Kamchatka meteor
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kamchatka-meteor-236-2013139
title:
Kamchatka meteor
text:
The Kamchatka meteor was a meteor that exploded in an air burst off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on 18 December 2018. At around midday, local time, an asteroid roughly 10 meters in diameter entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32.0 km/s (72,000 mph), with a TNT equivalent energy of 173 kilotons, more than 10 times the energy of the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The object entered at a steep angle of 7 degrees, close to the zenith, terminating in an
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
2018 impact event off eastern Russia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_meteor
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date modified:
2024-02-06T12:29:21Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Kamchatka_superbolide_smoketrail.gif","width":1800,"height":1800}
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13
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15