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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.
Meteor over Chelyabinsk. This very bright fireball is also known as a superbolide. Date: Taken on 15 February 2013: Source: This file was derived from: Взрыв метеорита над Челябинском 15 02 2013 avi-iCawTYPtehk.ogv: Author: Aleksandr Ivanov, Cropping and conversion to gif: Hike395
The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms. Researchers assessed ...
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The Chelyabinsk meteor impacted Earth in 2013 with no prior warning. A list of known Near-Earth asteroid close approaches less than 1 lunar distance (384,400 km or 0.00257 AU) from Earth in 2013. [note 1] Rows highlighted red indicate objects which were not discovered until after closest approach
Frederic Edwin Church, The Meteor of 1860. In 2010, it was determined to be an Earth-grazing meteor procession. [1] An Earth-grazing fireball (or Earth grazer) [2] is a fireball, a very bright meteor that enters Earth’s atmosphere and leaves again. Some fragments may impact Earth as meteorites, if