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Did I see the Chelyabinsk meteor?

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last posted Feb. 28, 2013, 5:58 p.m.

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What time did the asteroid strike? I googled "time in Chelyabinsk" — 14 hours ahead of my time. Most of the reports (all paraphrased from each other) talk of the asteroid at 9:20 am local time.

So 9.25 - 14 = -4.75, add 24 to both sides and that's 19.25 — 7:20pm my time. Well bummer. Maybe I did the math wrong? What were both the times in GMT?

That got more interesting. News reports were giving, parenthetically, two different GMT times for 9:20am local:

  • chelyabinsk 0520 GMT — about 59,900 results
  • chelyabinsk 0320 GMT — about 95,700 results

9pm PST is 0500 GMT, so if the 0520 is right we could have something.

Moscow time is 2 hours behind Chelyabinsk's time zone. So if the news happened at 0520 GMT the time at, say, a news agency in Moscow would have been 9:20am!

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