Chelyabinsk Meteor: Massive Explosion

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The Unexplained Story of The Bell Island Boom

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The Chelyabinsk meteor was the size of a six -story building and hit the atmosphere at 64,000 kilometers per hour , roughly 40,000 mph .

The explosion was massive, shattering windows for hundreds of miles and injuring 1200 people.

The energy released exceeded 470 kilotons of TNT , that's 30 to 40 times bigger than the bomb that hit Hiroshima .

The Bell Island boom was one of a whole series of unexplained booms reported all the way up and down the East Coast of North America between 1977 and 1978 .

It was seen from space, actually, by the Vela satellite, which was launched to detect nuclear explosions.

The US Navy speculated it might be due to strange atmospheric effects that carried the booms of military aircraft.

There were two scientists from AUS nuclear research facility that visited Riot Fair in the middle of the Cold War .

The most likely answer is it was a super bolt. Super bolts carry trillions of watts of optical power, and as we all know, an average lightning bolt carries 1.21 gigawatts. The damage of the Bickford farm was actually pretty mild.

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