Meteor Explodes in Atlantic Almost As powerful as the Hiroshima bomb

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - Tim Near Earth Object Program (NEOP) on NASA released new data about the meteor that fell in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean some time ago. Meteor is proved to have the power of TNT.

Meteor that fell in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, or about 1,850 kilometers southeast of the coastal city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is actually happening on the 6th February. Team New NASA research data reveal it.

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According to NASA, the time of entry into the Earth's atmosphere, streaking meteor in speed of about 54 thousand kilometers per hour.

Citing the CBC website, when it reaches the Earth's surface, this meteor on fire and exploded about 31 meters above sea level.

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NASA said that the strength of the resulting explosion the same as 13 thousand tons of TNT (trinitrotoluene). "The energy is not much different from the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in Japan," according to NASA. The strength of the Hiroshima bomb during World War II is 15 thousand tons of TNT.

The relatively strong, because the meteor that struck the town Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013 and become a 'benchmark' the fateful events of the object space. Chelyabinsk meteor known that strength equivalent to 500 thousand tons of TNT.

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"Giant fireball was detected about 31 kilometers above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean," cooed one NEOP NASA researcher, Ron Baalke on 19 February last, complete with screenshots publication GPS.

While an astronomer and writer at Slate's blog Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait, also to estimate the size of the mysterious meteor. According to him, the size of the meteorite measuring parlor in general, with a length of about 5 to 7 meters.

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Unfortunately, when these events occur, arguably difficult to get an amateur recording of the citizens because of the location of the meteor in the middle of the sea.

Meteor detection process itself comes from a combination of satellite images acquired, microphone atmospheric and seismic monitors.