Four decades. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. We begin tonight with that meteor that exploded over russia. Scientists now say it was even bigger and heavier than they first thought 55 feet long and weighing 10,000 tons. It was moving at a speed of 40,000 Miles Per Hour when it hit the atmosphere, produce an enormous shock wave that blew out windows and injured 1200 people in chelyabinsk, russia. Tony guida has more on the largest known media to hit the earth since 1908. Reporter at chebarkul lake 950 miles east of moscow, scientists today looked for remnants of the meteor. Fisherman Valery Morozov saw the space rock falling through the sky. In a matter of seconding, he says, it appeared to grow from a small flare into a huge ball and then an unbelievably bright flash. About once every 100 years something bigger than a minivan will come through the atmosphere and impact either our atmosphere or the earth. Reporter and this was that event .
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