When did the asteroid hit Russia?
15 February 2013
Chelyabinsk meteor
| Play media (image link) Meteor fireball seen from Kamensk-Uralsky where it was still dawn, in an oblast north of Chelyabinsk Location of the meteor | |
|---|---|
| Date | 15 February 2013 |
| Also known as | Chelyabinsk meteorite |
| Cause | Meteor air burst |
| Non-fatal injuries | 1,491 indirect injuries |
When did the meteor hit Siberia?
30 June 1908
Tunguska event
| Trees knocked over by the Tunguska blast. Photograph from the Soviet Academy of Science 1927 expedition led by Leonid Kulik. | |
|---|---|
| Date | 30 June 1908 |
| Time | 07:17 |
| Location | Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Siberia, Russian Empire |
| Coordinates | 60°53′09″N 101°53′40″ECoordinates: 60°53′09″N 101°53′40″E |
Is the meteorite that hit Russia a meteor?
Russian space agency Roskosmos has confirmed the object that crashed in the Chelyabinsk region is a meteorite: “According to preliminary estimates, this space object is of non-technogenic origin and qualifies as a meteorite.
When did the Chelyabinsk meteor hit the Earth?
The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere and blew apart over Chelyabinsk at 10:20 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (03:20:26 GMT on Feb. 15). The meteor briefly outshined the sun during the event, which occurred just hours before a larger space rock — the 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 — zoomed by Earth in an extremely close flyby.
How big was the meteor that hit Earth in March 2013?
On 1 March 2013 NASA published a detailed synopsis of the event, stating that at peak brightness (at 09:20:33 local time), the meteor was 23.3 km high, located at 54.8°N, 61.1°E. At that time it was travelling at about 18.6 kilometres per second (67,000 km/h; 42,000 mph) —almost 60 times the speed of sound.
When does an asteroid reach the ground it is called a meteor?
Illustrating all “phases”, from atmospheric entry to explosion. The visible phenomenon due to the passage of an asteroid or meteoroid through the atmosphere is called a meteor. If the object reaches the ground, then it is called a meteorite.