Discovery Science recently announced an exclusive and unprecedented look at the recent Russian meteor explosion with FIRE IN THE SKY: A DAILY PLANET SPECIAL.
The special debuts Saturday, March 9 at 9:30 p.m. on Discovery Science. Encores on Sunday, March 10 at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 13 at 9:30 p.m., Thursday, March 14 at 5:30 p.m. and Friday, March 15 at 11:30 a.m.
On the morning of February 15th, a meteor weighing nearly 11 tons burst into the atmosphere over the Russian mountain city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles from the center of Moscow, with the power equal to that of an atomic bomb, at a speed of almost 34,000 miles per hour. The intense flash of light and intensity was recorded by bystanders in nations hundreds of miles away, creating sonic blasts and tremendous shock waves and leaving smashed windows, collapsed roofs and injured nearly 1000 people in the aftermath.