Johannesburg Centre, Astronomical Society of Southern Africa

Asteroid 'Hit Northern Russia'

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_684445.html
October 4, 2002

A large meteorite is thought to have smashed into a forest in a remote area of Russia. Residents in the town of Bodaibo, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, saw a large luminous body fall from the sky.  They say the impact caused the ground to shake and made a sound like thunder.

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