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Russian skyfall

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The recent entry of a 20-metre-wide celestial rock into Earth's atmosphere offered both a spectacular show and a source of invaluable data that advance our understanding of high-velocity impacts. See Letters p.235 & p.238

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  1. Natalia Artemieva is in the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA, and at the Institute for Geosphere Dynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.,

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