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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f347.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[https://tonyortega.org/2013/02/15/epic-fireball-over-russia/ Epic Fireball Over Russia]</span>''' <span class="updated">February 15, 2013</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Tony Ortega</span>, <span class="org organization-name">Underground Bunker</span></span>
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<span class="entry-content">Our thanks to Phil Plait, who alerted us to this on [[:Category:Twitter|Twitter]]. Several amazing videos are coming in from the Ural Mountains region of [[:Category:Russia|Russia]], where a meteor provided an incredible show about an hour ago (midnight Eastern time), near the city of Chelyabinsk.

Plait (of Bad Astronomer fame) guesses that this object is unrelated to [[:Category:2012|2012]]DA14, a 50-meter asteroid that is passing very close to the Earth in several more hours.

So far, the only reporting on this we've seen is a [[:Category:Reuters|Reuters]] report mistakenly labeling this a "meteor shower." This is clearly not a shower but a single object, a meteor, which looks like it broke up, producing parallel trails as it burned up in a spectacular daytime fireball.</span>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Wikipedia cite:<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><nowiki>{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = Epic Fireball Over Russia | url = https://tonyortega.org/2013/02/15/epic-fireball-over-russia/ | work = Underground Bunker | date = February 15, 2013 | accessdate = August 21, 2017 }}</nowiki></div></div>
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