Click the headline above or CLICK HERE to view AP photos posted online, Miami Herald of the Meteor that exploded over Russia on Friday, 2/15/2013. 14 photos are posted of the event and aftermath.
The Russian meteor event was quite a coincidence, given that Astronomers on Friday
had their eyes skyward on asteroid 2012 DA14. Thankfully, this event was
nowhere near the 1908 Tunguska event.
See (yes) FOX NEWS - Russian
meteor blast recalls massive 1908 'Tunguska event' reporting that the
site of Friday's spectacular, 10-ton meteor blast was just 3,000 miles west of
Tunguska, which was the site of the largest-ever recorded explosion of a space
object plunging to Earth:
That 1908 blast, which was later
attributed to a comet or asteroid fragment, is generally estimated to have been
about 10 megatons. No injuries were reported, but some 80 million trees over
830 square miles were leveled in the blast known as the “Tunguska event.”
The meteor certainly peaks some interest in many who formerly did not concern
themselves with the possibility, or probability of Earth impacts during our
lifetime. See Miami Herald: Earth
remains safe for now – but what about next asteroid? and Asteroid
buzzes, misses Earth _ unlike meteor
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