• AP Photo/Chelyabinsk.ru
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    A meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Friday.

  • AP Photo/Nasha gazeta, www.ng.kz
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    A meteor streaked across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring scores of people. This is a frame grab made from a video captured with a dashboard camera on a highway in Russia. It was provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013.

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    People view a circular hole in the ice of Chebarkul Lake where a meteor reportedly struck the lake about 930 miles east of Moscow, Russia, Friday.

  • NASA/MSFC/Aaron Kingery
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    From NASA: "This image shows asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula, with the white box highlighting the asteroid's path. The image was taken using a 3" refractor equipped with a color CCD camera. The telescope is located at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia and is maintained and owned by iTelescope.net."

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    Astronaut Thomas H. Marshburn tweeted this photo from the International Space Station, writing, "Last night, Paris showed us why it's called the City of Light pic.twitter.com/r3u7IkST"

  • NASA Earth Observatory
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    In mid-January, a large landslide rumbled down the slopes of one of New Zealand's tallest mountains. The mountain lies within Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park and is part of the range dubbed the "Southern Alps." The slide is believed to be the largest in the area since 1991. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this view of the area on Feb. 5, two weeks after the landslide.

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    Gino formed as a tropical storm over the southern Indian Ocean on Feb. 11 and strengthened into a cyclone the next day. NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Gino on Feb. 13. At the time MODIS took this picture, Gino had both the spiral shape characteristic of strong storms, and a well-defined eye.

  • AP Photo/Dave Martin
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    The sun sets as the cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island, Ala., Thursday.

  • AP Photo/Kalin Hill
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    This photo provided by Kalin Hill of Houston shows passengers with makeshift tents on the deck of the stranded Carnival Triumph before it was towed to port.

  • AP Photo/Reed Saxon
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    Charlie Beljan misses a birdie putt on the 18th green as fog rolls in and darkness brings an end to the first round of the Northern Trust Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.