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 ...

Alamy The Chelyabinsk meteor was just 20m (66ft ... all either heavily fractured solid objects or rock piles – smaller fragments of asteroids grouped together mostly by gravity." ...

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 ...

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 ...

In February 2013, a fireball streaked through the clear morning sky in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. Hundreds of people were injured after the meteor blew apart in the atmosphere resulting in a ...