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Earth to Approach Closest to Taurid Complex Since 1975


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This week our planet will cut across a vast swarm of meteors, including some big enough to wipe out a major city with the violence of a nuclear weapon.

 

Known as the Taurid Complex, the cosmic debris has already been implicated in the Tunguska Event of June 30, 1908, when a huge meteor exploded over Siberia unleashing the power of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

 

Now Earth is about to make its closest approach to the same swarm since June 1975, when instruments put on the moon by the Apollo missions detected enormous numbers of meteors pummelling our nearest celestial neighbour for several days.

 

They also hope to test the theory that the Taurid Complex is just the remnant of a colossal comet-like object that entered the solar system thousands of years ago and whose disintegration still poses a threat to our planet.

 

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/science/earth-on-course-to-pass-through-vast-swarm-of-meteors-1.877579

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