nbc's duncan golestoni has the report. >> reporter: astonishing pictures showing the meteorite streaking across the early morning size, the size constituented to be about 10 tons and the speed 33,000 miles per hour. it was seen and felt on the ground as wointsds shattered as the roof of a factory collapsed. all that damage thought to be caused by the sonic boom. >> much smaller meteorites. they happened -- they happen hundreds of times every year, but only several times a year are they actually seen to fall by people, and very rarely do they do any damage. >> reporter: nearly 1,000 people have been injured, mostly hurt by flying glass. the meteor hit on the same day that an asteroid named 2012-da-14 makes the closest recorded path of an asteroid to earth, closer than some satellites. the european spacegency said its experts have determined there was no connection between the two, just cosmic coincidence. nbc news, london. >>> well, nbc news correspondent tom costello joins us with more on all that activity in the skies. you talked to somebody in russia who experienced this thing today? >