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Artist description based on research findings. The explosion was as powerful as 1,000 Hiroshimas. Illustration: Alan West and Jennifer Rice, CC BY-ND

A giant space rock destroyed a city near the Dead Sea about 3,600 years ago; Inspiration for the story of the destruction of Sodom and the destruction of the walls of Jericho

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One of the researchers responsible for the discovery tells how an asteroid similar to the one that caused the incident in Tungaska in Siberia in 1908, hit a city in Jordan northeast of the Dead Sea. The city was abandoned afterwards, and the echoes of the explosion hit other cities in the vicinity, including Jericho
Another angle of view of the meteor that hit Russia on Friday, 15/2/2013, from a YouTube video

"The meteorite explosion in Russia was 30 times more powerful than the bomb on Hiroshima"

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The meteor that exploded in Russia on February 15, 2013 as seen by the Metosat 10 satellite

Opinion/ Meteorite impact and extinction of dinosaurs - we should act to prevent man from a similar fate

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A screenshot from a video circulating on YouTube that is supposed to depict the crater created by the meteorite that hit Russia on February 15, 2013

This is not the Russian meteorite crater

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DE-STAR - A proposal for a system of satellites that will repel or even explode asteroids as they approach the Earth. Image: Philip M. Lubin, University of California at Santa Barbara

Fend off threatening asteroids while still in space using a laser

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Meteorite explosion over Russia, February 15, 2012, screenshot from RT broadcasts

Hundreds injured by a meteor explosion in the air in Russia

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