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Friday, February 15, 2013
The Apocalypse / PANIC! / Astronomy Meteorocalypse! (Asterocalypse? WHATEVER!) Sweet Video of Meteor Explosions!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM
As Denis mentioned in Good Morning News, Russia had some little visitors yesterday—meteorites that exploded over the Urals in Russia, damaging 300 buildings and injuring 900 people (mostly via broken glass). Here's an awesome news report from Russia Today in which the (fairly flippant) Brit host and his not-exactly-a-scientist-but-she's-cute "expert" reporter describe what happened and—here's the important part—show TONS of sweet video. And while I realize these meteorites were definitely trying to kill us, they're still kind of... beautiful? WATCH.
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