2013 Chelyabinsk meteor

Trail o the meteor ower Chelyabinsk Location of the meteor event
Date	15 Februar 2013  ( 2013-02-15 )
Time	09:15 YEKT ( UTC+06:00 )
Location	Russia Chelyabinsk Oblast Kurgan Oblast Orenburg Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast Tyumen Oblast Kazakhstan Aktobe Province Kostanay Province
Coordinates	55°03′N 59°48′E  /  55.05°N 59.8°E  / 55.05; 59.8
Kent forby as	KEF-2013
Cause	Meteor
Non-fatal injures	1,491 [1]
Property damage	Collapsed factory roof, shattered windaes

On 15 Februar 2013, a meteor ^[2] entered Yird's atmosphere ower Roushie as a firebaa at approximately 09:13 YEKT (03:13 UTC ). ^{[3] [4]} Muivin at a speed o at least 54,000 km/h (34,000 mph), ^{[5] [6]} roughly 44 times the speed o soond , it passed ower the soothren Ural region an explodit ower the ceety o Chelyabinsk . ^{[n 1]}

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1. ↑ The last time a similar phenomenon was observed in the Chelyabinsk region was the Kunashak meteor rain of 1949, after which scientists recovered about 20 stones weighing over 200 kg in total. ^[7]

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