As it became known to journalists, in early February over the Atlantic ocean a thousand kilometers from the Brazilian coast exploded a large meteorite. The power of the explosion, according to NASA estimates, amounted to about 13 kilotons of TNT.
The incident occurred on 6 February and immediately hit the summary NASA, however, went unnoticed until the media until the explosion has not told the author of the popular blog on astronomical topics Phil plate. As a result of explosion nobody has suffered, however, if it had occurred on settlement, his forces would be enough to knock out the glass in the Windows of houses and scare a lot of people.
According to approximate calculations of scientists, the diameter of the heavenly guest was about 5-7 meters. Its explosion was the most powerful since the fall of the meteorite under Chelyabinsk. Recall that the Chelyabinsk meteor had a diameter of 19 meters, and the power of the explosion amounted to 500 kilotons of TNT.