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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.
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.
An operation to recover it from the lake began on 10 September 2013, [18] and concluded on 16 October 2013, with the raising of the rock with the mass of 540 kg (1,190 lb). [7] It was examined by scientists and handed over to the local authorities, [19] [20] who put it on display at the Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local Lore.
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 ...
Most values for the 1930 Curuçá River event put it well below 1 megaton, comparable to the Chelyabinsk meteor and Kamchatka superbolide. [12] [13] [14] The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization and modern technology has improved multiple detection of airbursts with energy yield 1–2 kilotons every year within the last decade. [15]
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.
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
[100] [101] The Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to have caused over $30 million in damage. [102] [103] It is the largest recorded object to have encountered the Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event. [104] [105] 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 ...