Small (2 meter) Asteroid strikes earth

[Rockstar]

Read somewhere the energy was equivalent to 0.5 kilotons of TNT

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive....h=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: