2012DA14.
Well I didn’t see it. Well it was briefly in my scope but the gap in the clouds was so short that I didn’t get a chance to confirm which of the faint white dots was the one. Oh well. That’s astronomy.
But what a day. The Urals meteorite was incredible and an amazing cosmic coincidence. Really demonstrated the way the cosmos reaches out and gives us a shake sometimes. A future blog post on the full story will follow.
Cosmic Jumper. Me on the BBC.
I was fortunate to be able to give an interview for BBC World News alongside Cosmologist Marcus Chown. Hope you enjoy it and no comments about my jumper!
It was extraordinary to have that second missile – talk about catching everyone looking the other way. Scary, too.