10 Ton Meteor Hit Russia injures Thousand Residents: Russian citizens were struck by a meteor across the sky on Friday morning (15/2). Meteor falls in Chelyabinsk, Ural Mountains, Russia, and caused thousand injured.
Reported Sfgate, Saturday (16/02/2013), meteor in the sky Russia raises fireball light with hypersonic speed of approximately 33,000 mph. Reportedly, in order to prevent the worst effects of the meteor hit, the Russian military forces are using missiles to destroy the object space.
Russian Academy of Sciences estimates that the 10-ton meteor streaking at supersonic speed and 54 thousand miles per hour. Stones from the sky exploded at an altitude of 30-50 km above the ground. When across the sky can be seen in the form of a white trail up to a distance of 200 km.
Russia's Ministry of Emergency 20 states have deployed thousands of rescue workers and cleaners to the region after President Vladimir Putin gave the order. Until now there has been no reports of fatalities, but the Russian Interior Ministry said about 1,200 people were injured. They generally suffer injuries from shards of glass buildings destroyed by the blast meteor power.
At that time the people who are going to work in Chelyabinsk heard a sound like an explosion followed by a bright light and then felt the pounding waves. "The people of the city saw a blinding white light," said a teacher at the Chelyabinsk in the office of RIA Novosti.
When a meteor exploded, had been a change in the ambient temperature of -6 degrees so the location of -18 degrees Celsius and cut off telecommunications services. Governor of Chelyabinsk, Mikhail Yurevich, said large pieces of the meteorite that crashed in a lake 50 km west of Chelyabinsk form 8-meter wide crater. Yet another report says debris also fell in the Tyumen, Kurgan and Sverdlovsk.