Gizmodo: [Update] French Woman Hit by Apparent Meteorite While Relaxing on Her Terrace https://gizmodo.com/french-woman-hit-apparent-meteorite-relaxing-terrace-1850651085 #peekskillmeteorite #chelyabinskmeteor #meteoritefalls #meteoritemen #environment #geophysics #meteorite

@flodebarre Great question. First shot from me: 1908 #TunguskaEvent and 2013 #ChelyabinskMeteor both hit #Russia! There are ~200 countries so the likelihood must be 1/40000 LOL

Heute vor 10 Jahren, gegen 9:20 Uhr Ortszeit, ereignete sich über der Stadt #Tscheljabinsk ein großer und weithin sichtbarer #Meteor. Es handelt sich um einen bisher einmaligen #Meteoritenfall, da rund 1500 Personen verletzt wurden, die meisten durch splitterndes #Fensterglas. Sowohl Teile des #Meteorit als auch zerbrochenes Fensterglas können im #Astronomiemuseum der #Sternwarte #Sonneberg besichtigt werden. #ChelyabinskMeteor #Chelyabinsk

On 15 February 2013 (#OTD 10 years ago) the ~18 metre large #Chelyabinsk #meteor entered Earth's atmosphere and then exploded over Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It caused a considerable number of injuries and widespread damage.

#ChelyabinskMeteor

Animation credit: #Wikimedia User:Hike395
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meteorite_explosion_over_Chelyabinsk_on_February_15,_2013.gif

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Chelyabinsk meteor - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

"It was caused by an approximately 18 m (59 ft) diameter, 9,100 t near-Earth asteroid that entered the atmosphere at a shallow 18.3 ± 0.4 degree angle with a speed relative to Earth of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (69,000 km/h or 42,690 mph)."

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