Fri February 15, 2013 'No Link' Between Meteor That Hurt
Hundreds And Asteroid About To Fly By Originally published on
Fri February 15, 2013 3:40 pm So, on the day when an asteroid
the size of an office building buzzed the planet, there's this
unsettling news: "A meteor streaked across the sky above
Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp
explosions and injuring [hundreds of] people, many of them hurt
by broken glass. At least three people were reported
hospitalized in serious condition." (The Associated Press) But
scientists at the European Space Agency report on their Twitter
page that: "ESA experts confirm *no* link between #meteor
incidents in #Russia & #Asteroid #2012DA14 Earth flyby of
tonight #SSA #NEO" The sounds and sights from Russia, though,
may make you want to look up around 2:24 p.m. ET today, when
asteroid 2012 DA14 is due to slip by "only" 17,000 miles above
us. "Yelena Smirnykh, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of
Emergency Situations, told Ekho Moskvy radio that she believed t