February Night
Skies over Tanzania
Dr. Noorali
T Jiwaji
Department
of Physical Sciences, OUT
The world woke up on February 15 to a
shocking asteroid strike in the skies over a small Russian town. The nearly 10
ton asteroid caused much damage to property and injured hundreds by its shock
wave due to its hypersonic speed of more than 100,000 kilometers per hour,
which is about 100 times the speed of sound.
Such an extremely rare event was even more remarkable because of the
coincidence of another extremely rare event.
A much larger 50 ton asteroid 2012 D14 that had been accurately
predicted to fly by close to Earth also passed us safely that night.
Dar Es Salaam 
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