The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 - TopicsExpress



          

The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 was a wake-up call, according to a University of California, Davis scientist who participated in analyzing the event. The work is published November 7, 2013 in the journal Science by an international team of researchers. If humanity does not want to go the way of the dinosaurs, we need to study an event like this in detail, said Qing-Zhu Yin, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis. Chelyabinsk was the largest meteoroid strike since the Tunguska event of 1908, and thanks to modern technology from consumer video cameras to advanced laboratory techniques, provides an unprecedented opportunity to study such an event, the authors note. ... Read more at: phys.org/news/2013-11-results-russian-chelyabinsk-meteor-published.html#jCp
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:12:17 +0000

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