NASA has detected the explosion of a meteorite over the Bering Sea with the force of 11 atomic bombs

The event occurred 25 kilometers from the surface of the Earth, in an area crossed by several commercial flights.

A giant explosion of a meteorite in the Earth's atmosphere was detected by NASA, which recorded a force multiplying by 11 the impact of the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima. This is the biggest explosion of its kind since Chelyabinsk Russia, six years ago.

The event occurred in December, but it was not recorded on social networks nor detected by the human eye because of its remote location: near the Russian peninsula. Kamchatka, on the Bering Sea, in the middle of winter.

Such an explosion is not at all usual, it occurs two or three times a century, told NASA Specialist BBC Lindley Johnson.

The asteroid entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32 kilometers per hour, at an angle of seven degrees. The celestial body, several meters in diameter, exploded about 25 kilometers from the surface of the earth and the energy had an impact of 173 kilotons, 11 times more than the 16 kilotons of the nuclear bomb used in Hiroshima.

NASA was alerted to the event by the US Air Force, whose military satellites recorded the blast.

Whatever it is, it did not happen totally away from civilization. Dr. Kelly Fast, researcher at the US Space Agency, explained that the blast zone was not far from the usual route of several commercial flights between America and Asia.

At present, no airline has reported being close to the event, but flight records are still being reviewed.

The bolide that struck Russia in 2013 generated 500 kilotons of energy and nearly 1,500 people were injured by the shock wave before the windows were destroyed and the material damage.

(Infobae)