Turns out that airbursts are much more common than previous suspected. The recent Russian meteor did lots of damage (broken windows, collapsing weak structures) without leaving a big crater.
/johnny
It has long been known that it was not a meteor; absolutely no fragments. One long held idea is that it was an ice comet airburst which seems to make a lot of sense.
Turns out that a meteor doesn’t have to actually hit the ground to cause lots of damage. And airburst of a meteor can cause that damage without leaving a crater.
The damage caused by the meteor over Russia a few years ago proved that.
/laplata
“Turns out that airbursts are much more common than previous suspected.”
Only to the idiots in universities that don’t get out much. NORAD has tracked countless airbursts since they first started tracking objects from space. Most are small, maybe could level a house or a city block, but a few could level a city.
Sounds like the most plausible explanation.