Called Can Cause Doomsday, This is the Speed ​​and Power of Meteors Falling to Earth

JAKARTA – Meteor It is one of the most common celestial bodies that fall to Earth. The enormity of meteors that have fallen to earth was recorded in Russia, namely in the cities of Chelyabinsk and Tunguska.

Scientists have predicted that space rocks are one of the threats that can make the earth doomsday. For this reason, NASA has prepared the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which will crash the spacecraft into an asteroid that threatens the earth.

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Here’s speed and power meteor that have fallen to earth are processed from various sources:

1. Meteor Chelyabinsk

A powerful meteor explosion occurred in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013 ago. This 20 meter wide space rock exploded at an altitude of 45 kilometers above the city.

The speed of this meteor was recorded at 20 kilometers per second and the explosion was equivalent to 500 kilotons of TNT or 33 times the power of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Just below the explosion, the shockwave shattered the windows of 3,600 apartment blocks and injured 1,200 people.

After the explosion, scientists found pieces of meteor in a 7 meter wide hole in Lake Chebarkul. When carried by scientists, the meteorite weighed up to 650 kilograms.

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