Today has been a particularly active day for news involving large rocks from space. While the large asteroid 2012 DA14 passes near the Earth's surface that many of our satellites, a meteorite seemingly unrelated crossed the Siberian sky early in the morning, damaging buildings and injuring people in the Russian news agency path . a reports that the impact crater was found 50 miles from the city of Chelyabinsk and some small meteorite fragments have been recovered. This particular area of Russia is home to a number of nuclear facilities, and the New York Times reports that the massive response the government sent more than 10,000 people in the field to look for places where meteorites may stuck. Monitoring of radioactive leaks damage has so far produced all negative, according to the report.
Speculation that the meteor could be a harbinger of something darker, of course rampant. A Russian politician said the meteorite was actually a test of a new American weapon, while a cleric in the country said it was a warning from God. Others have speculated that it had something to do with the overview of the asteroid 2012 DA14 - something that the European space officials say is absolutely not the case.
