Three Weeks Warning Is All We Get From New Telescope Hunting Chelyabinsk-Sized Asteroids

Earlier this week, the world remembered how exactly ten years ago an 18-meter (59 feet) asteroid entered our planet’s atmosphere and detonated over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Scores of cameras caught it doing that, and we were all left in awe at the power these things pack, despite their relatively small size. The Chelyabinsk meteor, as it’s come to be known, exploded with enough force to make it brighter than th... (continue reading...)