Russian Meteorite 30 Times Stronger Than The Hiroshima Bomb

February 17 in the Urals operate to clear the debris caused by the explosion of a Friday, the scientific group around the world wanting to find out there about the extraordinary character of this phenomenon, while thousands of people continued Sunday.

NASA has long indicated and Saturday to offer a free account of his study about them. Based on the U.S. House organization in the meteorite calculated 17 yards wide when it enters the atmosphere, and weighed in at 10,000 tons. She would have exploded within the Earth very virtually 500 kilotonnes publishing thirty days to energy the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. "An event of the size occurs an average of once that a stated Paul Chodas, accountable meteorite Plane Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Ground, the research groups have discovered small fragments of an inch wide, which could be those of the meteorite. Divers furthermore explored below involving a river near the city of Chelyabinsk, the icy surface that a violation of a few yards wide had been noticed, but they haven't found enough time to steel to meteoric beginning, officials said.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Up against the paucity regarding proof of the explosion of conspiracy theories flourish to describe what is behind the fireball and the great shock wave saved Friday morning in your open public where many of armament factories.

The best choice of the Euro nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has told correspondents in Moscow that "it isn't a meteorite. There's a brand new tool examined by the Americans." A priest of the region where the surge was heard and only his facet spoke of divine intervention. Russian social networking are flooded using them when rumors and assumptions upon the explosion.

A BILLION DAMAGE ROUBLES

But life has came back to normal in your own community, where fifty injured had been still in hospital Sunday, a total of more than original 1200 injured, generally struggling with broken glass. Repairs are carried out easily because winter temperatures dropped to close up -20 A H. Over night.

Sent up by President Vladimir Putin, the Minister of emergencies, Vladimir Poutchkov, examined the affected parts. The quantity of damage was estimated at one million rubles, or twenty-five million pounds, said the governor of the Chelyabinsk region.