Here is the latest from NASA. Note that this is the largest impact since the 2008 Tunguska Event. "The Russia meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia. The meteor entered the atmosphere at about 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second). The impact time was 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15), and the energy released by the impact was in the hundreds of kilotons. Based on the duration of the event, it was a very shallow entry. It was larger than the meteor over Indonesia on Oct. 8, 2009. Measurements are still coming in, and a more precise measure of the energy may be available later. The size of the object before hitting the atmosphere was about 49 feet (15 meters) and had a mass of about 7,000 tons. The meteor, which was about one-third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the sun. Its trail was visible for about 30 seconds, so it was a grazing impact through the atmosphere." http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html Also the following link from Russia shows the hole in the reservoir and fragments on the ice around the hole. http://74.mvd.ru/news/item/845855/ Think I want to purchase a piece of this one since I can't get to Russia to find a fragment.
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