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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 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]
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
The meteor which exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 released the energy of 30 atomic bombs, shaking the ground, damaging buildings, and injuring over 1,500 people. ...
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Chelyabinsk meteor, about ~20 meters in diameter. [82] Largest meteor airburst known since Tunguska in 1908. More than a ton of fragments found, one large piece called the Chelyabinsk meteorite. 2013, Apr 21 [15] South America: Argentina: 2.5 kilotonnes of TNT (10 TJ) 40.7 km (25.3 mi)
When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an unexpected silver lining for life.
The Kamchatka superbolide is estimated to have had a mass of roughly 1600 tons, and a diameter of 9 to 14 meters depending on its density, making it the third largest asteroid to impact Earth since 1900, after the Chelyabinsk meteor and the Tunguska event. The fireball exploded in an airburst 25.6 kilometres (15.9 mi) above Earth's surface.