Meteor Menace

Two space rocks hours apart emphasize the danger

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press • A circular hole appears Friday in the ice of Chebarkul Lake, where a meteor reportedly struck the lake near Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow. A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc on a city. And Hollywood to the contrary, there isn’t much the world’s scientists and generals can do about...

Published: 02/16/2013