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The Chelyabinsk meteor (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, romanised: Chelyabinskiy meteorit) was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC).
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.
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. The ...
NASA visualization and narration of the Chelyabinsk meteor air burst. A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides, with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides.
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. ...
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
Perhaps the most dramatic of recent times was the Chelyabinsk meteor, which fell to Earth over Russia in 2013, injuring around 1,500 people, damaging thousands of buildings and causing tens of ...