Cara Santa Maria
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It's not a satellite.
It's not space debris.
It's not alien technology, although they didn't say that last bit.
The NASA spokesperson, Allard Butel, said that the meteor was traveling about 75,000 miles per hour, 120,700 kilometers per hour.
He said that it likely fragmented about 40 miles or 60 kilometers above the ground.
And what do you guys think of the estimates of the energy release?
How much TNT do you think was equivalent?
A couple of hundred tons.
12 megatons.
No.
12 megatons.
500 gigawatts.
No, 20 exatons.
No, it's only 300 tons.
300 tons of TNT.
300.
That's still a lot of TNT.
But then there was a later analysis, and so we got a different detail.
So NASA was saying, I guess a couple of days later, that there was like a five-foot-wide
not a three-foot-wide diameter meteor, 1.25 meters or something.