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The event Raisani describes is known as the Chelyabinsk meteor, which began as an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 13, 2013, at approximately 60 ft. in diameter and weighing 10,000 ...
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. ... It was the most powerful asteroid strike in more than 100 years, and ...
99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN 4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object, 450 metres (1,480 ft) by 170 metres (560 ft) in size, [3] that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability of 2.7% that it would hit Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029.
Asteroid designation Date & time (UTC) of discovery Discoverer Estimated size Abs. mag. Date & time (UTC) of impact Warning time Location of impact Airburst altitude Energy Method of impact detection Reference 2008 TC 3: 2008-10-06 06:39 Mt. Lemmon Survey: 3.8–4.4 m (12–14 ft) 30.72: 2008-10-07 02:45 20:05: 20.9 N, 31.8 E Nubian Desert in ...
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA; Earth Impact Database (EID) maintained by the Planetary and Space Science Centre (PASSC), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
A roughly 1-meter asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 12:39 p.m. ET, according to the European Space Agency.
The Decorah crater, also called the Decorah impact structure, is a possible impact crater located on the east side of the city of Decorah in Iowa, United States. It is thought to have been caused by a meteor about 200 metres (660 ft) wide which struck during the Middle Ordovician Period, circa 470 million years ago.
The Earth will be hit by a tiny asteroid today, astronomers have said. But the tiny asteroid – which is roughly one metre in size – will burn up in the atmosphere as it arrives. That means it ...