A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, it’s sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people. This frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many of the injured were cut by flying shards of glass as they flocked to windows, curious about what had produced such blinding flash of light.
People guessed that the meteor weighed about 10 tons and 49 feet wide and it entered the earth’s atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered into pieces about 18-32 miles above the surface, but even though some asteroids are small they can deliver a lot of damage. There was a panic but people had no idea what was happening. Russians saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was.
The meteor released several kilotons of energy above the region. There was no immediate word on any deaths or anyone struck space fragments. Meteors can cause damage like, break windows, they cause fires, and knock down trees.
People guessed that the meteor weighed about 10 tons and 49 feet wide and it entered the earth’s atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered into pieces about 18-32 miles above the surface, but even though some asteroids are small they can deliver a lot of damage. There was a panic but people had no idea what was happening. Russians saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was.
The meteor released several kilotons of energy above the region. There was no immediate word on any deaths or anyone struck space fragments. Meteors can cause damage like, break windows, they cause fires, and knock down trees.