Yekaterinburg is a city of millions, and is also known as "Tankograd" because of the massive military industry there, WWII forced all military production and testing over the Urals mountains to protect from German invasion. I was there and everywhere you look there are military bases and tanks on the roads, jets flying overhead, artillery pieces lined up on the trains etc. Nuclear, chemical, biological weapons testing is all done in this region. This even was surely military in nature, regardless of whether the Russian military pretends it has no idea what it was. A video showing the explosion on the ground has been found, so whatever the event was, it wasn't a meteorite fall. Michel Farmer
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 20, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > > Ben, List, > > There may be a confusion in some > reports. There is a city named > Sverdlovsk in eastern Ukraine (now > held by the separatists) but also > a Sverdlovsk Oblast (or "federal > district") far to the east in > Russia (ocated on the eastern slopes > of the Middle and North Urals and > the Western Siberian Plain): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast > This where this event took place. > > The city of Sverdlovsk there is now > called Ekaterinburg. It was the home > town of Boris Yeltsin, I believe. > > Sterling Webb > ------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Fisler [mailto:fisler...@msn.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 5:26 AM > To: Sterling K. Webb > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] MASSSIVE Russian Event Asteroid? 14NOV2014 > > Hi Stirling, > There was a similar event that took place in the Ukraine in the same > 24 hour period. I have seen the video, and there is a pulse of light before > the main event, just as the event in Russia. > > Best Regards, Ben Fisler, Phoenix > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 19, 2014, at 10:52 PM, "Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list" > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > >> Marcin, List >> >> The Sverdlovsk region is quite isolated and dense with weapon >> development centers of all kinds. In 1979, a germ warfare agent, >> aerosolized anthrax spores, escaped from a laboratory where they were >> being manufactured in weaponized form and killed an uncertain number >> of people (~100?). >> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sverdlovsk/ >> and >> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ussr-anthrax-outbreak-still-a-mystery/ >> >> "A local news site suggests there's an old chemical plant outside the >> nearby town of Rezh, the explosion of which would be consistent with >> this phenomenon, and one local on the forum of Astronomy.ru wrote >> there were also reports of the military setting off ammunition." > http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/meteor-ufo-flash-over-russia-ma > y-have-earthly-origin-n251081 >> >> Maybe they had to "sterilize" something? >> In any case, it's very unlikely this was a natural celestial event, >> I'm afraid. >> >> Sterling Webb >> ------------------------------------------ >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Meteorite-list >> [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of >> PolandMET via Meteorite-list >> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:07 AM >> To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] MASSSIVE Russian Event Asteroid? >> 14NOV2014 >> >> Hi >> We all like to have Chellyabinsk x10 ofcourse but my first feeling was >> nuclear explosion. Also there seems to be fog or dense clouds so the >> whole flash will be false. >> But yes, this could be just big explosion in factory. >> >> -----[ MARCIN CIMALA ]-----[ I.M.C.A.#3667 ]----- >> http://www.Meteoryty.pl marcin(at)meteoryty.pl >> http://www.PolandMET.com marcin(at)polandmet.com >> http://www.Gao-Guenie.com GSM: +48 (793) 567667 >> --------[ Member of Polish Meteoritical Society ]-------- >> >> >> >> >>> I think some kind of explosion, aircraft or chemical plant. Meteor >>> would be faster and move. This was something else I think. >>> >>> >>> Michael Farmer >>> >>>> On Nov 18, 2014, at 10:05 AM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list >>>> <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> List, >>>> What ever it was you will not want to miss these videos! >>>> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/11/russia-super-bolide >>>> - >>>> asteroid-strike.html >>>> >>>> Dirk Ross...Tokyo >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >>>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>>> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>>> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >>> ______________________________________________ >>> >>> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >>> Meteorite-list mailing list >>> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
