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  • A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring several hundred people, including many hurt by broken glass.
  • A local resident repairs a window broken by a shock wave from a meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk. A meteor streaked at supersonic speed over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured several hundred people and frightened countless more. (AP Photo/Boris Kaulin)
  • A meteorite contrail is seen in this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabins region, Russia. The photo was provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013.
  • Cars pass by a zinc factory with a collapsed roof in Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. There was no immediate clarification of whether the collapse was caused by meteorites or by a shock wave from one of the explosions. (AP Photo/Boris Kaulin)
  • In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru, municipal workers repair damaged electric power circuit outside a zinc factory building where about 600 square meters (6000 square feet) of a roof collapsed after a meteorite exploded over in Chelyabinsk region.
  • In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a meteorite trail is seen in Chelyabinsk region.
  • In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, a meteor streaks through the sky over Chelyabinsk. Scientists estimate it weighed 10 tons. (AP Photo/AP Video)
  • In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a minivan passes a zinc factory in Chelyabinsk where a roof collapsed. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring several hundred people, including many hurt by broken glass. (AP Photo/Valentin Kazakov)
  • The Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement hours after the Friday morning fall that the meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above ground. The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area. (AP Photo/ Yevgenia Yemelyanova, Chelyabinsk.ru) (AP Photo/Sergey Hametov)
  • A meteorite contrail is seen over a vilage of Bolshoe Sidelnikovo. The meteor caused sharp explosions and reportedly injured several hundred people. (AP Photo/ Nadezhda Luchinina, E1.ru)
  • A woman cleans away glass debris from a window after a meteorite explosion which caused a shockwave that blew out windows, injuring hundreds of people and sending fragments falling to the ground in the Ural Mountains.
  • In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a meteorite contrail is seen. (AP Photo/Sergey Hametov)
 

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