WASHINGTON – I’m starting a new tradition on the eve of 2014: Picking what I think is the top space-related story of the year. Sky Guy Greg Redfern’s Top Space Story for 2013 is: The Chelyabinsk ...
In 2013, a notably-sized meteor exploded over the sky in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shockwave from this event was so powerful that glass windows were shattered across six surrounding cities and at least ...
The risk of asteroid impacts like the meteor explosion that devastated a Russian city earlier this year may be 10 times greater than previously thought, several new studies on the meteor's origin and ...
“Three years have passed since the Chelyabinsk (Russia) great scare, and during this time more than two hundred research papers — 50 in the last year — related directly or indirectly to the ...
The latest analysis of the bollide that burst over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February suggests that the risk from such airbursts — which occur when friction in our atmosphere heats up a meteor — may be ...
On Feb. 15, 2013, Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, was preparing for a NASA TV segment on the flyby of ...
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 the ...
On Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor with an estimated diameter of 20 meters and an estimated mass of 12,000 to 13,000 metric tons entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded high over Russia’s Ural region, ...
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In February 2013, Russians near the city of Chelyabinsk got a huge surprise in the early morning: A chunk of asteroid 17 meters (50+ feet) across came screaming into the atmosphere over their heads, ...
When a massive asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2012, it injured more than 1,200 people and damaged hundreds of buildings. In the nine months since the asteroid ...
The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 was "a wake-up call," according to a UC Davis scientist who participated in analyzing the event. The meteor that exploded over ...