People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt the shock wave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 1, km miles east of Moscow. The fireball, travelling at a speed of 30 km 19 miles per second according to Russian space agency Roscosmos, had blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail that could be seen as far as km miles away.
Car alarms went off, thousands of windows shattered and mobile phone networks were disrupted. The Interior Ministry said the meteorite explosion, a very rare spectacle, also unleashed a sonic boom. No deaths were reported but the Emergencies Ministry said 20, rescue and clean-up workers were sent to the region after President Vladimir Putin told Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov to ease the disruption and help the victims.
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The Chelyabinsk region, about 1,km miles east of Moscow, is home to many factories, a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre. One Russian politician said the event was not a meteor shower but a US weapons test, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted as saying: "Meteors are falling. Those are not meteors, it is Americans testing their new weapon. Chelyabinsk's health department said people had sought medical treatment, including children, Interfax reported.
Two people in the town of Kopeysk were in a serious condition, it added. The governor of Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, was quoted elsewhere as saying people had been hurt, two seriously. And the hits kept on coming, with the parent body absorbing strike after strike between 4. Earth and other planets in the inner solar system were also pummeled during this period, which is known as the "late heavy bombardment.
The LL chondrite parent body apparently then got a break, and was left alone to lick its wounds for a few billion years. But meteorite fragments record evidence of two more large impacts in the last million years, with one of them coming between 30 million and 25 million years ago.
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