Tag: Chelyabinsk disaster

[ad_1] Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke about the asteroid horror story, dubbed the Chelyabinsk disaster, in Russia. Know just how dangerous an asteroid can be. On February 15, 2013, an asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion resulted in the asteroid breaking down into small pebbles which rained onto Earth in the form of debris. The debris itself was not the cause of any real injury or damage. Amazingly, the real threat was from the explosion that took place and the shock wave that followed combined with the reality of modern living. The horror story that ensued injured nearly a thousand people. Since the last major asteroid strike to the Earth was hundreds of thousands years ago, most do not realize the lethality of even the smallest of space roc...