Did I see the Chelyabinsk meteor?

by natevw

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

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Via @badastronomer via @vrubaI came across a great map of the asteroid contrail (train) caught on weather satellite:

http://attivissimo.blogspot.ch/2013/02/russian-meteor-path-plotted-in-google.html

It shows that yes, the asteroid was heading SW, but to my (extremely naïve) eye it seems a bit too low an inclination to have come over the pole from my western hemisphere — certainly not straight over, but (if the 0520 GMT time is actually correct) maybe there's still a chance?

created Feb. 15, 2013, 5:36 p.m.

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