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A brilliant fireball appeared in the sky. Then there was a loud explosion as the meteor broke apart. [30] 1959, Nov 24 Asia: Azerbaijan: Yardymly bolide. A bright object that illuminated the area for almost 3,000 square km before it shattered into pieces with a thunderous noise. [31] [32]
Date: 30 June 1908; 116 years ago (): Time: 07:17: Location: Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire: Coordinates: 1]: Cause: Probable meteor air burst of small asteroid or comet: Outcome: Flattened 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest Devastation to local plants and animals: Deaths: Up to 3 possible [2]: Property damage: A few damaged buildings: The Tunguska event was a ...
The hypocentre of the explosion was to the south of Chelyabinsk, in Yemanzhelinsk and Yuzhnouralsk. Due to the height of the air burst, the atmosphere absorbed most of the explosion's energy. [41] The explosion's blast wave first reached Chelyabinsk and environs between less than 2 minutes 23 seconds [citation needed] and 2 minutes 57 seconds ...
A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was ... spotted by astronomers just hours before its stunning explosion over Canada, was only about the size of a ...
A meteor exploded over New York City in the middle of the day, according to Nasa and local reports.. At around 11.17am local eastern time, a fireball appears to have flown over Manhattan and then ...
A fireball traveling at 42,000 miles per hour streaked across the night sky above Vermont on Sunday night, creating a spectacular light show. The meteor "fragmented so violently," it shook ...
The Kamchatka meteor was a meteor that exploded in an air burst off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on 18 December 2018. [3] At around midday, local time, [4] an asteroid roughly 10 meters in diameter entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32.0 km/s (72,000 mph), with a TNT equivalent energy of 173 kilotons, more than 10 times the energy of the Little Boy bomb dropped ...
A suspected meteorite explosion reportedly lit up the night sky over Murmansk, a city in northwestern Russia, on April 19th. One motorist captured the spectacular scene that unfolded at about 2 a ...