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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.
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 ...
Date: 15 February 2013; 11 years ago (): Time: 09:20:29 YEKT (): Location: Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia: Coordinates: 1]: Also known as: Chelyabinsk meteorite [2]: Cause: Meteor air burst: Non-fatal injuries: 1,491 indirect injuries [3]: Property damage: Over 7,200 [4] buildings damaged, collapsed factory roof, shattered windows, $33 million (2013 USD) lost [5]: The Chelyabinsk meteor ...
The meteor and meteorite are named after Chelyabinsk Oblast, ... At an altitude of about 23.3 km (14.5 miles) the body exploded in a meteor air burst. [12]
[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 ...
In 2009, papers by Kerr [107] and Kennett [108] in the journal Science asserted that nanodiamonds were evidence for a swarm of carbonaceous chondrites or comet fragments from air burst(s) or impact(s) that set parts of North America on fire, caused the extinction of most of the megafauna in North America, and led to the demise of the Clovis ...
Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event [1] which is held on June 30, the anniversary of the Tunguska event in 1908 when a meteor air burst levelled about 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest in Siberia, Russia.
The Kamchatka meteor was a meteor that exploded in an air burst off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on 18 December 2018. [3] At around midday, local time, [4] an asteroid roughly 10 meters in diameter entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32.0 km/s (72,000 mph), with a TNT equivalent energy of 173 kilotons, more than 10 times the energy of the Little Boy bomb dropped ...