FAIRBORN -- A huge meteor exploded in the air over Central Russia Friday morning sending debris raining down on a town and leaving behind sound waves that shattered countless windows. Reports estimate 1,000 people were injured.
So could that happen here? We found a physics professor at Wright State, Jason Diebel, who says smaller meteorites, typically made of iron do pass our way, but we don't even notice them, "Most of the time when events like these happen, you know we see a streak of light, you know it's very faint in the night sky, most of the time in Dayton, you can't see it because we have too much background light, to be able to see something like this over a populated area, is an extreme rarity actually."
So could that happen here? We found a physics professor at Wright State, Jason Diebel, who says smaller meteorites, typically made of iron do pass our way, but we don't even notice them, "Most of the time when events like these happen, you know we see a streak of light, you know it's very faint in the night sky, most of the time in Dayton, you can't see it because we have too much background light, to be able to see something like this over a populated area, is an extreme rarity actually."