INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The meteor reportedly crashed on July 25
on July 25.An object, confirmed to be travelling at the speed of 24.4 kilometers per second by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, exploded
with a force of 2.1 kilotons 43 kilometers north of the Thule Air Base, Fox News reports.Taking to his Twitter account, the Director of the
Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen reported the event."The Chelyabinsk event drew
widespread attention to what more needs to be done to detect even larger asteroids before they strike our planet," Lindley Johnson, NASA's
Planetary Defense Officer, was quoted by Fox News as saying.The Chelyabinsk event resulted in the formation of the International Asteroid
Warning Network, an international group of organizations involved in detecting, tracking, and characterizing Near Earth Objects.
