On the morning on February 15th people across russia looked out their windows to find a long white contrail formed across the sky.
It was a meteorite. A meteorite is “a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earths atmosphere, appearing in the form of a streak of light that survives its passage through the earths atmosphere and falls to the ground.” A meteorite, although very rare, has struck upon Russia.
In this devastating incident over 1,000 people were severely injured by fortunately no deaths were reported. About 200 children were injured as well. This meteorite has never injured so many people before. Most of these injuries had to do with glass window explosions. Some were injured with skull trauma and broken bones.
The meteorite exploded over the Ural Mountains of Russia, which forms a chain of mountains between European Russia and Siberia. The meteor was very rare because the material was very hard and allowed small pieces of it to touch the Earth’s surface. Nobody can tell how large the meteorite exactly was but some scientist believed it weighed around 7,000 tons.
– Devon
