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In a timely event a 10 ton meteorite arcs through the sky over Chelyabinsk an area of Russia north of Kasakhstan. This was quite the event. It preceeds the larger 130,000 ton asteroid 2012 DA14 which will pass the Earth tonight at abuot 7:30 p.m. Eastern. This piece above is just a pebble by comparison. The main event if it ever happens would have the explosive force of a thousand nuclear weapons and would level any large city to dust. The impact crater would be a talking point for millenia. Life is a very fragile existence. It is here; then it is gone in a heartbeat.
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Spectacular sky: The Urals region was struck by falling meteorite fragments which fell in the city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border
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Before and after: A video showed a street scene in Russia before the meteorite shower struck. Seconds later the street was lit up in a haze of bright white as the large fireball exploded
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Interception: According to an unconfirmed report in Russia Today, the meteor was intercepted by Russian air defense
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Medical treatment: Many injured had bloodied faces from being hit by shards of glass broken in the explosions
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Hurtling through space at speeds of five miles a second, eight times as fast as a speeding bullet, it will come within 17,000 miles of Earth at 7.24pm tomorrow.
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