http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Sma ... 81431.html
Probably somewhere over the Atlantic ocean, apparently. And it was only the size of a small car, so the explosion was only in the 500-1000 tons of TNT range. For some sense of scale, the yield of the Hiroshima bomb was somewhere between 13,000 and 18,000 tons, so - although this "was no Chelyabinsk" (estimated explosive yield: 500,000 tons of TNT) - it could still have spoiled your day if you were near it ...
Small asteroid hits Earth
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Re: Small asteroid hits Earth
Yeah, and only spotted less than a day before impact... small or large, they are out there.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!