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Meteor Strikes Russia, Hundreds Injured [VIDEO]

Russia Meteorite

At least 400 people are injured after a meteor streaks across Russia’s Ural Mountains.

FOX News Radio’s Jessica Golloher has the details from Moscow:

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RUSSIA METEORITE

Residents say they saw a giant white ball of fire streak through the sky, explosions and then rocks on fire fall to the ground.

A 19-story sky scraper in the region lost most of its windows from the shock-wave and a zinc factory’s roof also caved in due to the explosion.

Russian officials are urging people not to panic and that it was merely a meteor and not the end of the world. Thousands of personnel have been dispatched to the region to assess the damage and to help treat minor injuries.

In Moscow, Jessica Golloher, FOX News Radio.

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2 Comments

  1. Eric

    February 15, 2013 at 10:52 pm

    I'm not sure that woman was correct on ANY of her facts.
    NASA doesn't track asteroids. Its a small group of people (about 50 WORLD WIDE) and they can only see the big ones <1km An asteroid as small as 100 meters (small enough to fit onto a football field) would utterly destroy LA, killing millions. Most likely the only warning we would have would be the fire ball as it entered the atmosphere. If you were in the impact zone you MIGHT have time to look up and say "Aw Sh-" before you died. The rock that left Meter Creator in AZ was 100 meters.
    NASA has no real idea how to deflect an asteroid. There are theories, but no one really knows if they'd really work.
    She was also wrong about the frequency. There are air bursts 1 or 2 times EVERY YEAR. Usually very high and over remote parts of the Earth. This is a real danger that can happen AT ANY TIME. Yet they have cut funding for NASA AGAIN!

  2. Austin

    February 16, 2013 at 1:25 am

    I saw a meteor come to earth from chester california at about 7:45 pm today and it was huge and going down tward the earth at a greater angle than a shooting star. Im wondering was it the same one or a diferent meteor cause this was posed long before i saw the flash across the sky. .