If a massive meteor explodes above Earth and there are no iPhones to capture it on video, did it really happen? Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer for NASA, told the BBC on Sunday that an historic asteroid exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in December that had 10 times the energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A meteor that size swings by two or three times every 100 years. GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe BBC reported that the asteroid measured several meters and had the impact energy of 173 kilotons. The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had the energy of about 15 kilotons.

Source: Fox News March 18, 2019 08:03 UTC