THE United States Air Force detected a massive explosion in December of last year when an asteroid blew up in our atmosphere. The blast was ten times more powerful than the explosion from the atomi…
THE United States Air Force detected a massive explosion in December of last year when an asteroid blew up in our atmosphere.
It hit at around midday local time -- but because the impact happened over the Bering sea it was not widely noticed. It was the most powerful such explosion since a huge blast rocked the Russian region of Chelyabinsk in 2013., Lindley Johnson, planetary defence officer at Nasa said that a fireball this big is only expected about two or three times every 100 years.
Many flights between the USA and Asia fly over the Bering Sea, and researchers have reached out to airlines to see if anyone actually saw the blast.In fact, Johnson revealed that NASA only found out about the impact when they were informed by the US Air Force, whose detection systems had picked up the massive explosion.Nasa believes none of the thousands of NEOs that it keeps a close eye on are currently on a collision course with our planet.
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