By: AnalyticalGraphics
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0zFQkYsf4
A meteor exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains on February 15, injuring more than 1,000 people and causing damage to the Chelyabinsk region.
AGI aerospace engineers have used our Systems Tool Kit (STK) software to create a simulation based on publically available information showing the trajectory of the meteor, as well as the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14, which had a close approach today. Note that the simulation uses the published Meteosat 9 images, which captured the meteor’s contrails, to help locate the approximate path of the meteor. This analysis supports and explains in 3D the announcements by NASA and ESA that the meteor was unrelated to 2012 DA 14.
To download a FREE version of the software used to create this video, click here:
http://www.agi.com/products/stk/modules/default.aspx/id/stk-free
To learn more about AGI, click here:
http://www.agi.com
In all uses, credit “Animation courtesy of Analytical Graphics, Inc.”
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