Volume 2013 Issue No.2, Dt 16 February 2013
Time: 7h40m P.M.
Time: 7h40m P.M.
Astronomy and Space Events happenings of
Second Fortnight of February 2013
Second Fortnight of February 2013
by
Professor Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
(Retd. Prof of Physics, SU, Kolhapur), 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P.O. Visakhapatnam-530002
Mobile. No. 9491902867
ABSTRACT
The event that occurred on the 00h55m AM of 16 February 2013 was indeed a marvellous one. Asteroid 2012 DA14 closest distance to Earth is amazing. This was accompanied by a Meteorite fall in Russsia and unseasonal rains and Gravity Waves phenomenon in the India subcontinent. The observation of Gravity waves moving from South to North in Visakhapatnam on Saturday 16 February 2013, around 12h30m PM cannot be an isolated occurrence. The Earth Tremor of Kashmir is an added fourth feature of the unfortunate events. Structured Gravity Waves a new find of the present author that would lead to extensive research and study. The movement of Gravity Waves across the India Nation from South to North as well from North to South is phenomenal.
INTRODUCTION
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Meteorite
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Asteroid 2012 DA14
A threesum phenomenon of an Asteroid, a streak of a small fiery fragment of a possible cometary material in Russia and the unusual rains of Andhra Pradesh have thought by the present author to have an intimate relation. The fourth feature is the Earth Tremor in Kashmir. They are agumented by movement of Gravity Waves across the India Nation from South to North as well from North to South. An Earthquake occurrence on Sunday 17 February 2013 morning, possibly accompanied by previous tremors on earlier days in Kashmir has a role to play in the events.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Meteorite
People stand near an eight meter hole, reportedly the site of a meteorite fall, in the ice of the frozen Chebarkul lake near the town of Chebarkul about outside of Chelyabinsk, Urals, Russia February 15. 2013. Terrified Russians fell to their knees and prayed for deliverance while the explosion, which packed the power of an atomic bomb, set off a shock wave that peeled off roofs, shattered plate glass windows, and terrorized Chelyabinsk, a city of 1 million some 930 miles east of Moscow. The meteor, estimated to weigh about 10 tons, pierced the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 33,000 mph and shot across the sky about 9:20 a.m. local time, leaving a thick white contrail in its wake, the Russian Academy of Science said. Meteor have been about 50 feet wide and weighed 7,700 tons, entering the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph. At 4:40 p.m. ET: NASA managers, at a teleconference, say the meteor that broke up over Russia had the force of a 300-kiloton bomb, and exploded 12 to 15 miles above the ground. At 3:25 p.m. ET: NASA has now posted a message saying, "The trajectory of the Russian meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object. From the videos that came from Chelyabinsk, they say the Russian meteor was traveling from north to south. 11:24 a.m ET: We're not absolutely sure what crashed in Russia, the Russians are the ones calling it a fragmenting meteor, but most scientists say the Russian impact and the passing asteroid are not related. We are looking for info on the direction from which the objects came in Russia. In the town of Chebarkul, 80 kilometres west of Chelyabinsk city, divers explored the bottom of an ice-crusted lake looking for meteor fragments believed to have fallen there, leaving a six metre wide hole. Valery Fomichov said he had been out for a run when the meteor streaked across the sky shortly after sunrise.
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Meteorite Crater in Russia
Meteorite flight Amazing over Russia
Photos of the Meteorite flight over Russia.
A driver on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan to Chelyabinsk, Russia, captured a meteorite crashing to earth, using a dashboard camera, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains, causing sharp explosions. 10:52 a.m. ET: The European Space Agency has posted an image of the asteroid about seven hours before closest approach to Earth. The picture is a negative, so it shows the stars as black dots on a white background.
Asteroid 2012 DA14's trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north. The asteroid, ESA says, is the straight-line streak running across the top center of the frame."2:25: p.m. ET: This is the moment of closest approach. Asteroid 2012 DA14 has just now come with 17,220 miles of Earth, flying from south to north in a path that brings it closer than the geosynchronous satellites we use for communications and many weather observations. NASA's Near Earth Objects Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California actually was able to calculate the asteroid's path almost a year ago, and has been reassuring people since then that there have been no major changes. Remember that Earth is a bit more than 7,900 miles in diameter, so the asteroid clearly missed by a fair amount. But when you remember that the moon is 239,000 miles away, 17,220 miles don't feel like a lot to astronomers. Astronomers we've spoken with say they're pretty sure the asteroid, called 2012 DA14, is solid, and not shedding pieces. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will miss the Earth today, scientists assure us, but it won't miss by much. At 2:25 p.m. ET it is expected to pass 17,220 miles from us. DA14 passed within 27,650 Km of Earth at 1924 GMT and was visible with the aid of binoculars or a small telescope from much of the eastern hemisphere, 7.8 Km per second.
