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MOSCOW: At about 9:20 AM local time, a roughly 50-foot wide, 11-ton meteor crashed through the Earth's atmosphere to explode roughly 900 miles east of Moscow over the central Ural Mountains, to the great surprise of witnesses. Many  wondered if it was an airplane that hit the building, shattering windows and injuring 1200 people; some even thought it was a nuclear test by the Americans.

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