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 There were no reports of damage but the ball of fire raised
eyebrows after a meteorite crashed to Earth near the Russian city of
Chelyabinsk in February 2013, shattering windows, damaging buildings
and injuring more than 1,200 people.
Footage from a dashboard camera in a car on a snow-lined road in the
Murmansk region, north of the Arctic Circle, showed a bright ball
streaking diagonally toward Earth, pulsating twice and disappearing
behind a building.
The time was 2:14 a.m. on Sunday (2214 GMT on Saturday).
Russia's TV Tsentr television said it was part of the annual Lyrid
meteor shower and disintegrated before it could hit the ground.
(Writing by Steve Gutterman; editing by Tom Heneghan)
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