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Impact location, injuries & damage Including 297 6 12 Hospitals Buildings damaged Schools 1000 Injuries Of those E30 Meteorite debris hit M5 zinc factory here M51 100+ Were hospitalised Main meteorite impacted eighty miles west of Chelyabinsk Kopeys R US S I A Moscow Chelyabinsk Yekaterinburg o M5 KAZAKHSTA N Meteorite in numbers The bright initial fireball was caused by rapidly ionising gases in the atmosphere. The meteor hit the atmosphere at an initial speed of 10-13 miles per second. The object entered the atmosphere 32 miles up. The sonic boom took two minutes and 30 seconds to reach the ground. Meteors of this size are said to hit the Earth on the order of once a decade The meteorite produced many fragments over a wide area. The main piece hit a lake 80 miles west of Chelyabinsk. Asteroid and meteor paths The meteor which hit Russia is entirely unconnected to the flyby of the massive 130,000 ton asteroid 2012 DA14 which is expected to miss the Earth by a narrow margin at 19.25 GMT on Friday 15, Febuary 2013. The two asteroids come from completely different directions. 00:00 ASTEROID 2012 DA14 APPROXIMATE PATH OF RUSSIAN METEOR IMPACTED RUSSIA AT 03:15 GMT 21:00 TO SUN EARTH The asteroids compared Typical GPS Satellite orbit 18:00 2m (approx) MOON Moon's orbit 50m RUSSIAN METEOR 15:00, Feb 15 (GMT) SPACE SHUTTLE ASTEROID 2012 DA14 SOURCES DR SIMON GREEN, SENIOR LECTURER IN PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCES AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, P.CHODAS NASA & @BREAKINGNEWS

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