This is the biggest space story of the year simply because of the instant raising of awareness it engendered, even in the most non-scientific communities, that we (and our planet) are part of a much larger and very active existence.
"The Chelyabinsk airburst was the largest since Tunguska in 1908, but
unlike that and other historic events, the strike was recorded by a full
suite of modern technology: satellites photographed the meteor, security and personal video cameras filmed the path
across the sky, and sensors picked up infrasound waves as lumps hit the
ground..."
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