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In Yakutia, in the north-eastern part of Asian Russia, an asteroid has burned up in a spectacular fireball. The celestial body was only discovered around twelve hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen At 19:15 local time (17:15 CET) on Wednesday evening, the approximately 70-centimetre asteroid with the catalog name C0WEPC5 hit the Earth's atmosphere over Siberia at a speed of 16 meters per second (around 57.6 kilometers per hour) and produced a glowing fireball. It had only been discovered a few hours earlier by astronomers at the Kitt Peak Observatory in the US state of Arizona.
ESA announces "nice fireball"
The European Space Agency ESA had reported in advance on X (formerly Twitter) that the cosmic chunk would produce "a nice fireball" over northern Siberia. Thanks to data from all over the world, the asteroid's trajectory could be precisely predicted.
Around 1.3 million asteroids are known
The space agencies are currently aware of around 1.3 million asteroids. The scenarios for the next 100 years are repeatedly played out for the 35,000 or so currently known near-Earth chunks.
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