Meteor Shower hits Russia!!

[Sea_Breeze]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21468116

Now THAT would be scary

This link has a better video
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/8310799/Russia-showered-by-meteorite-rain

[Jemstar666]

OMG!! WOW! 

Beautifully Scary!

[Beachball]

I'm torn between feeling terrible about the people injured and being fascinated with the meteor. The meteor looked so beautiful piercing the sky.

[kellyponyfeathers]

I've been wanting to see a fireball for years, but that was a little scary.  Sounds like they're not really sure what happened, but it doesn't sound like it reached the ground.  Maybe it exploded before it landed, causing the loud boom and the rain of smaller fragments the article described?

[Beldarna]

I'm torn between feeling terrible about the people injured and being fascinated with the meteor. The meteor looked so beautiful piercing the sky.

This.

[Wadatsumi]

it's really scary to think about what could hit us from above....

[Shenanigans]

OMG, this is rather shocking to me

[StarDapple]

Wow!  That would have been both really fascinating and horrifying to see.  I feel bad that so many people were hurt, but I am glad there were no deaths.

[Mysticolt]

I don't get why astronomers didn't see it coming and notify the authorities to evacuate the area?

[BerryMouse]

I'm torn between feeling terrible about the people injured and being fascinated with the meteor. The meteor looked so beautiful piercing the sky.

Yes, this!

First was: Wow, beautiful!
and the: oh how horrible!!

[kaoskat]

Wow!  That would have been both really fascinating and horrifying to see.  I feel bad that so many people were hurt, but I am glad there were no deaths.

This! I'm glad no one was killed!

[shockponie]

That's crazy. I would've been stunned! I had an apocalyptic nightmare like this once. The sky was red though.

[starrypawz]

I don't get why astronomers didn't see it coming and notify the authorities to evacuate the area?

From what I understand it was actually pretty small so they may have not picked it up.

[melodys_angel]

Beautiful but scary at the same time! 

Im glad noone was seriously hurt (from what I can tell).

[Roccoriel]

I don't get why astronomers didn't see it coming and notify the authorities to evacuate the area?

From what I understand it was actually pretty small so they may have not picked it up.

That, the meteor was about 10 tons, so about the size of a car.  Plus, especially with something of that size, I would imagine getting an accurate evacuation area would be extremely difficult.  Making predictions about things like this is terribly difficult, and it can be a darned if you do darned if you don't sort of situation, providing they even knew something this small was coming.

But I'm thinking it's small enough that they didn't even pick it up.

Really interesting to see, I'm glad no one was killed.