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[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html]More Here[/url]
Those videos are crazy as hell. Fortunately, nobody has so far been confirmed injured or killed.
EDIT: It appears reports have been revised, and now the number of injured is estimated in the '[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116]hundreds[/url].'
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I'm really enjoying the mixed reporting here: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html[/url] [quote]The asteroid,[u] which is not connected to the Russian meteor[/u], is not expected to hit any of the communications satellites it will pass on its trajectory, he said.[/quote] [url]http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/Urals-meteorite-no-radiation-around-impact-crater/[/url] [quote]Astronomers at the Pulkovo Observatory outside St Petersburg say [u]they believe the meteorite that crashed into the South Urals this morning was linked to the approach of the 2012DA14 asteroid[/u], which is to make a close shave with the Earth at a distance of just 27,000 kilometers tonight.[/quote]