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#10YearsAgo today, a 10,000 ton meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia releasing energy roughly equivalent to 500-kilotons of TNT. Thousands of buildings were damaged and nearly 1,500 people were injured (though there were no fatalities).

Photo credit: M. Ahmetvaleev
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Mathijs Booden
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Mathijs Booden
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Literally two days ago a student asked me about meteorites and I said hold on, let me find a clip of this one that exploded over Russia a couple years back.

Turned out to be a decade.

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AstroBalrog
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AstroBalrog
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If this impact event had happened over New York City, the insurance costs due to damages would be staggering! (I really would like to see an estimate of this - I'd include it in my asteroids and planetary defense lecture.)

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