Meteor falling in Siberia, Russia.

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Lafiel said:

superchunk said:

Sharu said:

Somini said:

I thought this was about the meteor that's gonna pass near the Earth today, but i see the date on the video is from 2012!! Still amazing though :)

Oh, no, its todays meteor. Just wrong date on the videoregister... Russia, you know... )))

Added another video in the OP.

However, I don't think its a meteorite of the asteroid that is passing earth today very close. That was much larger and would like cause far more severe damage.

I think this just coincidence to be on same day and far smaller.

Actually it's very very likely to be a former part of that asteroid. This fragment probably seperated from the main part hundreds of thousends of years ago, but still roughly shared it's orbit.

It's very likely that the fragment separated recently due to the heat of being near the sun.