Large Space Rock hits Russian town.

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(Reuters) - About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms.



Residents on their way to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 1,500 km (950 miles) east of Moscow.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215

 

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

 

[Jazzy]

Scary stuff! Amazing no one was killed.

 

[wirelessguru1]

Actually it was small(er) when compared to the much larger rock that just missed Earth a few hours ago!

 

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http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-21468116

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted as saying: Meteors are falling. Those are not meteors, it is Americans testing their new weapon.

Amazing no one was killed.

In this case, yes.

In general it's pretty unlikely to be hit by a meteor though

 

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Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists said it was the first time the stations had detected "multiple arrivals involving waves that travelled twice round the globe".

"It generated infrasound returns, after circling the globe, at distances up to (approximately) 85,000?km, and was detected at 20 infrasonic stations of the global International Monitoring System (IMS)," said researchers.

The explosive energy of the blast is estimated to be equivalent to 460 kilotons of TNT. The force of the Hiroshima bomb dropped during the Second World War was about 16 kilotons.

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/russia_meteor_shock_went_twice_around_earth