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The event Raisani describes is known as the Chelyabinsk meteor, which began as an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 13, 2013, at approximately 60 ft. in diameter and weighing 10,000 ...
The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere.
The Chelyabinsk meteor is thought to be the biggest natural space object to enter Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, [23] [24] [25] and the only one confirmed to have resulted in many injuries, [26] [Note 1] although a small number of panic-related injuries occurred during the Great Madrid Meteor Event of 10 February 1896. [27]
It exploded over Chelyabinsk – the Russian city that would give the meteor its name – in a blast that was brighter than the Sun and shook with the energy of more than 30 atomic bombs.
[103] [104] The Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to have caused over $30 million in damage. [105] [106] It is the largest recorded object to have encountered the Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event. [107] [108] The meteor is estimated to have an initial diameter of 17–20 metres and a mass of roughly 10,000 tonnes. On 16 October 2013, a team ...
The longest night of the year will have an extra sparkle in the sky as the Ursid meteor shower peaks just hours after the December solstice. The December solstice marks the official start of ...
For comparison, the 1908 Tunguska event was caused by an object about 60–190 m (200–620 ft) in size, while the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, which injured thousands of people and damaged buildings when it generated a large airburst over Russia, was estimated to be just 20 m (66 ft) across.
21088 Chelyabinsk (provisional designation 1992 BL 2) is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter.It was discovered on 30 January 1992, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.