The New Zealand Seismological Service also detected the shock wave associated with the explosion.
A few days ago, a huge fireball appeared in the sky of New Zealand, which was supposedly caused by a smaller meteorite, only a few meters wide, that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and fell into pieces, possibly over the ocean.
A fireball is a meteor whose brightness reaches or exceeds -5 degrees, that is, the brightness of Venus.
The explosion accompanying the entry of the space rock is said to have had the force of 1,800 tons of TNT – roughly a tenth the force of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and the shock wave was detected by the New Zealand earthquake monitoring service GeoNet, while the flash of light was also detected. Powerful by satellites used to detect lightning globally. are recorded.
(source: TweakTown)
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