NASA estimated that the amount of energy released in the atmosphere was about 30 times greater than the force of the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

 


Divers scour Russian lake after meteor hurts 1,200 (via AFP)

Divers scoured the bottom of a Russian lake on Saturday for fragments of a meteorite that plunged to Earth in a blinding fireball whose shockwave injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes. The 10-tonnes meteor streaked across the Urals region on Friday just as the world braced for a close…