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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 Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NASAIt was a typical February morning in Chelyabinsk, a large city sitting in the shadows of Russia’s Ural mountains. People bundled ...
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.
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.
Russian Machine Never Breaks (RMNB) is a credentialed Washington, D.C. area hockey blog that covers professional ice hockey.Created in 2009, RMNB received local and national media attention when it was the first U.S. media outlet to cover the 2013 Russian meteor event in the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
February 13: At least five people were killed when a plane carrying football fans attempted an emergency landing and caught fire in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. [21] February 15: A Chelyabinsk meteor broke up in the vicinity of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. According to Chelyabinsk's health department, around 1,200 people were ...
An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last ... and exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013, releasing more energy than 30 ...