If a Meteor Shower is big enough you might think all the stars are falling from Heaven.

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First, civilization is collapsing around him as most humans have been turned blind after watching an alien meteor shower.

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The space agency said observers at latitudes north of 51 degrees south should be able to see the meteor shower.

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One Russian politician said the event was not a meteor shower but a US weapons test, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

BBC: Meteorites injure hundreds in central Russia

Ad a Meteor Shower like the 13 and 14 of December of 2012, it might go through or bump into one of them?

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Friday's Chelyabinsk meteor shower comes on the same day that a hefty asteroid is due to charge past the Earth at a pretty close range, in space terms.

CNN: Russian meteor shower causes blast; hundreds injured

Sunday's eye-catching event occurred at the height of the annual Lyrid meteor shower, which happens every April as Earth plows through the dust and debris trailing a comet called Thatcher.

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After a surprising meteor shower sent meteorites crashing on sonic speeds in the Ural mountains of Russia, injuring thousands, the Russian military said Wednesday it will develop technology to shoot them down before the hit Earth.

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That meteor shower was a bust.

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"You can see a few almost every clear dark night if you look long enough, but periodically the Earth passes through a dense swarm of these particles which have only recently come from their parent comet, giving what we call a meteor shower, " he said.

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