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Rockstar
06-05-18, 10:08 AM
Read somewhere the energy was equivalent to 0.5 kilotons of TNT





http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=04&month=06&year=2018



Saturday, June 2nd, astronomers working with the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona discovered a small asteroid (2018 LA) near the orbit of the Moon. Hours later, it hit Earth. The boulder-sized space rock entered the atmosphere traveling 38,000 mph (17 km/s) and exploded over Botswana at 6:44 p.m. local time. A video camera at a farm near Ottosda, South Africa, recorded the explosion. It was impressively bright even at a distance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=rnBvSNYy-EY

GoldenRivet
06-05-18, 11:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM3PX_GiYHo

Jimbuna
06-05-18, 12:20 PM
https://i.imgur.com/jzsTW2O.jpg