BREAKING NEWS

Saturday, February 16, 2013

"It exploded at 20 to 25 kilometers above the surface and released the equivalent of 300,000 tonnes of TNT of energy" Although that initial estimate could be revised higher, perhaps to 500,000 tonnes of TNT energy. The atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima during World War II was the equivalent of 15,000 tonnes of TNT"

 Professor Peter Brown (University of Western Otarino)


''This is the largest recorded event since the 1908 Tunguska event,'' On June 30,   1908, the explosion of a meteor, believed to be an asteroid, flattened millions of trees over 200,000 hectares in a remote, largely uninhabited area of central Siberia about 2000 kilometers away from Friday's strike.

Paul Chodas, (Scientist, NASA's Near Earth Object Program)


"The meteor was impossible to detect because it approached from the day side. ''And as you know, telescopes can't see anything during the day"

Bill Cooke, (Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville)




"This was the first time a crashing meteor was known to have injured a large number of people"

Clark Chapman, (Scientist, Southwest Research Institute)



"Roughly 1000 to 10,000 tonnes of material rained down from space towards the earth every day, but most burned up in the atmosphere"

Simon Goodwin, (Britain's University of Sheffield)

Thursday, February 14, 2013