Meteorite hits the ground and explodes the Hiroshima bomb
Meteorite hits the ground and explodes the Hiroshima bomb
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(The effects of the meteorite fire explosion on Chelyabinsk (getty) |
Meteorite hits the ground and explodes the Hiroshima bomb
An enormous meteorite exploded in the air at an altitude of 620 miles (1000 km) off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month, without being almost unnoticed. The total explosion, which took place on February 6 at 14:00 GMT force, the equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT, which is the same amount used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. This was the biggest event of its kind Since February 2013, after the explosion of shooting stars of fire on Chelyabinsk, Russia, which left more than 1,600 wounded. Where 18 meters meteorite Chelyabinsk reaches, and roars at a speed of 41,600 miles per hour in the atmosphere of the Earth, before they collide in a local lake called Chebarkul, having behind much debris, a magnitude Of 500,000 tons of TNT severe explosion equivalent to the power of 40 Khiroshama bomb. According to Phil Plate, the owner of a blog Sla
According to the "Daily Mail" came the report of an elephant on the last meteor: "This was a low impact for that we did not hear only after weeks" and added: "If the meteorite fell on A populated area, shaken some of the windows and much panicked probably, but I do not think that causing real damage, "likely to be a meteor show five to seven meters, the strength of the explosion. It is believed that the explosion took place about 18 miles (30 kilometers) over the Atlantic Ocean, 6 miles above the troposphere, where this region is experiencing similar phenomena still. It is unlikely that the fireball had been seen this explosion, but taken by the army, which records the air of explosions. Plate commented: "These incidents are located several times a year, most of which we do not see the explosion should be much more to be really worrying
Ron alone agency NASA, the first to chirp on the incident after the agency published an article on its website. NASA plotted on 12992 objects close to the Earth rotates in the solar system. It was ranked on the 1607 of them, in "car asteroids that are potentially dangerous box