«Breaking News» A 1,500 TON meteor exploded over Earth with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb

A meteor exploded over Earth in December with ten times the force of the atomic bomb which decimated the city of Hiroshima in World War Two.  

It took place on 23:50 GMT on 18 December 2018 over the Bering Sea - between Russia and Alaska.

It is believed to be the second largest meteor explosion in the last 30 years, and the biggest since the high-profile Chelyabinsk fireball of 2013.  

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Chelyabinsk (top centre-right) and this event (top far-right) are clearly obvious on this graphic which reveals meteor fireballs since 1988 around the world. It categorises them based on  size and energy of their explosion

Meteor explosions are common but large events are rare, with ones this big only occurring a handful of times a century. 

It measures 30ft (ten metres) wide, weighed more than 1,500 tons and released the same amount of energy as 173 kilotons of TNT.

Peter Brown at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, made the discovery and posted his findings on Twitter. 

He said: 'Airburst over Bering Sea (58.6N, 174.2W) on Dec 18, 2018 @ 2350 UT detected by >16 infrasound stations worldwide. Based on periods in excess of 10 sec, minimum yield is tens of kT range - could be ~100 kT. Probably most energetic fireball since #chelyabinsk'

The explosion occurred around mid-day local time as the space rock barrelled towards Earth at a steep seven degrees and blew up 16miles (25.6km) above the surface. 

Kelly Fast, near-Earth objects observations programme manager at NASA, discussed the event at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, near Houston, Texas. 

'That was 40 per cent the energy release of Chelyabinsk, but it was over the Bering Sea so it didn't have the same type of effect or show up in the news,' the BBC reports. 

'That's another thing we have in our defence, there's plenty of water on the planet.'

It was detected by military satellites which automatically informed NASA, but scientists outside these organisations have only recently assessed the data.  

It is only outdone in size and intensity by the Chelyabinsk meteor which crashed into Russia in February was part of a 656-foot wide asteroid called 2011 EO40.

Peter Brown at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, made the discovery and posted his findings on Twitter 

This space rock measured 30ft (ten metres) wide, weighed more than 1,500 tons and released the same amount of energy as 173 kilotons of TNT

The explosion occurred around mid-day local time as the space rock barrelled towards Earth at a steep seven degrees and blew up 16miles (25.6km) above the surface

WHAT WAS THE CHELYABINSK METEOR STRIKE?

A meteor that blazed across southern Ural Mountain range in February 2013 was the largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century, after the Tunguska event of 1908.

More than 1,600 people were injured by the shock wave from the explosion, estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs, as it landed near the city of Chelyabinsk.

The fireball measuring 18 meters across, screamed into Earth's atmosphere at 41,600 mph. 

Much of the meteor landed in a local lake called Chebarkul.

Other than the latest find, scientists have already uncovered more than 12 pieces from Lake Chebarkul since the February 15 incident. However, only five of them turned out being real.

What did they find in the meteorites?

Analysis of recovered Chelyabinsk meteorites revealed an unusual form of jadeite entombed inside glassy materials known as shock veins, which form after rock crashes, melts and re-solidifies.

By calculating the rate at which the jadeite must have solidified, the team were able to determine that the asteroid formed after a collision.

Jadeite, which is one of the minerals in the gemstone jade, forms only under extreme pressure and high temperature.

The form of jadeite found in the Chelyabinsk meteorites indicates that the asteroid's parent body hit another asteroid that was at least 150 metres (490ft) in diameter.

The fireball measuring 18 meters across, screamed into Earth's atmosphere at 41,600 mph. 

NASA satellites made the unprecedented measurements of the meteor which is thought to have released 30 times more energy than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

Spanish astrophysicists analysed fragments of the meteor that were scattered across the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, where the meteor landed, and claim it came from the large Apollo asteroid that regularly crosses passed Earth as it orbits the sun.

Meteor explosions are common but large events are rare, with ones this big only occurring a handful of times a century. Chelyabinsk fireball broke into several chunks on entry t Earth's atmosphere and one weighed more than a tonne 

They added that the piece may have broken off because of the stress caused by the gravitational pull of the planets and the sun, or could have been caused by the asteroid hitting into something else during its orbit. 

The meteorite broke up into multiple pieces as it entered the atmosphere, scattering space debris and creating a shock wave estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

Live footage on Russian TV showed a team pull out a 1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake after first wrapping it in a special casing while it was still underwater.

The rock broke up into at least three large pieces as scientists began lifting it from the ground with the help of levers and ropes.

The scale itself broke the moment it hit the 570-kilogram (1,255-pound) mark.

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Main photo article A meteor exploded over Earth in December with ten times the force of the atomic bomb which decimated the city of Hiroshima in World War Two.  
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