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The meteoroid above Mediterranean Sea on July, 6th 2002 was a fragment of a cometary nucleus?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2010

Klim I. Churyumov ,
Vitaly G. Kruchynenko ,
Larissa S. Chubko  and
Tatyana K. Churyumova
Klim I. Churyumov
Affiliation:
Kyiv Shevchenko National University, Box 04053, Observatorna str., 3, Kyiv, Ukraine email: [email protected]
Vitaly G. Kruchynenko
Affiliation:
Kyiv Shevchenko National University, Box 04053, Observatorna str., 3, Kyiv, Ukraine email: [email protected]
Larissa S. Chubko
Affiliation:
National Aviation University, Box 03680, Kosmonavta Komarova ave. 1, Kiev, Ukraine
Tatyana K. Churyumova
Affiliation:
Kyiv Shevchenko National University, Box 04053, Observatorna str., 3, Kyiv, Ukraine email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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It is shown, that the explosion of the bolide above the Mediterranean sea on July, 6th 2002 with a high probability was a fragment of an icy cometary nucleus which initial weight was equal approximately to 7 ⋅ 108 grams. This follows from the determined energy of the outburst equal to 26kT of TNT (Brown et al. 2002). We think that this energy refers to the height of the maximal braking of the body in the Earth's atmosphere. At the speed of 20.3 km/s accepted by authors, the weight of a body at this height is equal 5 ⋅ 108 gr, and at the entrance in the atmosphere it was approximately of 7 ⋅ 108 gr.

Keywords

meteorsmeteoroidsbolidecometEarth
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S263: Icy Bodies of the Solar System , August 2009 , pp. 246 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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