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Such an object would not impact the ground but would produce a multimegaton airburst in the lower stratosphere, Chapman says.
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The glass itself, one large polished piece of which has a prominent place in a necklace that belonged to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, has been dated to 28.5 million years and has long been thought to be the result of a meteorite impact or an airburst caused by a comet breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.
As the descending body penetrated deeper, air resistance probably caused it to explode in an airburst with a strong flow of heated gas that was carried downward by its tremendous momentum.
The most dramatic instances of damage from the airburst were flying glass and one collapsed building: most of the people who sought medical attention in the aftermath suffered from cuts and bruises.
Between 2000 and 2013, they identified 33 such events (including the meteoroid that blazed into the atmosphere and detonated over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013, see image; the large blip in the meteor trail at right denotes where the 500 - kiloton airburst occurred).
Of those events, there were nine pairs of explosions — or airbursts — that occurred within one calendar day of each other, the researchers will report in January in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Yam: Well, in terms of the [actual] threat, I think more of an airburst is more likely; the kind of thing that happened over Tunguska a century ago, which flattened a forest.
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