The huge fireball crashed into South Atlantic ocean, just off the coast of Brazil, on Feb. 6 (Photo : You Tube/The Cosmos News)
Anything that drops from the sky, especially if it is a UFO or a meteor, will surely be reported on print and broadcast. However, there is one case that never made it to headlines, at least not until now. On Feb. 6, a massive meteor crashed into earth and exploded but regardless of how odd it may be, no one noticed the incident.
The meteor or the huge fireball hit the earth and it fell into the Atlantic earlier this month. To be more precise, after exploding in the air, the debris landed southeast of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The explosion emitted strong energy that is said to be equivalent to 13,000 tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
That amount of TNT is dangerous for it is the same quantity of energy that was used to make the first atomic bomb that totally destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. Moreover, the fireball was said to be the biggest meteor strike to happen since the February 2013 fireball explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia which hurt over 1,600 Russian natives, Daily Mail UK reported.
Nonetheless, the said fireball was definitely huge, estimated to measure about 16.4 to 30 feet wide, but how come this was not spotted or noticed? Some experts gave some possible reasons for this:
First off, the chances of anyone taking a photo of the explosion was very slight and one reason was the location of the impact. It was in a remote place and in the middle of the ocean. Secondly, it was probably not detected because the blast reduced the meteor to small pieces of meteorite debris after most of its mass were burned during the atmospheric entry.
Furthermore, on his blog post on Slate, astronomer Phil Plait described the thing that dropped from the sky on Feb. 6 as a hard bit of space debris which probably blown up. He added that the object is likely a rock similar to the meteor which hit Chelyabinsk in 2013.
If there is anything good in this incident, it was the fact that the fireball did not fell on a populated area. Or else, something worst could have happened. Lastly, since the NASA was not able to warn people about the arrival of the huge meteor, the impact on the ocean was really a great blessing to lifeforms on earth.
See the video for the illustration of the meteor's impact on earth which took place earlier this month
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