Meteor Research Papers
Description of the Event
In a concurrence that still has NASA specialists shaking their heads, a small asteroid completely unrelated to 2012 DA14 struck Earth only hours before the publicized event. The impactor flew unexpectedly, literally from the direction of the sun where no telescope could see it, and took everyone by surprise as the meteor speckled across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains.
The large fireball was observed on the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia. A relatively small asteroid caused the fireball that entered the Earth's atmosphere at high speed and at a shallow angle. As it entered the earth, the fireball released a tremendous amount of energy, fragmented at high altitude, and produced …show more content…
This releases colossal pressure that is generated head-on, and makes the body to disintegrate laterally into something called the pancake effect. The pancake effect creates even larger a surface area of debris that causes even more stress. This stress causes the meteor to release most of its kinetic energy through this cataract of explosions quickly.
During this occurrence, the seismic shock produced by the air burst measured 2.7 on the Richter scale. A statement from the University of Western Ontario indicated that the blast triggered by the meteor was equal to 470 kilotons of TNT.
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a super bolide caused by a near earth asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere above Russia on 15 February 2013 at around 09:20 YEKT with a speed of about 19.16 km per second. The meteor quickly developed into a brilliant super bolide meteor over the southern Ural region. The light produced by the meteor was brighter than that of the Sun, up to 100 km away. The meteor was observed over a wide area and in neighboring republics. According to some eyewitnesses, they also felt an intense heat from the …show more content…
258 school children were among the casualties of the explosion in Chelyabinsk. The vast disintegration of glass windows exposed many inhabitants to the bitter cold because the city temperature was expected to fall to -4 F. the impact also left 80 million trees fallen.
Response
The region’s governor immediately urged workers specialized in panning windows to rush to the area and help with repairs. Executives from around the world were also quick to call for greater alertness in monitoring meteors.
Recovery
The Feb 15, 2013 meteor has created a great deal of interest in the search for potentially dangerous asteroids. This has led to the formation of an asteroid warning center at the European Space Agency. In a statement, the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit organization seeking to reduce threats from asteroids, advised agencies all over the world to step up in their search for hazardous space rocks. The group plans step up their effort by adding the asteroid-hunting Sentinel Space Telescope, which it hopes to launch in 2018 (Howell,
In a concurrence that still has NASA specialists shaking their heads, a small asteroid completely unrelated to 2012 DA14 struck Earth only hours before the publicized event. The impactor flew unexpectedly, literally from the direction of the sun where no telescope could see it, and took everyone by surprise as the meteor speckled across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains.
The large fireball was observed on the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia. A relatively small asteroid caused the fireball that entered the Earth's atmosphere at high speed and at a shallow angle. As it entered the earth, the fireball released a tremendous amount of energy, fragmented at high altitude, and produced …show more content…
This releases colossal pressure that is generated head-on, and makes the body to disintegrate laterally into something called the pancake effect. The pancake effect creates even larger a surface area of debris that causes even more stress. This stress causes the meteor to release most of its kinetic energy through this cataract of explosions quickly.
During this occurrence, the seismic shock produced by the air burst measured 2.7 on the Richter scale. A statement from the University of Western Ontario indicated that the blast triggered by the meteor was equal to 470 kilotons of TNT.
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a super bolide caused by a near earth asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere above Russia on 15 February 2013 at around 09:20 YEKT with a speed of about 19.16 km per second. The meteor quickly developed into a brilliant super bolide meteor over the southern Ural region. The light produced by the meteor was brighter than that of the Sun, up to 100 km away. The meteor was observed over a wide area and in neighboring republics. According to some eyewitnesses, they also felt an intense heat from the …show more content…
258 school children were among the casualties of the explosion in Chelyabinsk. The vast disintegration of glass windows exposed many inhabitants to the bitter cold because the city temperature was expected to fall to -4 F. the impact also left 80 million trees fallen.
Response
The region’s governor immediately urged workers specialized in panning windows to rush to the area and help with repairs. Executives from around the world were also quick to call for greater alertness in monitoring meteors.
Recovery
The Feb 15, 2013 meteor has created a great deal of interest in the search for potentially dangerous asteroids. This has led to the formation of an asteroid warning center at the European Space Agency. In a statement, the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit organization seeking to reduce threats from asteroids, advised agencies all over the world to step up in their search for hazardous space rocks. The group plans step up their effort by adding the asteroid-hunting Sentinel Space Telescope, which it hopes to launch in 2018 (Howell,