Here’s the evidence:

I got a problem with all this.  Firsties, I don’t believe there are aliens with super technology floating around Earth’s atmosphere.  Just call it a hunch.  Secondies, even if they were, shooting it down where they did probably caused more human damage than if they had just let hit a little farther in Siberia, or possibly even the ocean.  It wasn’t really that big of a deal.  If they were smart enough to fly all over the universe to hang out discretely, they’re smart enough to know that it wasn’t that big of a threat.

Given that, the only option left was the Russians “intercepting” it, which the Russian government actually did say they had done.  The Russians do claim to have the fastest missile on Earth right now, the BrahMos.  It travels up to Mach 3.0 supposedly.  Pretty dang impressive huh?  The meteor would have been traveling at about Mach 11 and they would have had about 20 seconds to launch and hit it.  That’s all the warning the world got.

Do the math.