NASA Gigantic meteor explosion lights up the skies

#NASA reports earth suffered a near miss in December as a meteor exploded in the atmosphere over the #Bering Sea, close to #Russia‘s Kamchatka Peninsula. The meteor travelling at over 20 miles per second, exploded with the force of more than 10 times (173 kilotons) the strength, of the #atomic blast which obliterated #Hiroshima ending World War II.

A spokesperson for NASA, Lindley Johnson, NASA’s #planetary defence official told BBC.UK that “a fireball this big is only expected about two or three times every 100 years,” the actual extraterrestrial rock exploded 25.6km above the Earth’s surface and over water, and this is why people did not see the explosion. Furthermore, the #meteor entered the earth’s atmosphere at a very steep trajectory of seven degrees making it hard to see with the naked eye.

This is not the first time that the #Kamchatka Peninsula has witnessed such an extraterrestrial event such as this, just six years ago Chelyabinsk in Russia suffered an even greater meteor explosion 40% higher than this latest event and that one happened over land, so the fireball was noticed by many people.

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