Mother Nature has ways to remind us who's boss.
Two deadly missiles from deep space--one nearly as long as a football field--got our rapt attention this week.
The larger asteroid came within 17,000 miles of Earth, close enough to endanger several weather satellites.
Residents in a remote part of Russia were treated to a massive sonic boom and pelted with debris as the much smaller meteorite exploded after heating up while entering the atmosphere.
Several thousand Ruskies were injured by flying glass and other objects in the explosion's resulting pressure wave.
Capping carbon emissions may help stem climate-change disasters, but what will keep a large meteorite from wiping out today's U.S. Congress and other dinosaurs? (17 FEBRUARY 2013)
