A Meteor More Powerful Than 10 Atomic Bombs Exploded Over the Bering Sea

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The December 18 fireball created the biggest airburst since the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013.

 

A meteor that exploded over the Bering Sea in December released 10 times the energy of an atomic bomb into the atmosphere. 

The asteroid, which was about 10 meters wide, disintegrated in the skies off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula on December 18. It unleashed 173 kilotons of energy, making it the second-biggest fireball in recent decades next to the 440-kiloton meteor that rocked the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013. 

Unlike the Chelyabinsk event, the Bering Sea fireball did not make a big news splash immediately after it impacted in part because it occurred over a remote and unpopulated area. Chelyabinsk, in contrast, is home to more than one million people, many of whom witnessed or were injured by the explosion. Some even captured the dazzling airburst on camera, which instantly enabled viewers around the world to share the sight of the blast.

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See also: More Evidence of a Comet Catastrophe 13,000 Years Ago, This Time From South America

Something BIG Just Hit The Ocean.. And NASA Is Looking For It

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Why has NASA announced that a meteor is NOT going to hit the Earth in September?

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream

 Internet buzz about a giant meteor that is going to strike our planet in September has become so intense that NASA has been forced to issue a statement publicly denying that it is going to happen. NASA insists that the agency knows of "no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth", and that "no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years". To be honest, NASA should perhaps hold off on making such bold statements concerning what will happen in the future considering the fact that the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 took them totally by surprise. In any event, what we do know is that our region of space is absolutely packed with meteors and asteroids. At this point, approximately 10,000 major near earth objects have been discovered by scientists, and about 10 percent of them are one kilometer or larger in size. If any of those big ones were to hit us, we would be looking at another Tunguska event or worse. Very large meteors have struck our planet before, and they will hit us again. It is only a matter of time.

But of most immediate concern to lots of people out there are the various theories that are floating around about September. The following is an excerpt from an article that appeared in a British news source just this week... 

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High Strangeness: SOTT Summary of UFOs and other paranormal stuff in 2013 and Fire in the Sky: SOTT Summary of Meteor Fireballs in 2013

Comment: The excellent sott.net still pushing the envelope on geopolitics, Earth changes, conspiracy and high strangeness. Some fine summaries on just how mysterious are world remains.

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Russian meteor shows 20,000,000 space rocks threaten Earth, scientists warn

 

RT

The meteor that shocked Russia in February when it exploded in the skies above Chelyabinsk shows us that the danger from space rocks smashing into Earth is much bigger than previously thought, an international group of scientists has concluded.

The 20-meter-wide meteor, which streaked across the sky and exploded into small pieces on Feb. 15, smashing windows, damaging buildings and damaging residents’ eyesight, could have caused much more damage if it had been more solid, three studies published in US journals Nature and Science on Wednesday found. 

After studying the area around the explosion and a wealth of video and other evidence over the last few months, NASA scientist Paul Chodas said the meteor blast showed that there were about 20 million space rocks whizzing around the solar system that could do serious damage to Earth – not the 3 million previously thought. That’s because it was considered that meteors had to be 30 meters and wider to cause huge devastation, but Chelyabinsk was actually a nearer miss than it seemed at the time, the scientists said. 

Hundreds of videos recorded by car dashboard cameras were analyzed, which helped a great deal to verify the exact trajectory, speed and the energy of the meteor explosion that shattered windows in more than 3,600 apartment blocks,  broke in doors and gates, in some cases collapsing roofs and knocking many pedestrians off their feet.

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