like meteor crashes from now on!

seriously?? like seriously? amidst our own merry making here in these past few days of the chinese lunar new year, we've actually had (speaking 'we' in terms of us as a universal race of humans) an asteroid crashing into our atmosphere!! shot through the layers above us and across somewhere Russia, letting of some debris all over part of Russia, crashing windows with its SONIC WAVE (gulp!) and a tiny bit reportedly even landing in one of its frozen lakes there. like wow. these are stuffs of hollywood endeavours and flicks like transformers and armageddon even come to mind!!! =.="

but seriously. now we're talking sonic waves even. what happened to plain old nuclear radiation?
this is some important bit of history worthy of being taken noted of, so here goes, quoting reports from the CNN app:
* "4,000 buildings, mostly apartment blocks, were damaged and 200,000 square kilometers of glass were broken"
* witnesses reported of "a blinding flash lasting several seconds, which made him want to shut his eyes. the light shone "like 10 suns" .. "no exaggeration""
* "the meteor was a once-in-a-century event, NASA officials said, describing it as a "tiny asteroid" (O.o)
* "estimated amount of energy released in the meteor's explosion at nearly 500 kilotons. by comparison, the nuclear bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 released an estimated 15 kilotons of energy" (O.o)
* "the whole event, from the meteor's atmospheric entry to its disintegration in the air above central Russia, took 32.5 seconds".


overwhelmed, that's what i am. this is crazy stuff.
and if that was not enough to make me sit up, stare and blink my eyes a few times, here's another bit of news also on meteors:

* "in what astronomers said was an unrelated coincidence, a larger asteroid, called 2012 DA14, passes relatively close to Earth around 2:24 p.m. ET Friday."
* quoting from an article by 'The Voice of Russia': "Asteroid 2012 DA14 safely passes over Earth, 17,500 miles (27,700km) above Indonesia."

Indonesia? O.o
this 'larger' asteroid was quoted as "as large as an Olympic swimming pool" - and "at a distance of just 27,700km - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size."


oh my ... it could've been easily, Just.Like.That.
in not more than even a mere minute . . .
O.o

better have a great year ahead, folks!



another itch scratched...