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Thursday, August 15, 2013

A Billion Times More Powerful Than Atom Bomb: NASA Tracks Chelyabinsk Meteor Plume As It Circles Around the World in Four Days

Atmospheric physicist Nick Gorkavyi missed witnessing an event of the century last winter when a meteor exploded over his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia. From Greenbelt, Md., however, NASA's Gorkavyi and colleagues witnessed a never-before-seen view of the atmospheric aftermath of the explosion. A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded 14 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013.



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