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NYT ..

It hit on the same day that astronomers were watching another larger rock miss Earth by just 17,200 miles, and experts scrambled to understand the two rare cosmic events. Some initially speculated that Earth was passing through a swarm of asteroids, but the Russian meteor came from the other direction. “There is no relation there,” said Paul Chodas, a scientist with NASA’s Near Earth Object Program. “It seems like we’re in a cosmic shooting gallery here. There were two very rare events happening on the same day. Pure coincidence.” .. “This is the largest recorded event since the 1908 Tunguska event,” Dr. Chodas said. On June 30, 1908, the explosion of a meteor, believed to be an asteroid, flattened millions of trees over 800 square miles in a remote, largely unhabited area of central Siberia about 1,200 miles away from Friday’s event

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