Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Sonic Boom Shatters Windows

[weirdwolf]

Very big magnets...

That's funny right there

[JALU]

There has already been outrageous speculations about this being a new secret missile test by the United States!

Sadly this event was visually reminiscent of the STS-107 mishap ...   

[gandy]

Parts of that meteor actually made it to the ground or rather a lake. I stumbled on this set of images from the UK Telegraph website.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9873135/The-aftermath-of-the-meteor-that-exploded-over-Russia.html

[Yankee]

The rocks they found were chondrite stone chunks.

Not metallic or basalt, as is in other common meteors.

Per the morning newspaper.

[menotu]

Looks like folks in Germany can't see some Youtube videos of the meteor

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/germans-cant-see-meteorite-youtube-videos-due-to-copyright-dispute/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

[µT6]

[joechimp]

Now that would be funny

[gandy]

Nah, too small and happened without warning. The one that wiped out the dinosaurs was around 9 miles in diameter. Astronomers would probably be able to see that one coming for months or longer.