The information of Rusia we have so far is:
- It left a thousand injured people.
-Its path was from northwest to southwest with an angle of 30° above the horizontal.
-The input speed is estimated at around 18 kilometers per second, i.e., over 64,000 miles per hour.
-The object was about 17 meters wide, with a mass of 7,000 to 10,000 tons when it hit the atmosphere.
-It exploded with a force of about 500 kilotons of TNT - about 30 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb - to about 15 to 20 kilometers above the ground.
Why NASA did not detect it?
Responsible for the detection of asteroids NASA explained that the meteorite appeared the day side of the Earth, so it could not be detected in advance.
The head of NASA's asteroid detection, Lindsey Johnson, explained that the meteorite of 17 meters in diameter that fell on Russia on Friday and caused a thousand wounded was not ahead because they appeared the day side of the Earth .
The specialist also said in Vienna that there is no celestial body that poses a potential lethal threat to mankind for hundreds of years away.Cuba
On February 16 an apparent meteorite fell on a town in central Cuba with an explosion that shook the houses, according to testimony presented by a television station on the island.
The testimony was vague on the day that the event would have occurred: some said it was Tuesday and others that occurred Wednesday.
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California
5 days ago San Francisco residents reported seeing a flash of light during the night of Friday, which some researchers described as a small piece of a meteorite that gained entry to Earth, according to media reports.
The incident occurred hours after a meteorite fell in the area of Russia.
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