Russian Meteor released energy 30 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb!

The 17 meters meteorite that explote last Friday, left at least 1 thousand 2 hundred wounded, in the Russian province of Chelyabinsk, in the Ural Mountains, released energy of 500 kilotons, about thirty times the Hiroshima atomic bomb, according to the Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (NASA), said the agency Europa Press.

 

An event of this magnitude occurs once in 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas, program associate of near-Earth objects at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. "When a fireball is that size, many meteorites can reach the surface and is probably here already done several large," he said.

 

Infrasound data collected indicate that the fall of the meteorite, since its entry into the atmosphere until the breakup, lasted 32.5 seconds, and its signal was collected for 11 of the 45 monitoring stations located in 35 countries. Authorities of the Chelyabinsk region in the Urals, estimated at more than $ 30 million damage to property caused by the meteorite.

 

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