Meteorite Shower Hits Russia Injuring 500 (48)

Tweet More than 500 people have been injured after a meteor strike in central Russia, the country's interior ministry said. Fragments of at least one meteorite were seen falling from the morning sky in the Chelyabinsk region at around 9am local time, around 1,500km east of Moscow. Witnesses described feeling a pressure wave and hearing explosions overhead as the object hurtled to earth.