As people heading to work in the city of Chelyabinsk, a meteor streaked across the sky traveling over 19 miles a second, then exploding in a tremendous blast that injured over 500 people on the ground.
North Korea claims to have detonated a nuclear device this week in an underground test. Nuclear experts around the world concur that the test took place and that the device had a 6-7 kiloton yield.
After an investigation begun last July 23 of 2012, when a report came into the Alaska State Troopers of a Sitka Black-tailed deer caught in a snare near South Point Higgins Road in Ketchikan, the investigation concluded with charges being filed on February 12th.
On February 15th, 2013, the astroid dubbed 2012 DA14 will pass by the earth inside the geosynchronus orbits of weather and communications satellites. Although it flies by the planet very close, there is no chance that the asteroid could impact the planet.