Sentences with phrase «airburst occurred»

The authors use a two - dimensional atmospheric model to simulate the nitrate and ozone changes associated with the A.D. 1908 Tunguska event where a bolide airburst occurred over Siberia, Russia.

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).

Not exact matches

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.