Asteroid blast 'more powerful than Hiroshima' over sea 'almost triggered nuclear war'
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dailystar.co.ukasteroid with a diameter of just 5-10m went undetected by earth's satellites and could have triggered the end of the world.Some 60km above the earth's surface the small rock smashed into the upper atmosphere and broke into thousands of tiny fragments, none of which have ever been found.The energy released in the explosion has been estimated to be the equivalent 26 kilotonnes of TNT, roughly the size of a nuclear bomb explosion.When "Little Boy" detonated over Hiroshima it caused a reaction of 12-18 kilotonnes, while Nagasaki bomb "Fat Man" released energy equivalent to 18-23 kilotonnes.The asteroid hit the earth's atmosphere roughly 40 miles above the eastern Mediterranean, between Greece and Libya.But in the days after the so-called.
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