answer:I have only just woke up and have the tail end of the story, if it is a meteorite, then they are quite stupid for shooting it down, all you do is spread the damage it causes. A country with its own space program should know these things. I have to say, looking at the cloud it left and the damage, it was a likely meteorite, a little companion of the one passing by later. There is some guy on the news saying how it is 12 hours early, and how that is too much, that it must be coincidence, but on the cosmic scale, 12 hours is nothing, to me it is all related. We have a meteorite passing by tonight, very close to earth, it would be hard to imagine how this could be anything other than part of that same meteorite.