Meteor explodes over Russia

As many as 700 people have been injured in Russia, after a meteor streaked through the sky Friday morning raining down broken glass on a remote area of Russia.

People on the streets and those driving their cars stopped dead in their tracks around 9:30 Friday morning, local time, when there was a sudden explosion of white light and a blaring sound. There’s a flood of amateur videos circulating the web right now, capturing the moment the meteorite fragments slammed into Chelyabinsk, Russia. The bright flash and boom of it shattered glass in buildings and left hundreds of people hurt, though reports say no one was *seriously* injured.
Bill Nye “the science guy” weighed in on it all morning and says it won’t be the last time something like this happens.
“It’s unusual, so far, but as the world becomes more populous, there will be more injuries like this. The most famous one is 1908 over Siberia, not to single out that continent, but there was an air burst. This is where the meteor, the asteroid, the cometary material was coming into the Earth’s atmosphere so fast that the Earth’s atmosphere acts like concrete and the thing disintegrates in mid-air.”
In other space news, an asteroid about half the size of a football field is expected to brush past earth Friday around 2:30pm eastern time over the Indian Ocean.