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Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

February 15 Friday 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

Chelyabinsk meteorite struck Russia without warning. February 15 Friday meteorite streaking across Chelyabinsk sky before exploding in a fireball, was brighter than the sun. A school teacher from Chelyabinsk describes a fantastic light that lit up all the classrooms. “Such kind of light doesn’t happen in life, only at the end of the world – then a trail appeared like from a plane but only ten times bigger”. Chelyabinsk residents thought the world was ending. The terrifying sight caught people heading to work yesterday. Thanks God, there were no fatalities and most of the wounded were hurt by flying glass. The opinions on Russian net differ, some thought it was UFO, some share opinion of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian LDPR leader, who traditionally blames the USA: “It’s not falling meteors. It’s the test of a new weapon by the Americans”. Some mentioned Super hero or Bruce Willis, who do not cope with their official duties, and it’s time for them to retire.

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

Internet users of the national  social site ask – Where were you Bruce?

When a chunk of material, ice or rock, plunges into Earth’s atmosphere and burns up in a fiery display, the event is a meteor. While the chunk of material is still in space, it is a meteoroid. If a portion of the material survives passage through the atmosphere and reaches the ground, the remnant on the ground is a meteorite.

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

Many injured had bloodied faces from being hit by shards of glass broken in the explosions

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Meteorites found on Earth are classified into types, depending on the composition: irons, those composed chiefly of iron, a small percentage of nickel, and traces of other metals such as cobalt; stones, stony meteors consisting of silicates; and stony irons, containing varying proportions of both iron and stone.

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

The hole from the meteorite strike

The hole from the meteorite strike

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom

Such damages were caused by meteorite’s sonic boom

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom - school class room

Broken windows in a school class room

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom - small cafe

damages in a small cafe

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom

The meteorite’s sonic boom broke windows in buildings

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom

Broken glass doors, windows caused by meteorite’s sonic boom

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom

Residential area houses with broken windows. Such damages were caused by meteorite’s sonic boom

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom

Strong meteorite’s sonic boom destroyed many houses

damages caused by meteorite's sonic boom

damaged house

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

The damages from a falling meteorite

trail of a falling meteorite

trail of a meteorite

trail of a falling meteorite

trail of a falling meteorite

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

meteorite in Russia

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

Chelyabinsk meteorite in Russia

A terrifying meteorite left a thousand people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia on February 15, 2013

A terrifying meteorite left a thousand people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia on February 15, 2013

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