We aren’t as detached from the cosmos as some may like to believe. A recent map produced and published by CartoDB, an online mapping service site, shows where meteorites strike earth and with the relative magnitude of their impacts. The map shows both densely populated areas with frequent meteorite run-ins, such as the United States, North Africa, and Australia, and then some less common areas such as Canada and northern Russia. Some may call this irony considering the recent hype that has surrounded Russia’s latest meteor blast that injured at least 1,000 people and exploded with the energy of more than 470 kilotons of TNT. To put that into perspective, the first atomic bombs that were detonated in Japan set off between 15-20 kilotons of TNT.
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