The event is properly called a “fireball,”NASA’s term for “exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to to be seen over a very wide area.”
With an impact energy of 4.2 kilotons, December’s fireball was the second-most powerful to enter Earth’s atmosphere in 30 years. You may recall the first — it was that huge, blinding fireball that rocked parts of Russia in 2013
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This may sound catastrophic, but images being shared of December’s fireball are actually quite poetic in scale. This atomic, otherworldly force appears as a simple red blip above the clouds.
Source: A meteor exploded in Earth’s atmosphere with 10 times the energy of Hiroshima atomic bomb
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