Videos: Space Rock Explodes Over Russia, Slams Into Building
Incoming! A fireball streaks across the sky on February 15, 2013, as seen from the vantage of a Russian driver's dash-mounted video camera. NEproskochil/YouTubeA space rock detonated into flames and smoke over western Russia Friday during the region's morning commute, ultimately smashing into a factory. The day that a stadium-sized asteroid is scheduled to glide past Earth, a different space rock exploded over three cities in western Russia. The fireball went down during the region's morning commute, sending drivers scrambling to upload their in-dash videos to the web. Fireballs bursting over the Earth is nothing unusual. What is rare is to catch them on camera -- from perhaps hundreds of vantage points. Here's why there are so many videos of the Russian meteorite. Crooks in that country will do anything for a ruble, including throw themselves into a moving car to extort money from drivers. Russian traffic laws make it practically impossible...