Kaboom!

The meteor that the "ignorant press" is describing as "striking Russia did no such thing.  It was actually according to NASA  a tiny asteroid and it is unlikely that any fragments made it to earth, having long since vaporized at the projected atmospheric entry speed of 40,000 MPH which is considerably more than the speed of sound but only a little over one-fifth the speed of light for any conspiracy theorists who think we have been thrust into another dimension, etc.

Some of the eyewitness accounts are honest (and good for that reason) like the person who said "it looked like the sun landed over there somewhere..".   Another described it as a very large explosion that followed by smaller explosions for 20 or 30 minutes.

From PBS:

Watch Meteor Explosion of Atomic Strength Injures 1,000 in Russia on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.