"The Chelyabinsk meteorite event has given us vast experience ... buildings in Chelyabinsk and its outskirts. Large fragments of the celestial body were later recovered from the shores ...

it cracked and split into three parts," said Chelyabinsk Region Governor Mikhail Yurevich. The fragment is believed to be the largest one from a meteor that exploded over the Urals region last ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia with a force of 40 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. Damage stretched for 500 square kilometers, destroying 7,200 building and injuring over 1,400 people in its ...

He's talking about the Chelyabinsk meteor ... knocked people to the floor and brought down walls. Fragments of rock from the meteor continued to the ground - some large enough to inflict mini ...

Badyukov, who headed the institute’s expedition to the Chelyabinsk meteorite’s landing site, said that about one hundred of its fragments have been recovered to date, weighing 2-3 kilograms in ...

That means each fragment could have been up to 1,250 metres wide - more than 60 times larger than the Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over Russia in 2013. Dr Kring says: 'The energy to produce ...

The meteor that exploded over Russia Friday was slightly larger than previously thought and more powerful, too, NASA scientists say. The explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk, on Friday injured ...