(CNN) While you were living your life on December 18th, 2018, a giant space rock exploded 16 miles above the Earth's surface, giving off 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima. With an impact energy of 173 kilotons, December's fireball was the second-most powerful to enter Earth's atmosphere in 30 years. This may sound catastrophic, but images being shared of December's fireball are actually quite poetic in scale. Some colour views of the #meteor that flew over the North Pacific in December 2018, taken by Japan's #Himawari satellite. That's because the area where the fireball exploded, over the Bering Sea, is extremely remote.

Source: CNN March 18, 2019 21:29 UTC