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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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So I roughly overlaid that weather satellite image in Google Earth.

White line extends train path, green line is simply between West Richland and Chelyabinsk:

Chelyabinsk Meteor.kmz

I can't tell my ephemerides from my apocentres and so maybe there's some orbital trickery that makes this possible. But right now we have a strike and a half against this being the same meteor:

  1. The shortest path between my neck of the woods and Chelyabinsk is nearly orthogonal to the path of the meteor train.
  2. (My meteor may, or may not, have been two hours after the Russian one.)

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