A man in Moscow looks at a computer screen displaying a picture reportedly taken in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, showing the trail of a falling object above a residential area of the city.
Chelyabinsk Governor Mikhail Yurevich: "Our main task now is to preserve the heat in offices and homes where windows were shatteted, to prevent the heating system from freezing."
A couple of good resources on the location of nuclear facilities near the meteor strike in Russia.
# Here is a small map from PBS that includes a good overview of what the facilities are used for
# The FInancial Times as a Google map with pins of nuclear sites
# Greenpeace (in Russian) has a detailed map of the sites as well
First video we've found from a dashcam in the Qostanai region of northern Kazakhstan:
On the terminology -- meteor vs meteorite -- via NASA:
Meteor -- Any of the small particles of matter in the solar system that are directly observable only by their incandescence from frictional heating on entry into the atmosphere.
Meteorite -- A meteor that reaches the surface of the earth without being completely vaporized.
So, if the object is visible, it is a meteor. When and if it makes physical contact with the Earth it becomes a meteorite. It looks like most of the damage was caused simply by the shockwave and pure energy of the thing in the atmosphere, which would mean it is damage from the "meteor." There are some pics of a building up in smoke that looks like it was actually hit by an object, so that would be damage caused by a "meteorite."
This factory/warehouse door never had a chance:
Black smoke rises from a factory following sightings of a falling object in the sky in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk (photo by RIA Novosti):
Check out the driver's reaction to the blast of light. Plus the camera picks up the meteorite quite well -- embedding was disabled, so you need to view it on YouTube
