Had just hours after a very close flyby on a much bigger asteroid. That asteroid is due to fly past the earth in a matter of minutes. More and that in a moment, but first, to the events of russia. The media or was first spotted at around 9 20 a. M. Local time. Russias academy of science said it into the atmosphere at a speed of over 50,000 Kilometers Per Hour and then shattered into pieces. The media is thought to have been just about two meters across, but that was enough to cause a massive sonic boom, and it was far from harmless. Hundreds of people were injured, most of them by shattering glass. A rare moment caught on camera don turned to daylight as the media or into the earths atmosphere with a bang dawn turned to daylight. It streaked above the sky leaving a white trail. Mobile phones stopped working. The shock wave set off car alarms, and local residents were left wondering what was happening. I saw something moving in the sky. Then there was a flash. We thought it was firework
You are watching dw in berlin. This is. These are our top stories of the hour today, the universe came to pay a visit. A meteor shower and asteroid near miss in the space of 24 hours. Corp. For paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius, who denies killing his goal friend. This is the journal. Call it a cosmic coincidence a media blast over the skies had just hours after a very close flyby on a much bigger asteroid. That asteroid is due to fly past the earth in a matter of minutes. More and that in a moment, but first, to the events of russia. The media or was first spotted at around 9 20 a. M. Local time. Russias academy of science said it into the atmosphere at a speed of over 50,000 Kilometers Per Hour and then shattered into pieces. The media is thought to have been just about two meters across, but that was enough to cause a massive sonic boom, and it was far from harmless. Hundreds of people were injured, most of them by shattering glass. A rare moment caught on camera don turned to da
Call it a cosmic coincidence a media blast over the skies had just hours after a very close flyby on a much bigger asteroid. That asteroid is due to fly past the earth in a matter of minutes. More and that in a moment, but first, to the events of russia. The media or was first spotted at around 9 20 a. M. Local time. Russias academy of science said it into the atmosphere at a speed of over 50,000 Kilometers Per Hour and then shattered into pieces. The media is thought to have been just about two meters across, but that was enough to cause a massive sonic boom, and it was far from harmless. Hundreds of people were injured, most of them by shattering glass. A rare moment caught on camera don turned to daylight as the media or into the earths atmosphere with a bang dawn turned to daylight. It streaked above the sky leaving a white trail. Mobile phones stopped working. The shock wave set off car alarms, and local residents were left wondering what was happening. I saw something moving in t