Sentence examples for exploded in the atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The first series of bombs (1966 74) were exploded in the atmosphere and thereby created a large amount of radioactive fallout.

Because the object exploded in the atmosphere high above Earth's surface, it created a fireball and blast wave but no impact crater, and no fragments of the object have yet been found.

Scientists who for the first time tracked an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, and watched as it exploded in the atmosphere, have now picked up some of the remnants on the ground.

Just as scientists were looking in one direction, toward an asteroid scheduled to pass close to the Earth that afternoon, another one, undetected, emerged from the glare of the sun and exploded in the atmosphere over Siberia.

The object exploded in the atmosphere with a force of some 20 hydrogen bombs, its shock waves flattening hundreds of square miles of forest and registering on scientific instruments around the globe.

By looking at the 60 1-meter to about 20-meter asteroids that have exploded in the atmosphere, the team found that the Chelyabinsk airburst and the 3- to 15-megaton Tunguska airburst of 1908 which leveled 2000 square kilometers of Siberian forest weren't outliers at all.

Perhaps once a century, he speculates, a meteor explodes in the atmosphere with the approximate force of an atomic bomb.

Perhaps the most famous such "bolide" — as astronomers refer to meteors that explode in the atmosphere often with huge, bright flashes — was the one that shot above the sky over Russia in 2013.

The larger part of this comet skipped off the atmosphere, back into an Earth-crossing orbit (we should expect to find it nearby, predicts Drobyshevski .The smaller part rapidly heated up above Russia before exploding in the atmosphere over Tunguska.

PAGE A17 Pizzeria Sponsors Class's Paper A19 ASTEROID FRAGMENTS ARE FOUND After tracking an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, and watching it explode in the atmosphere, scientists have now picked up some of the remnants on the ground.

It would almost certainly explode in the atmosphere, and simple physics determined the energy of the explosion: about a half megaton of TNT.