Chelyabinsk meteor
id:
chelyabinsk-meteor-206-16569228
title:
Chelyabinsk meteor
text:
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT. It was caused by an approximately 18 m (59 ft) diameter, 9,100-tonne (10,000-short-ton) near-Earth asteroid that entered the atmosphere at a shallow 18.3 ± 0.4 degree angle with a speed relative to Earth of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second. The light from the meteor was briefly brighter than the Sun, visible as far as 100 km (60 mi) away. It
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Near-Earth asteroid that fell over Russia in 2013
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
date created:
2013-02-15T06:58:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:31:56Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16