With today (Friday 15Feb13) being the day that an asteroid is supposed to pass within 17,000 miles of the Earth, apparently there were a few "splinter" asteroids that came streaking in and made an appearance over Eastern Russia.
Quote:
Meteorite falls in Russia's Chelyabinsk region; damage and casualties unclear
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.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02...ntcmp=HPBucket
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There are already videos of the meteor popping up all over You-Tube and elsewhere.
Here's a few different angles of the meteor coming in ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI
Here's a shot after the first one fell then a second one comes in and makes a big BOOM .....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LoqkQAVeSc
.... and another ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmzkoo0KqrI