Meteorite shower crashes into Russia (video)

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A meteorite shower has crash landed across Russia's Ural region, injuring over 250 900 people and damaging buildings in six cities. Residents in Chelyabinsk reported shaking ground, windows shattering and car alarms going off as the rocks fell to Earth. Officials in the country say that the shower began after a larger meteor disintegrated in the lower atmosphere, causing the fragments to wreak the (currently) non-lethal havoc. If you'd like to compare how wrong (or right) Michael Bay got it in Armageddon, head on past the break for some footage.

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How To Watch Tonight's Spectacular Geminid Meteor Shower

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Late tonight you can catch some of the best sky watching of the year with the annual Geminids Meteor shower.

Hayden Planetarium's Joe Rao says it's always one of the best sky shows, but this year's shower is probably going to be especially good because the moon is at new phase. That means the moonlight won't steal the stage from these sparkly falling gems. You'll start seeing traces of the shower just after sunset, but the peak of the shower is supposed to happen as early as 10pm EST tonight and last into the early hours of tomorrow morning. At its climax, you'll see between 60 and 120 meteors falling from the sky. Of course, that's if you're on the east coast and in an ideal spot—a place with wide open sky where there's not a lot of light pollution. If you're not, you can watch along online here with NASA meteor experts.

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The First Video of Earth Bombarded by Meteors From Orbit

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See those explosions of light against the backdrop of our ever-spinning Earth? They are meteors burning through our planet's mesosphere, captured from the International Space Station in a time lapse made of 316 still frames by astronaut Don Pettit.

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