The meteor that struck Russia near the Ural Mountains earlier this month was a record-setter here on Earth, the largest meteor to impact our planet in 105 years. But it's actually run of the mill in cosmic terms, and there are millions more where it came from, according to several groups of scientists who have traced the Russian meteor back to its starting point in our solar system's main asteroid belt.
"There are millions more just like it."
"There are millions more just like it," said William Cooke, lead scientist at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, in a post about the meteor's origins on NASA's Science website published Tuesday. Cooke and other NASA scientists believe the Russian meteor came from the main asteroid belt, a...
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