Large meteorite fell on a field near a small town in Latvia, creating a 20-meter crater. Nobody was hurt. Local farmers called 911 to let them know about "the flying fire." Scientists, dispatched to the scene, removed the meteorite to determine its composition.
The most striking fact here is that how the meteorite managed to hit Latvia, one of the smallest countries in the world. (This former Soviet republic of 2 million people is only 300 miles wide, i.e. much less than 1 percent of earth's surface.)
Nothing else interesting happened in Latvia lately.
UPDATE: Local residents managed to record the meteorite on their mobile camera (everyone in Latvia carries a mobile HD-camera.) This video has been broadcasted on Latvian news.
Video: Vitaly Ginzburg, Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Dies at 93
by Russia! Staff
Vitaly Ginzburg, a physics genius, whose career spanned 7 decades and included development of the hydrogen bomb warheads as well as the work on superconductivity, for which he shared a Nobel prize in 2003, died this week.
