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A large meteor from space crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month – but it was barely noticed.
The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere on Feb. 6. The blast was the largest to hit Earth since Chelyabinsk in 2013, with force the equivalent of detonating 13,000 tons of TNT, according to Slate. To put that in perspective, the Hiroshima bomb had about the same amount of power.
So why isn’t YouTube flooded with videos of the meteor? Because the event happened so far out over the ocean it’s likely no one saw it, about 620 miles off the coast of Brazil.
The event was only picked up by military monitoring instruments like satellites and seismic monitors and sent to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for analysis, according to Slate.
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The meteor was estimated to be around five to seven meters wide, which makes it the biggest to enter Earth’s atmosphere since a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013.
In fact, the Chelyabinsk meteor was much larger. That explosion was the equivalent of detonating 500,000 tons of TNT, 40 times more energy than this meteor, according to Slate. That blast injured more than 1,000 people, mostly from shattering glass.
NASA estimates around 30 small space rocks explode over Earth every year, but most are unnoticed because the Earth is 70 percent water and most burn up over the ocean, according to Forbes.
Agencies/Canadajournal
