Fireball over Russia
Fireball over Russia
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On 15 Feb 2013, a very large fireball was reported over Chelyabinsk, Russia. Peter Brown from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, analyzed infrasound measurements of the event and deduced the following parameters:
Time of impact: 03:20:26 UT on 15-FEB-2013
Entry angle: 20 degree from surface
Entry velocity: below 20 km/s
Trajectory direction: North to South
Asteroid diameter before entry in the atmosphere: about 15 m
Kinetic energy: 500kt TNT equivalent (corresponding to 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb)
Explosion altitude: 15-25 km
The direction of the trajectory and the large distance in time indicate that the object was unrelated to asteroid 2012DA14, which had a very close flyby in the evening of the same day.