Kamchatka Superbolide

The Kamchatka Super bolide refers to a racing car , which in the stratosphere , 18 December 2018 23:48 ( UTC ) on the Bering Sea km 300 of the peninsula Kamchatka exploded. The approximately 10 m large asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere at 32 km / s and detonated at an altitude of 25.6 km, releasing a TNT equivalent of 173 kT. The event was detected by the Terra and Himawari 8 satellites and by the CTBTO's monitoring network, but was not published until March 2019.

Astrophysicist Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario , Canada found it in the archived data from the CTBTO. Brown published its results in March 2019.

Web links

• Shelling from space sueddeutsche.de
• Huge Meteor Explosion a Wake-Up Call for Planetary Defense scientificamerican.com

See also

• Meteor over the Mediterranean (2002)
• Chelyabinsk Meteor
• Planetary Defense

Individual evidence

1. ↑ US detects huge meteor explosion bbc.com, accessed March 19, 2019
2. ↑ A Meteor Caused A Huge Explosion Over The Bering Sea. Here's Everything You Need To Know forbes.com
3. ↑ Scientists surprised to discover meteor exploded over Bering Sea in December cbc.ca
4. ↑ Second largest explosion in the earth's atmosphere in 30 years welt.de, accessed on March 20, 2019
5. ↑ Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now newscientist.com, accessed March 20, 2019
6. ↑ Brown on Twitter