Ping.
This caught my eye. My Russian son comes from Kamchatka. What a blast! Wonder if it killed some reindeer?
A building block of Earth that’s late to the party.
I’m not sure I am interpreting the velocity components correctly. (A graphic would help!) It appears to me this object came in at a moderately shallow angle relative to Earth’s surface, no?
NASA and the article refer to the energy of “impact” — I guess that “impact” refers to interaction with dense enough atmosphere to make the object blow?
Didn’t the explosion occur ABOVE the cloud deck? The altitude of the blast was apparently 25.6 km above the “reference geoid” (approx. = sea level Earth surface). The writer seems quite sloppy.
I wonder if the spectra has been analyzed to try to determine the composition of the object, or if the images give any clue as to its (pre-blast) cohesiveness? “Part of glowing meteor trail” (see the pic in the article) appears to me it is already breaking up.
Seems like an article like this deserves to have “BOOM” in the title. Heh-heh. ;-)
The Ozarks of the Missouri-Arkansas border region may have had a meteor close encounter late afternoon 19th of March. Most theories upon the ‘boom’ strong enough to shake homes on their foundations was attributed as a possible shock-wave from military aircraft activity. The problem is that the greater than 80 mile radius of the reportage footprint around Mountain Home, AR. of such a strong jolt is not consistent with an aircraft sonic boom.
The Arkansas State University Beebe Campus near Little Rock reported shattered glass. Some chatter of broken windows in homes near the Missouri border. This event is much more consistent with a diminished scale version of the Chelyabinsk, Russia meteor of 2013.