Meteorite destroyed factory workshop near Chelyabinsk

Olga Zadvornov, Life News Online

Remnant of a large asteroid 2012 DA14, passing at a record close to the Earth, the company fell on the southern Urals.
 

According to eyewitnesses, the celestial body collapsed on the body, which contained waste. On a scale emergency became known in the early morning on February 15.
Powerful flash lit up the sky just above the six regions of Russia: Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Tyumen, and the republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan. The epicenter of the fall was the Chelyabinsk region, across which a regime of emergency.
- According to preliminary data, the celestial body, flying through the air, fell into the territory of the zinc plant in the capital of the Southern Urals, and broke down the wall of fiber connections and ISPs and mobile operators - told in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Chelyabinsk region. - In Chelyabinsk observed communication failure.
As reported by the official representatives of agencies over the territory of the Chelyabinsk region was meteor rain as cars. The radiation background is normal.
The results of the explosion were also clearly visible residents of Ekaterinburg and Kurgan region. According to eyewitnesses, the smoky plume falling object was visible in the sky, even at a distance of several kilometers from the city.
According to rescuers, many residents of Chelyabinsk had to be hospitalized with cuts from the crashed window panes. Is known about the four affected children being taken to hospital from the kindergarten № 461. Also injured nine students in the school № 15.
Specialists believe that the explosions are associated with passing near Earth asteroid 2012 DA14. This celestial object with a diameter of 45 meters is at a record close of our planet - only 28 thousand kilometers.
- Over the Urals region recorded meteor rain as cars, - reported in the Urals Observatory. - The phenomenon was observed in several regions - Tyumen, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions and Bashkortostan. This is due to close to the Earth passing meteor.

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