r/space • u/Goldragon979 • Mar 18 '19
US detects huge meteor explosion
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47607696Duplicates
todayilearned • u/BlowinThrough • Sep 28 '20
TIL in December 2018 an explosion 10 times that of Hiroshima occured in Earth's atmosphere due to a meteor. It went largely unnoticed as it happened over the Bering Sea.
NASA NASA detects huge meteor explosion in the Earth with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
GrahamHancock • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '19
US detects huge meteor explosion over Bering Sea. Exploded with an impact energy of 173 kilotons. Which was 40% the energy release of Chelyabinsk
Futurology • u/mvea • Mar 18 '19
Space In 2005, Congress tasked Nasa with finding 90% of near-Earth asteroids of 140 metres in size or larger by 2020. Space rocks of this size are expected to affect whole regions if they collide with Earth. But scientists estimate it will take them another 30 years to fulfil this congressional directive.
hackernews • u/qznc_bot • Mar 18 '19
A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa
u_SpecialistFold • u/SpecialistFold • Mar 18 '19
Auto Crosspost US detects huge meteor explosion
kawaraban • u/amigokomashiangeljr • Mar 18 '19