"A Map of Every Nuke-Scale Asteroid Strike From ..." Topic

…the Last Decade.

"Though dinosaur-killing impacts are rare, large asteroids routinely hit the Earth. In the visualization above, you can see the location of 26 space rocks that slammed into our planet between 2000 and 2013, each releasing energy equivalent to that of some of our most powerful nuclear weapons.

The video comes from the B612 Foundation, an organization that wants to build and launch a telescope that would spot civilization-ending asteroids to give humans a heads up in trying to deflect them. To figure out where asteroids were hitting our planet, B612 used data from a worldwide network of instruments that detect infrasound, low-frequency sound waves traveling through the atmosphere. Such measurements have been used since the 1950s to detect nuclear bomb explosions and can also pick up the tremendous burst of a bolide tearing through our atmosphere.

The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates the network, recently released the location of these asteroid strikes, which gives scientists another datapoint in understanding the frequency with which these events happen. In recent years, there has been a growing consensus that the Earth gets hit by enormous space rocks more often than we previously thought. The 26 strikes in the video above were each between 1 and 600 kilotons. For comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima exploded with an energy of 16 kilotons, and the U.S.'s most powerful nuclear weapon, the B83 bomb, has a yield of up to 1.2 megatons. Of course, comparing asteroids to nuclear bombs is a bit misleading; asteroids generate a moving shockwave that can cause far more destruction than the rock itself…"
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More like "Atomic-bomb" scale (kilo-ton vice MEGA-ton), but yea, VERY AWESOME graphic there…

Had no idea there were so many even that strong; and gonna do research on the one closest to my location… 4/22/2012.

Thought I'd have heard of some event that big so close.

I wonder how many since the Tunguska event? An hour or two either way, and Moscow or St Petersburg would have been plastered. Siberia definitely has a bulls eye on it.

The stats they present are just since they were able to detect this kind of thing.
It seems to be 2 per year, which is scary enough.

Sounds worthwhile to me.

Frankly, I am amazed we do not have something up there already. Embarrassing really.

The next space mission is not really "protecting the planet"…the planet will be just fine. more like "protecting human civilization"…no need to sound overly noble.

Now all we need to do is get a few of the smaller ones and rig them to hit certain areas.

They can make great weapons with total deniably.

I thought that's why we had deep space probes?? Sent way out there to look for these and NASA could monitor their orbits in the solar system??