Sentences with phrase «airburst over»

This prediction proved true less than two years later, on Feb. 15, 2013, when an airburst over Chelyabinsk, Russia injured more than 1000 people.

which provided inspiration for the unorthodox and controversial notion that a large airburst over North America caused an abrupt climate change mass extinction.

Not exact matches

Had the airburst happened over a big city, countless people would have been killed without warning.

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).

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.

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.