Wow

Big meteor hit the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia...

...and goes BOOM!:








Videos are being collected here and Phil writes here.

(Almost) death from the skies!

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ADDED: From the Guardian's live blog, damage (probably from the shockwave) to a zinc plant in Chelyabinsk:

ADDED II: Interesting (skip to about 1:10):

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Comments

[gyma]

I'm pretty sure that guy on the last vid said WTF? in Russian when all the glass broke. I heard last night that if it had landed an hour earlier (later?) it would have been over Moscow.

Maybe Washington needs an SUV-sized meteorite strike!