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The object exploded in a meteor air burst over Chelyabinsk Oblast, at a height of about 30 km (18 mi; 97,000 ft). [6] The explosion generated a bright flash, producing a hot cloud of dust and gas that penetrated to 26 km (86,000 ft), and many surviving small fragmentary meteorites.
Date: 30 June 1908; 116 years ago (): Time: 07:17: Location: Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire: Coordinates: 1]: Cause: Probable meteor air burst of small asteroid or comet: Outcome: Flattened 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest Devastation to local plants and animals: Deaths: Up to 3 possible [2]: Property damage: A few damaged buildings: The Tunguska event was a ...
The most powerful meteor air burst in the modern era was the 1908 Tunguska event. During this event a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m (160–200 ft) in size [1] [2]: p. 178 exploded at an altitude of 5–10 km (16,000–33,000 ft) over a sparsely populated forest in Siberia.
A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the ... hours before its stunning explosion over Canada, was only about ... rock heading towards the Earth, they ...
The asteroid had an approximate size of 18 m (59 ft) and a mass of about 9,100 t (10,000 short tons) before it entered the denser parts of Earth's atmosphere and started to ablate. [12] At an altitude of about 23.3 km (14.5 miles) the body exploded in a meteor air burst . [ 12 ]
2024 XA 1, formerly designated as C0WEPC5, is a small meteoroid that fell over eastern Siberia near the city of Olekminsk on 3 December 2024, 16:15 GMT, around 1,000 kilometers east of the Tunguska event impact location. [4] [5] It is the eleventh impact event ever that was successfully predicted, and the fourth in 2024.
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected ... caused a spectacular fireball over the Philippines in September. ... The explosion of the meteor shook the ...
This is the incredible moment a meteor lights up the sky before exploding as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. The huge fireball hurtled across the sky in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on Feb. 12.