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Mitchell_Porter comments on Open thread, February 15-28, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 24 February 2013 11:54:02AM 1 point [-]

The first video doesn't show a meteor, it shows trails from a plane, lit by the setting sun.

As for the second one... "The meteoroid ... is estimated to have been about the size of a desk and have had a mass of approximately 10 tonnes."

Compare to the Chelyabinsk meteor: "With an initial estimated mass of 10,000 tonnes, the Chelyabinsk meteor is the biggest object to have entered the Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, and the only meteor known to have resulted in a large number of injuries."