Questão de Língua Inglesa

Língua Estrangeira • 01 Russia cleans up after meteor blast injures more than 02 1,000 03 CHELYABINSK, Russia — Residents of Chelyabinsk, an 04 industrial city 1,500 km (950 miles) east of Moscow, 05 heard an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a 06 shockwave that blew out windows and damaged the 07 wall and roof of a zinc plant. A fireball traveling at a 08 speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second according to 09 Russian space agency Roscosmos, blazed across the 10 horizon, leaving a long white trail visible as far as 200 11 km (125 miles) away. 12 NASA estimated the meteor was 55 feet across 13 before entering Earth's atmosphere and weighed about 14 10,000 tons. It exploded miles above Earth, releasing 15 nearly 500 kilotons of energy - about 30 times the size of 16 the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of 17 Hiroshima in World War Two, NASA added. "We would 18 expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 19 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's 20 Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion 21 Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "When you have a 22 fireball of this size we would expect a large number of 23 meteorites to reach the surface and in this case there 24 were probably some large ones." 25 Divers searched a lake near the city of 26 Chelyabinsk, where a hole several feet wide had 27 opened in the ice, but had so far failed to find any large 28 fragments, officials said. Search teams said they had 29 found small objects up to about 1 cm (half-an-inch) wide 30 that might be fragments of a meteorite, but no larger 31 pieces. 32 The Chelyabinsk regional governor said the 33 strike caused about 1 billion roubles ($33 million) worth 34 of damage. Life in the city had largely returned to normal 35 by Saturday although 50 people were still in hospital. 36 Officials said more than 1,200 people were injured, 37 mostly by flying glass. 38 Repair work had to be done quickly because of 39 the freezing temperatures, which sank close to -20 40 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit) at night. Emergencies 41 Minister Vladimir Puchkov inspected the damage after 42 President Vladimir Putin sent him to the region. His 43 ministry is under pressure to clean up fast following 43 criticism over the failure to issue warnings in time before 44 fatal flooding in southern Russia last summer and over 45 its handling of forest fires in 2010. (This text was adapted from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-02-16/news/chi-russiameteorite-20130215_1_meteor-explosion-site-fireball)