Associated Press, February 15, 2013
MOSCOW – Russian officials say a meteorite has fallen in the Chelyabinsk region some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow.
A spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Vadim Kolesnikov, said the Friday morning fall caused a blast that broke windows.
There were no immediate confirmed reports of injuries, but Russian news agencies cited unnamed sources as saying several people were injured at a school in a thinly populated part of the region, which is on the eastern edge of the Ural Mountains.
WARNING: This video is very loud.
Read Phil Plait’s post on the event. He’s adding updates as they develop.
I recommend warning readers that a video contains LOUD noises, if you are going to post with no other information…
Thanks James. We’ll do that.
I fully support the effort of these gifted folks that make up this organization and the goal of launching a telescope to map and track all these potentially lethal meteorites in the inner solar system. We have the technology. Why not use it?
Yes, You are right, we need to watch to the sky more and more.
p.s. I live in Moscow. My co-woker is working in Chelyzbinsk, and when he went to his office he fall down on the ground after blast wave… He said, that he remember this day all of his life…