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The meteor and meteorite are named after Chelyabinsk Oblast, over which the meteor exploded. An initial proposal was to name the meteorite after Lake Chebarkul , where one of its major fragments impacted and made a 6-metre-wide (20 ft) hole in the frozen lake surface.
The Chelyabinsk meteor is also the only meteor confirmed to have resulted in injuries. No deaths were reported. The earlier-predicted and well-publicized close approach of a larger asteroid on the same day, the roughly 30 m (100 ft) 367943 Duende , occurred about 16 hours later; the very different orbits of the two objects showed they were ...
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 ...
NASA visualization and narration of the Chelyabinsk meteor air burst. A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides, with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides.
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. The ...
[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 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor had a total kinetic energy prior to impact of about 0.5 megatons, thus, regardless of impact probability, it would only rate 0 on the Torino scale - despite breaking over 3600 windows and injuring around 1500 people. [14]
Reason: "Meteor" is an atmospheric effect, it was much larger than depicted. The body (before entering the atmosphere) must be called " meteoroid ". This file has been superseded by Meteoroid size comparison.svg .