Main News of February 15
Ukrainian investigators are not ruling out the possibility that a terror attack caused the crash of an Antonov An-24 turboprop airliner at Donetsk Airport on February 13, Deputy Prosecutor General ...
View ArticleNuclear-like meteor blast injures 1000 in Russia
By Alan Boyle and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News A meteor 15 meters across flared through the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday, triggering an atomic bomb-sized shock wave that ...
View ArticleInjuries from Russias meteorite fall rise to around 1000
/enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Injuries caused by a fallen meteorite in Russia's Urals region have risen to around 1,000, including over 200 children, the Russian Interior Ministry said on Friday. ...
View ArticleRussia Meteor Were all going to die But when And how
A Geminid meteor streaks diagonally across the sky against a field of star trails behind one of the peaks of the Seven Sisters rock formation in this long exposure early December 14, 2010 in the ...
View ArticleRussia gets rude welcome to fireball month
It's fireball season on Earth, and it is starkly clear for residents in eastern Russia where a bright fireball exploded in the atmosphere early Friday.For reasons scientists don't quite ...
View ArticleIs Russia Marked For Meteors
occurred at Tunguska in Siberia just over a century ago. Another big one, though less known, occurred at a place called Sikhote-Alin, also in Russia, in 1947. The so-called 'Tunguska event' ...
View ArticleRussia Meteor Blast is Biggest in 100 Years
'); What appears to be a meteor trail over eastern Russia is seen in this image released Feb. 15, 2013, by the Russian Emergency Ministry. The meteor fall included a massive blast, according ...
View ArticleVideo What we know about the meteorite that slammed into Russia injuring...
Globe multimedia reporter Affan Chowdhry and science reporter Ivan Semeniuk discuss the large bus-sized meteorite that caused significant damage in Russia ...
View ArticleMoscow ranked 14th on list of Russias dirtiest cities
Specialists in the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources have prepared the State report "On the Condition and Environmental Protection of the Russian Federation in 2011." The report ...
View ArticleRussian meteor shower There was panic
With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region Friday and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb, injuring more than 1,000 ...
View ArticleTheres A Reason Why The Russian Meteor Was Filmed By So Many People
, Russian ex-pat and journalist Marina Galperina offered a few reasons, which boil down to dangerous driving conditions and the unreliability of Russian traffic police. Driving in Russia is ...
View ArticleMeteorite Falls in Russia Lights Up the Sky VIDEO
A meteorite only a few meters long fell to Earth above Chelyabinsk, early this morning. The shockwave caused by the object shattered windows and caused hundreds of injuries. A video of the event has ...
View ArticleWhy Almost Everyone in Russia Has a Dash Cam
able to capture video of a massive meteor flying through the sky ? Because almost everyone in Russia has a dash-mounted video camera in their car. The sheer size of the country, combined with lax ...
View ArticleRussian meteorite images caught on dashboard cameras
MOSCOW (Reuters) - It is no coincidence the first videos that captured the images of a meteorite breaking apart over central Russia on Friday were shot from drivers' dashboard cameras. The ...
View ArticleRussia Meteor Explosion How Powerful Was It
NASA scientists say the two objects were on very different trajectories and are thus completely unrelated. But Russia has been bombarded before: In 1908, a piece of asteroid or comet exploded over ...
View ArticleRussia Meteor Explosion 7 Questions Answered
meteor trail and its aftermath quickly appeared online, and analyses of these eyewitness accounts as well as measurements from scientific instruments are giving scientists one of the best looks ever ...
View ArticleRussian hockey arena temporarily closed due to asteroid damage
The home arena of Traktor Chelyabinsk of the KHL has been temporarily closed for an unusual reason: damage caused by an airburst, the result of the explosion of a small(-ish!) asteroid in the ...
View ArticleInjuries Swell to 1000 After Meteorite Hits Central Russia
falling meteorite fragments Friday, mostly in the Chelyabinsk Region, the Interior Ministry said in the early evening. Figures on hospitalization varied significantly, however, and most injuries ...
View ArticleUS States Vie for Drone Test Sites
WASHINGTON, February 15 (By Sasha Horne for RIA Novosti) Dozens of American states are in a fierce competition, vying to become home to one of six new proposed drone test sites, a major step towards ...
View ArticlePutin Personality Disorder - By Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy
Russia merited just one mention in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, an offhand remark that his administration will continue to "engage Russia to seek ...
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