Publication Date:
2013-11-10
Description:
The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 was the largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an area with a population exceeding one million. Because it occurred in an era with modern consumer electronics, field sensors, and laboratory techniques, unprecedented measurements were made of the impact event and the meteoroid that caused it. Here, we document the account of what happened, as understood now, using comprehensive data obtained from astronomy, planetary science, geophysics, meteorology, meteoritics, and cosmochemistry and from social science surveys. A good understanding of the Chelyabinsk incident provides an opportunity to calibrate the event, with implications for the study of near-Earth objects and developing hazard mitigation strategies for planetary protection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Popova, Olga P -- Jenniskens, Peter -- Emel'yanenko, Vacheslav -- Kartashova, Anna -- Biryukov, Eugeny -- Khaibrakhmanov, Sergey -- Shuvalov, Valery -- Rybnov, Yurij -- Dudorov, Alexandr -- Grokhovsky, Victor I -- Badyukov, Dmitry D -- Yin, Qing-Zhu -- Gural, Peter S -- Albers, Jim -- Granvik, Mikael -- Evers, Laslo G -- Kuiper, Jacob -- Kharlamov, Vladimir -- Solovyov, Andrey -- Rusakov, Yuri S -- Korotkiy, Stanislav -- Serdyuk, Ilya -- Korochantsev, Alexander V -- Larionov, Michail Yu -- Glazachev, Dmitry -- Mayer, Alexander E -- Gisler, Galen -- Gladkovsky, Sergei V -- Wimpenny, Josh -- Sanborn, Matthew E -- Yamakawa, Akane -- Verosub, Kenneth L -- Rowland, Douglas J -- Roeske, Sarah -- Botto, Nicholas W -- Friedrich, Jon M -- Zolensky, Michael E -- Le, Loan -- Ross, Daniel -- Ziegler, Karen -- Nakamura, Tomoki -- Ahn, Insu -- Lee, Jong Ik -- Zhou, Qin -- Li, Xian-Hua -- Li, Qiu-Li -- Liu, Yu -- Tang, Guo-Qiang -- Hiroi, Takahiro -- Sears, Derek -- Weinstein, Ilya A -- Vokhmintsev, Alexander S -- Ishchenko, Alexei V -- Schmitt-Kopplin, Phillipe -- Hertkorn, Norbert -- Nagao, Keisuke -- Haba, Makiko K -- Komatsu, Mutsumi -- Mikouchi, Takashi -- Chelyabinsk Airburst Consortium -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Nov 29;342(6162):1069-73. doi: 10.1126/science.1242642. Epub 2013 Nov 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 38, Building 1, Moscow, 119334, Russia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24200813" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Accidents
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*Air
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*Explosions
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*Meteoroids
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Russia
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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