Near Earth Asteroid fragments enter Earths atmosphere, exploding over central Russia causing 500-1,000 persons to be injured. Link below is to Wall Street Journal article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 97722.html

plenty of home videos recording the event



Thanks to "Hadriano10i" For this upload to YT

Published on Feb 15, 2013
Giant Meteor Explodes Over Russia meteorite may be part of Giant Asteroid that nearly Collided with earth Meteor shower reported in eastern Russia | Meteorite Crash In Russia Meteor Showers Russia Crash Ural Mountains Sparks UFO Fears | A powerful blast rocked the Russian region of the Urals early on Friday with bright objects, identified as possible meteorites, falling from the sky, emergency officials said. | "It was definitely not a plane," an emergency official told Reuters, without elaborating. "We are gathering the bits of information and have no data on the casualties so far." | No one was hurt in a meteor shower, an emergency official told RIA-Novosti. Local residents said they witnessed burning objects in the sky of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions.

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Do not go gentle into that good night.
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I didn't realize that meteors exploded in the atmosphere. I always thought they crashed into the earth causing a crater. That article said that the shock wave set off car alarms, blew in doors, and smashed glass windows which caused so many injuries, mostly for cuts from flying glass.

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Maybe if they're too big or faster they don't disintegrate as well before hitting our atmosphere. I've heard a lot do bust apart before they get us though. Ugh are we doomed.