Analysis: Russia Meteor Was Asteroid Breakup Fragment
The 19-meter meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, was a fragment from a main-belt asteroid that broke up long ago and was too faint for detection by existing asteroid surveys, according to a new analysis of the Feb. 15 event. Impacts with similar near-Earth objects 10 to 50 meters across...
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