Asteroids cause dozens of nuclear-scale blasts in Earth's atmosphere

Many explosions stronger than Hiroshima bomb but most occur too high above ground to cause serious damage

Asteroids caused 26 nuclear-scale explosions in the Earth's atmosphere between 2000 and 2013, a new report reveals.

Some were more powerful in one case, dozens of times stronger than the atom bomb blast that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 with an energy yield equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT.

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