Any ideas what this is?

Natural events can and do still happen in war zones... bolide (possibly air burst)?

EDIT: Now here's a scary thought - what if a multi-megaton meteorite airburst (think Chelyabinsk) happened at an inappropriate time and location? As with the 2013 event, we may not know it was coming.
 
Trident said:
Natural events can and do still happen in war zones... bolide (possibly air burst)?

EDIT: Now here's a scary thought - what if a multi-megaton meteorite airburst (think Chelyabinsk) happened at an inappropriate time and location? As with the 2013 event, we may not know it was coming.
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One would think radars would pick it up in that case.

You're probably right here though, not much else it can be. Didn't consider it with it being a warzone and all.
 
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Trident said:
Natural events can and do still happen in war zones... bolide (possibly air burst)?

EDIT: Now here's a scary thought - what if a multi-megaton meteorite airburst (think Chelyabinsk) happened at an inappropriate time and location? As with the 2013 event, we may not know it was coming.
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2002 Eastern Mediterranean event - Wikipedia

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Forest Green said:
Trident said:
Natural events can and do still happen in war zones... bolide (possibly air burst)?

EDIT: Now here's a scary thought - what if a multi-megaton meteorite airburst (think Chelyabinsk) happened at an inappropriate time and location? As with the 2013 event, we may not know it was coming.
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One would think radars would pick it up.
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Nope. There is really very little advanced warning of potential impactors like that. There certainly isn't any sort of planetary defense radar that sees every asteroid headed our way or anything like that.

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Asteroid impact prediction - Wikipedia

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Forest Green said:
TomS said:
Nope. There is really very little advanced warning of potential impactors like that. There certainly isn't any sort of planetary defense radar that sees every asteroid headed our way or anything like that.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Asteroid impact prediction - Wikipedia

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Well, there was this.

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Yeah, but they found Didymos (by Skywatch telescope) years ago and selected it as a target for DART specifically because it's not a real impact risk.

Unfortunately, objects like the Chelyabinsk asteroid are just not easily visible. Here's some interesting reading about why it wasn't actually detected in advance, and a lot of that applies to other potential impactors.

Why Wasn't the Russian Meteor Detected Before it Entered the Atmosphere? – Watch the Skies

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TomS said:
Yeah, but they found Didymos (by Skywatch telescope) years ago and selected it as a target for DART specifically because it's not a real impact risk.

Unfortunately, objects like the Chelyabinsk asteroid are just not easily visible. Here's some interesting reading about why it wasn't actually detected in advance, and a lot of that applies to other potential impactors.

Why Wasn't the Russian Meteor Detected Before it Entered the Atmosphere? – Watch the Skies

blogs.nasa.gov blogs.nasa.gov
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MCRN stealth tech.?
 
this look more like meteor burning up in atmosphere compare to a satellite breaking into piece during reentry
 

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