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The powerful meteor that no one saw (except satellites)

Phys.org - Tue 19 Mar 19

At precisely 11:48 am on December 18, 2018, a large space rock heading straight for Earth at a speed of 19 miles per second exploded into a vast ball of fire as it entered the atmosphere, 15.9 ...

The powerful meteor that no one saw except satellites, SpaceDaily - Wed 20 Mar 19

A meteor just exploded in Earth's atmosphere — and apparently nobody saw it

ABC Science - Mon 18 Mar 19

A explosion packing 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima nuclear bomb is detected as a meteor hits the atmosphere just 25 kilometres above the planet, ...

Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year

Newscientist - Mon 18 Mar 19

The huge meteor explosion which hit Earth in December was caught on camera by the Japanese Himawari-8 weather satellite

US detects huge meteor explosion

BBC News - Mon 18 Mar 19

The fireball is the second most powerful in 30 years and the biggest since one over Chelyabinsk in 2013.

Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now

Newscientist - Fri 15 Mar 19

The second-largest meteor to hit Earth in the past century exploded over the ocean last December, but nobody was around to see it

SEE IT: First images emerge of meteor that exploded with 10x the energy of atomic bomb in Hiroshima

FOXNews - Mon 25 Mar 19

A Japanese weather satellite has provided visual evidence of the historic asteroid that exploded in the atmosphere over the Bering Sea in December that packed a punch of 10 atomic bombs used ...

Scientists explain why we're just now learning about a giant meteor that exploded over Earth last year

USA today - Tue 19 Mar 19

A giant meteor exploded over the Bering Sea in December, the biggest blast believed to have happened since an event in Russia in 2013, says NASA.        

Sneaky Meteor Evades Earthling Detection, Explodes with Force of 10 Atomic Bombs

SPACE.com - Tue 19 Mar 19

On Dec. 18, 2018, a school bus-size meteor exploded over Earth with an impact energy of roughly 10 atomic bombs. But no one saw it.

Sneaky Meteor Evades Earthling Detection, Explodes with Force of 10 Atomic Bombs, Livescience - Mon 18 Mar 19

A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with the energy of 10 atomic bombs

Popular Science - Mon 18 Mar 19

Space And we never saw it coming. Scientists recently observed a meteor exploding over the Bering Sea with the energy of 10 atomic bombs. It’s officially the second largest ...

A Huge Asteroid Exploded Above Earth, and You Totally Missed It

Gizmodo - Mon 18 Mar 19

The second-largest asteroid to hit Earth in the last 30 years went undetected, until now.Read more...

NASA Reports Undetected Asteroid Explosion in Upper Atmosphere

Extremetech - Mon 18 Mar 19

NASA has reported a significant meteor explosion in Earth's atmosphere several months ago -- and we didn't see it coming. The post NASA Reports Undetected Asteroid Explosion in Upper Atmosphere ...

NASA: A massive meteor exploded over Earth, but almost no one noticed - CNET

CNET - Mon 18 Mar 19

The fireball flew across the Bering Sea in December.

NASA Detects Giant Meteor Explosion Over Bering Sea

Geek.com - Mon 18 Mar 19

NASA recently detected a massive fireball explosion over the Bering Sea and it’s the second largest of its kind in 30 years. The blast, which occurred when a huge space rock exploded in ...

A 1,500 TON meteor exploded over Earth with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb

Daily Mail - Mon 18 Mar 19

It took place on 23:50 GMT on 18 December 2018 over the Bering Sea - between Russia and Alaska.

Mystery 'glowing ball' UFO streaks through Russian sky

Daily Mail - Mon 18 Mar 19

A mysterious light that looked like it was headed for the Earth's surface was observed a few hundred miles from a famous explosion site 111 years ago known as 'Tunguska'.

US detects meteor explosion 10 times the energy as atomic bomb: report

FOXNews - Mon 18 Mar 19

Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer for NASA, told the BBC on Sunday that an historic asteroid exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in December that had 10 times the energy than the ...

NASA detects atomic-force meteor explosion above the Bering Sea

UPI - Tue 19 Mar 19

According to NASA, a meteor exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December.

@CNN fails basic meteor math – makes more “fake news”

Watts Up With That? - Mon 18 Mar 19

You may have heard that NASA announced over the weekend at a conference that a large meteor exploded in the upper atmosphere over the Bering Sea on December 18th, 2018, which had gone unnoticed ...