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The American Space Agency has updated data on the celestial a body that fell in the Chelyabinsk region Foreigners call our “Chelyabinsk (aka Ural) car” “Russian meteorite” (Russia Meteor). NASA – US Space Agency – 15 more February, the day of the disaster, issued data on it. Then followed small refinements. And according to updated data, the body that fell into Chelyabinsk region, had a size of not 15 meters, but 17. Weight is not 7 thousand tons, and 10 thousand tons. Specialists increased by 30 kilotons and explosion power in the atmosphere. It amounted to approximately 500 kilotons. For comparison, the power of a nuclear charge exploded over Hiroshima was about 20 kilotons. Refined data was received. after processing information from infrasound tracking stations, located all over the world. The first Chelyabinsk event recorded a station in Alaska – this is about 6500 kilometers.
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NASA has mapped the zone of “defeat” – it may there are fragments of a car Photo: NASA According to experts, with the moment the “Russian meteorite” enters the Earth’s atmosphere before it The explosion took 32.5 seconds. – Similar events happen approximately every 100 years, said Paul Chodas of the division Near-Earth NASA (NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program). Experts once again emphasized that “Russian meteorite “was not associated with the asteroid 2012 DA14, which on the night of 15 on February 16th flew at a record close distance from Earth (27,000 km). The trajectories of their movement were completely different. “Russian meteorite “set a kind of record: after the Tunguska the meteorite that fell on Siberia in 1908, it is the largest.
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