Awesome Video Shows Blinding Meteorite Shooting Through a Russian City at Night

Footage has emerged from Russia showing a meteor exploding as it enters the atmosphere and lighting up the night sky.

In the short clip, recorded on a car’s dash camera, a bright object can be seen streaking across the sky before breaking into pieces and disappearing.

The scenes are reminiscent of the 2013 Russian meteor which exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, shattering glass in nearby buildings and injuring 1,200 people.

Some have cast doubt on the new extra-terrestrial object, pointing out that Russia has a military base nearby and it could simply be a missile test, but no long range tests were scheduled for that evening.

Witnesses in Russia’s northern Murmansk region say that, unlike the previous meteor, there was no audible explosion when the bright object appeared at roughly 2.10pm local time.

The Daily Mail reports, "Earlier this year Russia included fragment of the meteor in medals which they handed out at the Sochi winter Olympics to mark the anniversary of the rock falling to Earth. A meteor occurs when an object from space, usually rock, gets dragged into the Earth's atmosphere by gravity, burning up as it encounters friction."

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