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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ted Bundy" data-source="post: 14476691" data-attributes="member: 419512">A meteor or meteors entered the atmosphere over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk early Friday and exploded in the sky, generating a shock wave that injured an estimated 950 people and damaged buildings. It is unclear whether pieces of the meteor hit the ground. Chelyabinsk is a city of about 1.1m people situated about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.• The unusual event was captured in many videos shot from cars and surveillance cameras. Videos show a blinding brightness, a dazzling object moving with astonishing speed and a long contrail. The Russian Academy of Sciences says the meteor weighed 10 tons and entered the earth’s atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000mph (54,000kph) and shattered between 18 and 32 miles above ground.• The shockwave from the explosion when the meteor entered the earth's atmosphere smashed windows, buckled shop fronts, set off car alarms and took out mobile phone signals. A wall was damaged at the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant but there was no environmental threat, a plant spokeswoman said.</blockquote>

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