400 injured by meteorite fragments in Russia
By Mourad Anouar
Morocco News Tribune
Oklahoma City, U.S.A—Nearly 400 people were injured by broken glass after a meteorite shot across the skies of the Russian city Chelyabinsk Friday, news agencies reported. As for the descriptive essay help on the topic of such events, you can choose to order a project at https://writingscentre.com/perfect-descriptive-essay/.
Russian website en.rian.ru said that “Almost 500 people were injured when fragments from what Russia’s Emergencies Ministries says was a single meteorite fell across central Russia. Most people were hurt by shattering glass”.
The object was a meteorite, moving at “around 30km per second at a low trajectory, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said.
The U.S. space agency NASA has said “an asteroid known as 2012 DA14, asteroid 2012 DA14 as it was seen on Feb. 14, 2013, at a distance of 465,000 miles (748,000 kilometers”.
The explosion happened when Chelyabinsk residents were heading to work Friday morning.
“We saw a big burst of light then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud thundering sound,” a witness told The Associated Press by telephone.
“the Friday morning meteorite fall in the Urals has not caused any serious disruptions, all housing and public utilities facilities, energy and communications facilities are operating normally “, chief of the National Crisis Management Centre of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Vladimir Stepanov told Russian News Agency Itar-Tass.
Areas in central Russia’s as well in north Kazakhstan are so far confirmed to have received fragments from the meteorites according to Russian websites.