From < http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-... >: Debris and a Boom, Likely From a Meteor, Hit Siberia Fire in the Russian Sky: The Times’s Ellen Barry and Richard P. Binzel, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, discuss the explosive event over western Siberia on Friday. By ELLEN BARRY and ANDREW E. KRAMER MOSCOW — Bright objects, apparently debris from a meteor, streaked through the sky in western Siberia early Friday, accompanied by a thunderous shock wave that damaged buildings across a vast territory. Russia’s Interior Ministry said more than 1,000 people were injured, 200 of them children, mostly from shards of glass that shattered when the meteor entered the atmosphere. . . . . . .