On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe he's referring to the appearance of a glowing object approaching > from _behind_ the main mass that correlates in time and direction to the > ejection of fragments with its disappearance into the main mass. Yes, we're > talking delta-velocities that are outside of plausible explanation by > ballistic missiles or any other known propulsion technology. Ignoring the > out-going fragments, the most plausible explanation I can come up with for > this approach-from-behind object is modification of the source footage. An > optical artifact doesn't cut it due to the time correlation with the > expulsion of fragments unless someone can come up with a optical artifact > that would also explain those fragments.
According to this wikipedia entry the russian's posses a missle that could have conceivably intercepted the meteor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2UTTKh_Topol-M The first stage has three rocket motors developed by the Soyuz Federal Center for Dual-Use Technologies. This gives the missile a much higher acceleration than other ICBM types. It enables the missile to accelerate to the speed of 7,320 m/s and to travel a flatter trajectory to distances of up to 10,000 km harry
