Russia Meteor

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  Exotic Crystals With Unique Structure Found in Dust From Chelyabinsk Meteor Explosion

  Researchers have found unique carbon crystals having unusual shapes in the grains of preserved meteorite dust. The dust was the result of a space rock explosion that took place over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.

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  Panic As "Blindingly Bright" Meteor Explodes Over Russia With Loud Boom

  Onlookers were left panicking when a meteor exploded over Siberia in Russia on Saturday.

• Meteor medals an extra incentive in Sochi

  There are gold medals, and there are those of the meteoric kind.

• Russia pulls a half-tonne 'meteor chunk' from lake

  Russian divers Wednesday pulled from a murky lake in the Urals a half-tonne suspected meteorite said to have been part of a meteor whose ground-shaking shockwave hurt 1,200 people in February.

• Meteor that hit Russia may have had close shave with Sun

  The meteor that injured over 1,500 people when it exploded and showered debris over Russia in February may have had a close shave with the Sun earlier, researchers said Tuesday.

• Large asteroid heading to Earth? Pray, says NASA

  That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a US House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.

• Russia mulls beacons and the bomb to thwart asteroids

  Russian officials on Tuesday proposed ideas ranging from planting beacon transmitters on asteroids to megaton-sized nuclear strikes to avert the threat from meteor collisions with the Earth.

• Russia asks: How do you stop space objects hitting Earth?

  Russia has found, to its cost, that it has no answers. But United States and European experts may be able to help with a few ideas that at first glance seem straight out of science fiction, including smashing spacecraft into asteroids, using the sun's rays to vaporise them, or blasting them with nuclear bombs.

• Russian meteor damage estimated at over $30 million

  Russian authorities estimate that the meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the sky over the Ural Mountains region caused more than $30 million in damage.

• Scientists discover Russian meteor fragments: report

  Scientists have discovered fragments of the meteor that spectacularly plunged over Russia's Ural Mountains creating a shockwave that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes, RIA Novosti reported Monday.

• Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs

  The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, NASA scientists say.

• Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall

  A small army of workers set to work on Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

• Divers scour Russian lake after meteor strike injures 1,200 Russians

  Divers scoured the bottom of a Russian lake on Saturday for fragments of a meteorite that plunged to Earth in a blinding fireball whose shock-waves injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes.

• In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day

  An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.

• Asteroid will buzz, miss Earth, unlike meteor

  A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined on Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains just hours before the asteroid was due to zoom past the planet.