Thread: Asteroid near miss?
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Old 27-10-2009, 07:03 PM
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It states such asteroids (here 10 metres across) hit Earth once per decade. Anyone know why would it have exploded at that height (15 to 20 kms)? Was that because its trajectory was more tangential than normal to the Earth's atmosphere on entry?

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