On this day: 2002 - Asteroid Explosion
On this day in 2002, an asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Mediterranean Sea near the nations of Greece and Lybia. The event is known as the Eastern Mediterranean Event. The object, said to be ~10 meters in diameter, exploded in mid-air with the explosive equivalent of 26 kilotons of TNT which is similar to a small nuclear weapon. The object approached and entered the atmosphere undetected. The object completely disintegrated therefore no debris was recovered and no crater was formed as it exploded above the surface. There were no apparent injuries, social impact, or impact in critical infrastructure.
Note: Limited information is available on this event. Comments and input are greatly encouraged.
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One of these days we won't be so lucky... even Chelyabinsk earlier this year was merely a cosmic shot across our bow... this sort of thing could end up being our extinction event or at the very least be a major event in human history... image an event like Arizona's meteor crater event of about 50,000 years ago happening just about anywhere in the U.S. nowadays.
ReplyDeleteThere was some language in the research suggesting that a terrestrial strike would have indeed been catastrophic. Moreover, and there were not enough sources for this, there was concern that it may have been a nuclear weapon detonation amid a conflict between India and Pakistan. I left out of the main post due to lack of sufficient source so I mention it here only in passing.
ReplyDeleteThe Nuclear reference seems to come from a BRIGADIER GENERAL, USAF - SIMON P. WORDEN. He has two citations within Wikipedia on it. The explosion happened during the tense stand-ff period with India and Pakistan and they were worried that a similar event occurring closer to that region would have sparked a major conflict and potential escalation to nuclear war.
ReplyDeleteI think some may have taken this reference and expanded on it thinking it could have been a nuke. I have not seen any reports of radiation detection in that area either. That and EMP like effects are not noted so the nuke theory is not really plausible.
Here is a link to Wikipedia about it -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Eastern_Mediterranean_event
This is another link that may interest you as well -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_meteor_air_bursts
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* https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/new-nasa-model-gives-glimpse-into-the-invisible-world-of-electric-asteroids
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