A meteorite has exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk today. Here's a report from Russia Today.
Meteorite hits Russian Urals: Fireball explosion wreaks havoc, over 500 injured (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
By Russia Today, 15 February 2013.
Meteorite hits Russian Urals: Fireball explosion wreaks havoc, over 500 injured (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
By Russia Today, 15 February 2013.
Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds are seeking medical attention for minor injuries.
Eyewitness accounts of the meteorite phenomenon, handpicked by RT.
Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk. The third site was found some 80 kilometres further to the northwest, near the town of Zlatoust. One of the fragments that struck near Chebarkul left a crater six meters in diameter.
Service members from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal.
Russian space agency Roskosmos has confirmed the object that crashed in the Chelyabinsk region is a meteorite:
“According to preliminary estimates, this space object is of non-technogenic origin and qualifies as a meteorite. It was moving at a low trajectory with a speed of about 30 km/s.”
According to estimates by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the space object weighed about 10 tons before entering Earth’s atmosphere.
As of 15:00 Moscow time, 725 people have sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk alone because of the disaster, 112 of whom have been hospitalized, of them two in heavy condition. Among the injured there are 159 children, Emergency ministry reported…
The trail of a falling object is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city
of Chelyabinsk, on February 15, 2013.
Local zinc factory was damaged the severest, some of its walls collapsing.
Screenshot from YouTube user Gregor Grimm
Screenshot from YouTube user Gregor Grimm
Still from YouTube video/fed potapow
Still from YouTube video/fed potapow
Still from YouTube video/fed potapow
Still from YouTube video/fed potapow
Map showing location of Chelyabinsk
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