They're separate pieces of space debris. NASA scientists said the object was a tiny asteroid that released 300 to 500 kilotons of energy when it exploded, which is roughly equivalent to 20 atomic bombs of the type dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An asteroid half the size of a football pitch made the closest pass ever observed from Earth on Friday, some 28,000 Km above Indonesia.
UNSEASONAL RAINS IN AP AND ELSEWHEE IN INDIA
Hyderabad, Feb 17 (IANS). The heavy unseasonal rains and hailstorm that lashed parts of Andhra Pradesh during last two days claimed 17 lives and damaged crops over more than 252,000 hectares, officials said Sunday.
The Bizzare cloud formations in
the sky of Visakhapatnam
Gravity Waves at Visakhapatnam
on 14 February 2013
Structured Gravity Waves a new find of
the author at Visakhapatnam
Gravity Waves at Visakhapatnam
on 16 February 2013
Seventeen deaths were reported from nine districts. While 12 people died struck by thunderbolts, three were killed due to electric shock, and two in house collapse. Standing crops like paddy, maize and Bengal gram were damaged over 147,986 hectares while horticulture crops like mango, chilli and vegetables were damaged in over 104,558 hectares. The crop losses were reported from 12 districts. Prakasam, Krishna and Guntur districts in south coastal Andhra bore the brunt. Unable to bear the shock, a young farmer committed suicide by consuming pesticides in his fields in Warangal district of Telangana region. The death toll in freak rains has risen to 22, even as fresh areas reeled under its impact on Sunday, this time in Coastal Andhra. The fury of the untimely downpours was such that Vinjamur (Nellore district) and Vijayawada recorded a heavy rainfall of 15 cm each, Mangalagiri and Guntur 12 cm each, Yerragondaplem 11 cm, Venkatagiri Town, Thiruvur, Vuyyur and Sattenpalli 9 cm each. Similarly, Chittoor in Rayalaseema reported a rainfall of 9 cm while Ibrahimpatnam and Suryapet in Telangana were lashed by 5 cm and 4 cm respectively. Six of the deaths were caused by lightining in Nizamabad and Guntur districts.
The unseasonal rains by hailstorms have also wreaked havoc across most of the agricultural belt with Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh being the worst hit. Incessant rains and hailstorm have damaged crops in half a dozen districts in Madhya Pradesh. During the last four days i.e 14th instant onwards the Itanagar: Incessant rains in the past few days have caused flood in at least three districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The water level of all major rivers, Lohit, Kamlang, Noa Dehing, and their tributaries are in spate.
Narsinghpur, Dewas, Ratlam, Seoni, Hoshangabad and Mandla districts suffered the most. Wheat and gram crops are the worst hit. Officials begin assessing the extent of damage on Monday.
CONCLUSIONS
The author has remarkably got pictures of the Sky during the period of Earth Tremors, Asteroid movement of a near approach to the Earth, the unseasonal rains in 17 districts of AP state in India, and singular happening of Meteorite fall in pieces over the Russian Land with several dispersals of the Meteorite pieces and shattered windows of buildings. Structured Gravity Waves a new find of the present author that would lead to extensive research and study. The fourth feature is the Earth Tremor in Kashmir. They are agumented by movement of Gravity Waves across the India Nation from South to North as well from North to South. The Gravity Waves persited only during the days of the Asteroid and Cometory appearences over and near Earth. A note given as a post comment to The Hindu News Paper on 18 Feb 2013 around 4PM couldn't be located published.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The author is deeply indebted to Late Prof . K. R. Rao D.Sc.(Madras). D.Sc.(London) of Andhra University Colleges, Waltair, without whose blessings I wouldn't have been able to study the Physics of Atmosphere in a wide spread spectrum of observations and the analysis of the data available.
REFERENCES
My earlier blogpost publications in trusciencetrutechnology.
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