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Russian Meteor Part of 656' Wide Asteroid? (Video)

Posted on the 09 August 2013 by Susanduclos @SusanDuclos
By Susan Duclos
With the recent news that there may be a gang of followers, along the same trajectory of the meteor that hit Russia back in February, the Daily Mail report that the 55-foot wide, 10,000 ton meteor that hit Russia, causing a 50-foot hole in a frozen lake near Chelyabinsk, is incredible timing.
It is believed that the meteor that crashed in Russia was part of the Apollo asteroid called 2011 EO40, that had broken off and came crashing to Earth,blasting out windows, disrupting mobile connections and collapsing buildings.
The 2011 EO40 is said to originally have been a 656-foot wide asteroid which broke apart. The meteor fireball, also known as a superbolide, is the biggest space rock to have hit earth in more than a hundred years and the shockwave caused by the crash was greater than 30 Hiroshima nuclear bombs according to NASA scientists at the time.

The second video is from February as a reminder of what the meteor that hit Russia looked like, as well as some views of people inside buildings when the shockwave hit, in a video compilation.

Russian Meteor Part of 656' Wide Asteroid? (Video)


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