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Property damage. Over 7,200 [4] buildings damaged, collapsed factory roof, shattered windows, $33 million (2013 USD) lost [5] The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC ).
Tunguska event. / 60.90306°N 101.90972°E / 60.90306; 101.90972. The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai ), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. [1] [3] The explosion over the sparsely populated East ...
Meteor-1. Meteor-1 was a set of fully operational Russian meteorological satellite launched from the Plesetsk site. The satellites were placed in a near-circular, near-polar prograde orbit to provide near-global observations of the earth's weather systems, cloud cover, ice and snow fields, and reflected and emitted radiation from the dayside and nightside of the earth-atmosphere system for ...
The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere. The descent of the meteor, visible as a brilliant superbolide in the morning sky, caused a ...
The Russian space station Mir ended its mission on 23 March 2001, when it was brought out of its orbit, entered the atmosphere and was destroyed. Major components ranged from about 5 to 15 years in age, and included the Mir Core Module, Kvant-1, Kvant-2, Kristall, Spektr, Priroda, and Docking Module. Although Russia was optimistic about Mir 's ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Baikonur Cosmodrome [a] is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. [1] All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur. [2]
OSIRIS-RExOSIRIS-APEX. OSIRIS-REx [a] was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. [14] The material, returned in September 2023, is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial ...
A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) is a spacecraft being developed by NASA to deflect dangerous Near Earth objects (NEOs) such as comets and asteroids that threaten colliding with Earth. [1] The vehicle is intended to use powerful explosives, such as nuclear bombs, to deflect the NEO by detonating on the surface, thus changing ...