Meteor Chelyabinsk - flight superbolidu a diameter of about 17 meters and a weight of up to 10,000 tons , observed over the southern Urals February 15, 2013 , around 9:20 hours local time ( 4:20 GMT ) . After entering the Earth's atmosphere car disintegrated after 32.5 seconds into the flight at an altitude of 29.7 km above the Earth's surface over the circumference of Chelyabinsk . Flight of the car was seen also from Tyumen and Sverdlovsk circuits and the adjacent regions of Kazakhstan.
The resulting explosion in air travel and car strong shock wave caused significant damage ( damaged more than 7,500 buildings have been ) , and injury to more than one thousand five hundred people .
On the same day , 15 hours later , near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 went ( present name is ( 367943 ) Duende ) with a diameter of about 50 meters , discovered in 2012; close passage of the asteroid and meteorite Chelyabinsk were not linked.
Meteor Chelyabinsk was the largest known space object that collided with Earth since the Tunguska event in 1908 .
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