A meteor exploded over Russia in 2013 and injured 1,000 people with glass

A roughly 20-metre asteroid entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk and exploded with the force of dozens of Hiroshima bombs, far too high to leave a crater. Its shockwave arrived minutes later and shattered windows across the city; almost all the roughly 1,500 injuries were from flying glass, not the meteor itself.

— Wikipedia contributors, Chelyabinsk meteor — 15 February 2013

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