That’s because the area where the fireball exploded, over the Bering Sea, is extremely remote. NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson told the BBC such a powerful meteor event only happens a few times every 100 years. (As a side note, “Planetary Defense Officer” is probably as close to a real-life “Avengers” title as you’re gonna get.) Huge meteor exploded over Earth ‘with 10 times energy of Hiroshima atomic bomb’: A meteor exploded into a massive fireball in the Earth’s atmosphere, releasing 10 times the energy of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb, NASA has revealed. And if the big one ever comes along to make dinosaurs of us all, NASA’s Planetary Defense Office has our backs.

Source: bd News24 March 19, 2019 15:33 UTC