Sentences with phrase «exploded at an altitude»

All this allowed the team to conclude that the object, an asteroid 17 to 20 metres across and with a mass of 10,000 tonnes, exploded at an altitude of about 30 kilometres.

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The impact on the ocean life below depends on the altitude at which the bomb explodes, Lyman says.

While no large impacts have been recorded in historical times, a mysterious blast in the skies over the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908 has now been identified as a comet that exploded at high altitude as it entered Earth's atmosphere.

Dam, they've got SAM sites and I have to bail out at low altitude before jumping into a Jeep and speeding off down the runway and leaping off into the abyss, at the last second before I hit the ground I leap out and open my parachute as the Jeep explodes into a ball of fire behind me.......