Blinding flash and a vigorous development of the shock wave, a meteor shine the western sky Friday and force and a bomb blast, a city of window and spreading panic, more than 1000 people were injured 10000 yuan.
NASA estimate meteor only a bus the size and weight of an estimated 7000 tons, the production of ball is huge. Surprise chelyabinsk city residents of shooting video shows the flow condensation camber on the horizon, after sunrise, from the end of the world science fiction movie like things.
Occurs in more than a century record's largest meteors strike hours earlier in within 150 feet through about 17000 miles (28000 kilometers) of asteroid. The European space agency said, experts already make sure there is a connection between asteroids and Russia meteor - just cosmic coincidence.
Western more shooting stars into the earth's atmosphere in the morning local time about 9 to points (the United States eastern standard time 10 o 'clock in the afternoon and points Thursday) in hypersonic at least 33000 miles (54000 kilometers), and crushing piece about 30 - fifty kilometers (and to 32 miles), the Russian academy of sciences, said. NASA estimates, the speed is about 40000 miles, about 12 to 15 kilometers high explosive, release 300 to 500000 tons of energy and left a 300 miles long.
Sergei Hametov said: "there is panic. People don't know what happened," chelyabinsk, Moscow about 1500 km (930 miles) in the ural mountains.
"We see a large outbreak of light, and then go outside to see what it is, we heard a very loud, thundering sound," he told the Associated Press by telephone.
An estimated 100000 square meters (more than 100 square feet) of glass explosive shock wave, according to the municipal government officials say, 3000 in chelyabinsk buildings were damaged. Zinc factory, part of the roof collapse.
The ministry says, about 1100 people shock wave, and after hospitalization to seek medical attention. Glass splash the damage, officials say.
Scientists estimate meteor release the Hiroshima bomb than twenty times, more powerful, although the space rock explosion happened in a higher altitude. Amy's step for policy, NASA's jet propulsion laboratory, said scientists as a shielding atmosphere.
Shock wave may have broke the window, but the atmosphere absorbs most of the energy, "she said.
The emergency ministry spokesman vladimir Purgin said, many of the wounded were cut, because they flocked to the Windows, looking is what reason creates the light and the brightness of the moment than the sun strong flash.
In any space debris hitting any death or there is no word.
President vladimir putin called the emergency ministry minister, and ordered the immediate repair. "We need to consider how to help people, and immediately to do so," he said.
Some meteorite fragments fall outside the town of cutting Baltimore kool reservoir, the ministry of the interior area office said. The accident left a 8 meters (26 feet) of crater on the ice.
Just in chelyabinsk school began to teach when meteor explosion, and officials say 258 children in those who were hurt. Amateur video display, a teacher class said, as a powerful shock wave touch the room.
, the high school student's nose is bloody, the upper lip, covered with a bandage, leaf cajal lina Melikhova said, she is in her geography class, when a bright flash outside.
"Flash light, nothing happened about 3 minutes, then we get to outdoor... the door is made of glass, the shock wave, hit us," she said.
Russian television ran a city sports competition, athletes compete in a huge window glass pieces, like the video. Some of them was still bleeding.
Other video display, a long glass pieces crashed into building a nearby factory workers and huge door blow away the shock wave.
Meteor will usually cause considerable sonic boom, because they have gone so far faster than the speed of sound, when they enter the atmosphere. However, the size of the released on Friday damage is very rare.
"I'm going to check what is flashing in the sky, recalls:" : residents marat safin Lobkovsky. "Then, the window glass shattered, bounce me, my beard was cut open, but not deep. They repair me, now."
Another of the residents, Valya card firm cove, said in his local some older women began to cry, the world over.
Exposure residents without sweat as temperatures in the city's many broken Windows, is expected to dip to minus twenty degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) for the night. The region's governor put forward a request any worker who know how to repair the Windows.
Russian # label meteorites rapid impact high to Twitter trend.
"Oh, I just woke up, because my bed started to shake. The whole house!" Lisa Malkova o chirps.
Social media and video dashboard camera, Russia corrupt police or dispute after has the accident under the pressure of the installation in the car, in be flooded.
Dramatic events caused a series of prominent Russia's reaction.
Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev (Dmitry Medvedev), in the Siberian city KeLaSiNuoYaErSiKe economic BBS on speech, said meteors may be the symbol of the BBS, said, "not only economy is weak, but the whole earth."
A nationalist leader vladimir, advertising, base, he noticed that his strong statement accusing the americans.
"This is not a meteor. This is testing a new weapon of americans," RIA Novosti news agency quoted him as saying.
Deputy prime minister his protege dmitry LuoGeJin said, this incident shows that it is necessary to develop a system, from space falling interception object is the world's leading power.
"At present, whether we still americans have such technology," he said, to shoot down the meteor or asteroids according to the interfax news agency.
Meteoroid is small pieces of space debris - usually a comet or asteroid part - this is the collision process of the earth. They become meteor into the earth's atmosphere
 



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