City-killer asteroid may be hurtling towards Earth right NOW…& we have no way to detect it, space agency chiefs warn
A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4, which ...
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Chelyabinsk meteorite search may help in investigating Tunguska Event
CHELYABINSK, February 13. /TASS/. Information and experience, obtained during the recent search of the meteorite that exploded above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, may help scientists in solving ...
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The last major asteroid to hit Earth destroyed 500 square kilometers — and it could have been much worse
The Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia with a force of 40 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. Damage stretched for 500 square kilometers, destroying 7,200 building and injuring over 1,400 people in its ...
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Events similar to Chelyabinsk meteor occur in Russia every 20-50 years — scientist
Badyukov, who headed the institute’s expedition to the Chelyabinsk meteorite’s landing site, said that about one hundred of its fragments have been recovered to date, weighing 2-3 kilograms in ...
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Russian meteor: 17 metres wide, weighed 10.000 tons and crashed at 64.373 km/h says NASA
The meteor that exploded over Russia Friday was slightly larger than previously thought and more powerful, too, NASA scientists say. The explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk, on Friday injured ...
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Giant meteorite rock recovered from Russian lake
Part of a giant meteorite from outer space has been safely recovered from a Russian lake, online news website RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. As scuba divers tried to raise the rock from the ...