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Dashboard cameras captured video of a meteor striking Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013.
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The Russia incident was a warning.
On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.