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  • A bright fireball over Tokyo explodes with the force of 165 tons of TNT

    07/04/2020 6:52:44 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 60 replies
    CNET ^ | July 4, 2020 | Eric Mack
    Videos of the event show a spectacular light with green and purplish hues flying across the sky for just a few seconds at around 2:30 a.m. local time, before the light fizzles out. The impact of what was likely a small asteroid colliding with our atmosphere was picked up by a few of the infrasound monitoring stations set up around the world and overseen by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. The International Meteor Organization reports that the meteoroid was visible from a large part of Japan's Kanto region. The IMO estimates the space rock could've been around 5 feet (1.6...