NASA has released a new function of every exclusive asteroid that entered Earth ’s ambience from 1994 to 2013 . Although almost all 556 of the asteroids disintegrate harmlessly , this well spill map shows us exactly how common asteroids smash are and how often our atmosphere saves our skin .
This single-valued function from NASA ’s Near Earth Objects ( NEO ) Program is based off of government activity sensors , and it is more complete than a previous mapbased off of instruments used to notice nuclear blasts . The largest dot is over Chelyabinsk , Russia , where a 10,000 - ton glob of space rockmemorably blow up in 2013 .
The heat and imperativeness of passing through Earth ’s air break in up the little asteroids whose paths collide with the Earth ’s . But there are a bunch of sway slinging through space , big rocks too , andwe are n’t doing a very good of tracking them . [ NASA ]
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