Roscosmos, Russia's space agency said that it came in at over nineteen miles per second and could be seen over three hundred miles away.
It exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, sending shrapnel and a shock wave which damaged buildings and shattered windows.
Most of the injuries were from broken glass.
Officials told people not to panic, that it wasn't an attack.
Objects from space regularly hit the earth, but most burn up in the upper atmosphere.
Scientists are still trying to figure out just how big this one was and they're trying to determine what caused it to explode in such a dramatic fashion.
A series of dash cams show the meteorite coming in:
CCTV shows the force of the shock wave:
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