Meteor over the Mediterranean (2002)

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The meteor over the Mediterranean refers to a bolide with subsequent explosion in the high atmosphere on June 6, 2002 over the Mediterranean . The event took place at 04:28 UT over the sea between Libya and Crete (at about 34 ° N 21 ° E) and released a TNT equivalent of a small nuclear weapon in an airburst . No meteorite fragments were found.

literature

  • Gordon R. Osinski et al .: Impact cratering - processes and products. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2013, ISBN 978-1-405-19829-5 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Brown et al .: The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth. In: Nature . Volume 420, pp. 294-296, November 21, 2002, doi: 10.1038 / nature01238 ; online PDF, accessed on May 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Speech by Gen. Simon Worden: "Military Perspectives on the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Threat" spaceref.com