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10 years ago today, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion showed why we need better methods of detecting and tracking near-Earth asteroids.
Scientists studying the dramatic Chelyabinsk meteor that screamed through Russian skies this year have both good and bad news to report.
Within minutes, the meteor’s explosion had shaken the ground, with around 1,500 people injured from broken glass and other damage, and left buildings damaged.
Chelyabinsk Eyewitnesses Help Scientists Resolve Meteor Mysteries Researchers have measured the extent of the historic meteor’s damage and calculated the asteroid’s precise trajectory ...
People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor, recovered from Chebarkul Lake, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.
MOSCOW — The big blast from outer space was still reverberating in the Russian city of ­Chelyabinsk on Saturday, as glaziers went to work replacing windows, divers vainly sought meteorite ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thou… ...
Not all policies were as oblivious to meteor risk as the residential policies. Some of the larger Russian auto insurers did in fact include coverage for meteorite damage in their policies.
YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
Chelyabinsk meteor: Ten years on from 'wake-up call', how safe are we from a potentially catastrophic strike? A decade on from the Chelyabinsk meteor, and our planet has come a long way in ...
Some angry space rocks, like the recent Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia, are big enough to shatter windows and crumble walls.