What happened over the Bering Sea? In this case, the Bering Sea fireball was, per Brown, just 10 meters (33 feet) across, although it did weigh about 1,400 tons – as much as 20-and-a-half M1 Abrams battle tanks. It appears Himawari-8 recorded the smoke trail of the Bering Sea meteor, created as it began to burn up in our atmosphere. The Bering Sea event, although energetic, was about a third of that size; the Chelyabinsk meteor was about two-thirds. Could we stop a Bering Sea meteor city-killer asteroid from hitting us?

Source: Forbes March 18, 2019 18:59 UTC