Chelyabinsk Meteor
The 2013 Russian airburst
A 20-meter asteroid that exploded over Russia in February 2013, releasing 30× the energy of the Hiroshima bomb and injuring 1,500 people from shattered glass.
Image: Aleksandr Ivanov
Vital statistics
Date
Feb 15, 2013
Diameter
~20 m
Mass
~13,000 tons
Energy released
~440 kilotons TNT
Speed
19 km/s
Did you know
Brightest object since the 1908 Tunguska event.
Fact 01
Detected by infrasound stations worldwide.
Fact 02
Largest fragment (650 kg) recovered from Lake Chebarkul.
Fact 03
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