Huge meteor fell into the Atlantic Ocean

The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) recently announced a meteorite explosion that formed the "giant fireball" that fell into the Atlantic Ocean.

The giant meteor has fallen south of the Atlantic earlier this month and seems to leave no trace, the British Daily Mail website said.

The incident occurred at about 14:00 UTC on February 6 when a meteorite exploded 1,000 km off the southern coast of Brazil. The explosion, according to NASA, emitted about 13,000 tons of TNT, equivalent to energy in Japan's atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

"The impact of the meteorite explosion (in the Atlantic) is quite small. As a result, you didn't even hear anything about this explosion a few weeks after it happened," Plaits astronomer wrote in one segment. analysis posted on his Slate blog.

A meteorite is about to plunge into the earth's atmosphere.(Photo: Dailymail).

"If a meteorite falls into a densely populated area, it has devastated many homes and scared many people. However, the meteorite explosion has no consequences," said Ron Baalke, a researcher. Other at NASA, said on Twitter social networking site.

The estimated Plaits astronomer is based on the energy of the meteorite explosion in the Atlantic Ocean , it (meteorite) is about 5-7m wide.

Earlier in February 2013, a meteorite explosion in Russia's Chelyabinsk city left more than 1,600 people injured. This meteor is about 18m in diameter, plunging into the Earth's atmosphere at 18,500m / s and most of the meteorite fragments fall into Lake Chebarkul.

The meteorite explosion emits an energy equivalent to 500,000 tons of TNT, nearly 40 times more than the meteorite explosion in the south Atlantic, according to astronomer Phil Plait.

NASA said the organization is tracking 12,992 celestial bodies flying around the solar system in the solar system, of which about 1,607 meteorites are potentially dangerous.

Every year, about 30 small-scale meteorites are burned when they fall into the earth's atmosphere. Because most of the earth's surface is covered with oceans, meteorite falls largely do not affect residential areas, according to NASA.