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Airburst Explained: NASA Addresses the Russian Meteor Explosion
A small asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere early Friday, February 15, 2013 over Chelyabinsk, Russia at about 9:20 am local Russian time. Initial estimates, according to Bill Cooke, lead for the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, is that the asteroid was about 15 meters (50 feet) in diameter, with a weight of 7,000 metric tons. It hit the atmosphere at a shallow angle of about 20 degrees, at a speed of about 65,000 km/h (40,000 mph).
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2013-02-15 16:30:28
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Why did this asteroid leave a dual exhaust trail?
Perhaps it was targeted by one of the automated anti-ballistic missile systems, or because the meteorite body stayed intact long enough for the atmospheric friction to burn both sides of the asteroid leaving a double like trail. look if it was a secret US weapon test you would of though there’d conduct it on some innocent African or Arab country with a large populence of mostly woman and children.
Not an established militarised country with a grudge And an awfully large payload of ballistic missiles.